Washington · Nonprofit
LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,565,873 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,938,350). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Lopez Community Land Trust does
Mission
Lclt is a 501(c)3 non-profit that builds a diverse, sustainable lopez island community through affordable housing, sustainable agriculture, and other dynamic rural development programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Affordable housingover the past several decades, the character of lopez has changed significantly. Sjc has the largest housing affordability gap in wa state, with some of the state's highest housing costs and lowest wages. In response to the growing need for permanently affordable housing, the lclt was established in 1989.today, lclt owns and stewards roughly 37.5 acres of land dedicated to affordable housing. These properties include seven limited equity housing cooperatives (lehcs) comprising 53 homes, one fee simple home, and seven rental units. Lclt develops each affordable home and, upon completion, transfers ownership of the homes to either the applicable lehc association or, in the case of a fee simple home, to an individual homeowner. Lclt permanently retains ownership of the land beneath each home and leases it to the lehc association or homeowner through a renewable 99-year ground lease, ensuring the homes remain permanently affordable for future generations. During 2025, lclt completed construction of its seventh lehc neighborhood, consisting of six homes. Ownership of the homes was transferred to the newly formed oystercatcher association in november. By year-end, lclt…
$2,798,844 spent$214,014 earned by the program94% of program spendingSustainable agriculture and rural developmentthe sustainable agriculture and rural development (sard) program of the lclt is committed to strengthening our local food network by purchasing and stewarding working farms, supporting local food security initiatives and encouraging ecologically sound rural development related to water, transportation and solar energy. Lclt's current sard programs include managing an ev carshare, coordinating a grain community supported agriculture (csa), producing a biennial publication of the lopez farm products guide, hosting regular harvest dinners, coordinating interns to learn with and assist local farmers, and managing the lopez island farm trust (lift). The lift program currently consists of 3 working farms (roughly 106 acres) which were acquired in 2017, 2020, and 2024 respectively. The land is leased to the farmers who live and work on the properties.
$168,362 spentof which $7,839 as grants$12,874 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,967,206.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $8.8M to $11M (+29%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2023 21% · 2024 39% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Sandy Bishop
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $208k → $200k.
9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’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
LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 36% · 2020 77% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 37% — 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
56% of LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST'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 $322k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
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.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: 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 LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,565,873 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,938,350). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,565,873 in grants to LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,938,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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