Washington · Nonprofit
MADRONA INSTITUTE
MADRONA INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,445 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($74,018). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $217k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Madrona Institute does
Mission
Our primary mission is to engage youth in conservation and stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The coastal salish youth coalition branched off from the Madrona Institute to become its own independent 501(c)(3) non-profit, furthering its mission: empowering indigenous youth through cultural collaboration and enviromental stewardship of traditional foods and ancestral lands. This year's challenge paddle had four canoes on a 5-day journey,carrying all the gear needed-tents, table, even solar showers-without any ground crew, just like their ancestors did. They had 44 pdddlers, including 20 youth and 7 elders, who shared meals of traditional foods like chalem (eelgrass) and q oya:ch (elk) and spent evenings paddling through glowing bioluminescence. Along the way, youth practiced journey protocols, honed their skills as skippers, and participated in workshops on waving and traditional games. The coast salish youth coalition brought their brand new canoe on this journey for her first big trip. The climate compass project got underway. Compass (comprehensive plan outreach for meaningful public action & substainable solutions) is an interactive, informative climate excercise, designed to engage community members in conversation and mutual learning about climate change in san juan…
$58,692 spentof which $26,871 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,692.
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 $85k to $25k (−71%).
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 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MADRONA INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $24k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 MADRONA INSTITUTE’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
MADRONA INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 MADRONA INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2023 42% — 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
25% of MADRONA INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
50% of MADRONA INSTITUTE'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 $109k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MADRONA INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding MADRONA INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $142k on record.
- Department of the Interior$142k
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 MADRONA INSTITUTE
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MADRONA INSTITUTE: 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 MADRONA INSTITUTE?
- MADRONA INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,445 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($74,018). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MADRONA INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $217,445 in grants to MADRONA INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MADRONA INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $74,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MADRONA INSTITUTE 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 11 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