Oregon · Nonprofit
Lower Nehalem Community Trust
Lower Nehalem Community Trust (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,739 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($234,934). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $472k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $582k
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Lower Nehalem Community Trust does
Mission
The Lower Nehalem Community Trust preserves land and nurtures conservation values in partnership with an engaged community in the nehalem region of the oregon coast.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization assists landowners and local communities to preserve land of ecological value. The organization supports native plant recovery and the restoration of habitats and ecosystems by removing invasive species and planting native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous vegetation on conserved lands. Most of this work is achieved through the efforts of volunteer community members, school groups, and partner organizations. The organization also develops management plans for all lands held in conservation and monitors those properties on a regular basis.
$208,031 spent65% of program spendingThe organization operates a community garden program at its alder creek farm location. Principles of organic and permaculture gardening are taught to volunteers through hands-on learning. They cultivate fruits and vegetables that are shared with other volunteers and donated to the local food bank and senior lunch programs. The garden infrastructure includes a barn, greenhouse, hoop house and irrigation system. To support the vegetable garden and fruit orchard crops.
$63,307 spent20% of program spendingThe organization hosts a variety of education and outreach programs for all ages annually. Programs include tours, hikes, and paddles and cover topics such as gardening, local ecology, and conservation. The organization hosts an annual migratory bird festival for all ages with partner organizations and local biologists, providing educational information and activities to raise awareness about migrations in the north oregon coast region. Biennial estuary cleanups provide hands-on exposure to the estuary ecosystem while removing debris that degrades the estuary habitat
$48,234 spent$5,059 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,572.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.0M to $4.4M (+12%).
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: 2019 28% · 2020 5% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Lower Nehalem Community Trust’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $90k → $37k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Lower Nehalem Community 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
Lower Nehalem Community Trust leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Lower Nehalem Community Trust.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 79% · 2019 73% · 2020 34% · 2021 48% · 2022 41% · 2023 49% — broadly stable.
“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 Lower Nehalem Community Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
72% of Lower Nehalem Community 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 $163k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $419k 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
Lower Nehalem Community Trust runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Lower Nehalem Community Trust receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $144k on record — $67k federal, $76k state.
- Department of the Interior$67k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$71k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$5k
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$704
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Lower Nehalem Community 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lower Nehalem Community 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 Lower Nehalem Community Trust?
- Lower Nehalem Community Trust (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,739 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($234,934). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lower Nehalem Community Trust have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $581,739 in grants to Lower Nehalem Community Trust, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lower Nehalem Community Trust?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $234,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lower Nehalem Community Trust find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 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