Washington · Nonprofit
Issaquah Alps Trails Club
Issaquah Alps Trails Club (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,712 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($106,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $194k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $377k
What Issaquah Alps Trails Club does
Mission
Organizations Exempt Purpose The mission of the Issaquah Alps Trails Club (IATC) is to engage the public to preserve, protect, and promote the land, wildlife, and trails of the Issaquah Alps for present and future generations. Our Board of Trustees, volunteers, and Executive Director are serving this mission and working to promote advocacy programs to protect not only the trails, but the open spaces through which they run. Program services Our advocacy and outreach work takes many forms that promote public awareness and enjoyment of the Issaquah Alps, including but not limited to: - Advocating for the acquisition and conservation of public open space. - Working with community groups to provide consultation and training for organizing effective advocacy campaigns. - Engaging the public on conservation efforts by leading and facilitating educational hikes, maintaining trails, leading habitat restoration events, and partnering with land management agencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Land Conservation Advocacy and Outreach to Promote the Issquah Alps - See Schedule O
$71,829 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,829.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $200k to $359k (+80%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kim Ngo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $35k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Issaquah Alps Trails Club’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Issaquah Alps Trails Club leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Issaquah Alps Trails Club.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 55% · 2022 88% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Issaquah Alps Trails Club's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of Issaquah Alps Trails Club's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $59k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Issaquah Alps Trails Club
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Issaquah Alps Trails Club: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Issaquah Alps Trails Club?
- Issaquah Alps Trails Club (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,712 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($106,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Issaquah Alps Trails Club have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $207,712 in grants to Issaquah Alps Trails Club, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Issaquah Alps Trails Club?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $106,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Issaquah Alps Trails Club find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing