Oregon · Nonprofit
McKenzie River Trust
McKenzie River Trust (Oregon) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,288,153 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,251,230). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $26M
What McKenzie River Trust does
Mission
Acquire and manage land and conservation easements through purchase and donation to ensure long term conservation of clean water, fish and wildlife habitat, and other community values.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land conservation programsacquisition of land or interest in land through purchases or donations from willing landowners. Management and restoration activities on approximately 5,469 acres of owned lands in western oregon. The trust also monitored 38 conservation easements covering 5,145 acres throughout the service area.conduct educational and informational meetings with landowners and conservation partners throughout service area. Participate in strategic conservation planning efforts with agency and other partners in western oregon.
$4,328,957 spentof which $404,632 as grants89% of program spendingPublic outreach programsconduct tours of owned properties and easements for the public. Publish materials about land protection and restoration, and participate in statewide land conservation efforts. Share images and stories from mrt lands through the media, and represent the values of land conservation in community meetings. Work with community members and community support organizations working to stabilize and rebuild the mckenzie valley after the september 2020 holiday farm fire.
$550,331 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,879,288.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $26M (+59%).
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 69% · 2019 36% · 2021 15% · 2022 21% · 2023 33% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of McKenzie River Trust’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $559k → $774k.
11 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 McKenzie River Trust’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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
McKenzie River Trust has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 McKenzie River Trust.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 56% · 2019 66% · 2020 30% · 2021 57% · 2022 35% · 2023 36% — 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
58% of McKenzie River Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
63% of McKenzie River 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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
McKenzie River Trust runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding McKenzie River Trust receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record — $2.3M federal, $1.4M state.
- Department of Commerce$1.7M
- Department of Agriculture$371k
- Department of the Interior$180k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.4M
- LAND>=$5K$10k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$2k
- PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$2k
- OTHER SERVICES$1k
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 McKenzie River 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
80% 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 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for McKenzie River 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 McKenzie River Trust?
- McKenzie River Trust (Oregon) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,288,153 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,251,230). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does McKenzie River Trust have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $6,288,153 in grants to McKenzie River Trust, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of McKenzie River Trust?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,251,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like McKenzie River 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 53 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