Washington · Nonprofit
MT ADAMS INSTITUTE
MT ADAMS INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,842 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($95,900). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $288k
- Net assets
- $929k
What Mt Adams Institute does
Mission
To strengthen the connection between people and the natural world through education, service learning, career development and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sense of place lecture series provided 11 lectures that wre viewed by over 8000 people interested in learning about people's connections to the columbia river gorge.
$70,474 spent8% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$1,151 spent0% of program spendingVetswork is a career development program for military veterans interested in public lands/natural resources management careers. The program is supported by a grant from the corporation for national and community services (americorps) and partners such as noaa, lower columbia estuaries partnership, mid klamath watershed council, ca department of fish and wildlife, us fish and wildlife service, and the ottawa, mark twain, tongass, and chugach national forests. 12 participants were engaged in the program in alaska, california, michigan, missouri, oregon, and washington. Their collective impact includes 11,899 hours of volunteer service, over 100 recreation sites maintained, 75 miles of hiking trail maintained, 114 recreation facilities maintained or improved, 839 students engaged with environmental education and projects, 361 trees planted, 368 trees planted, 368 miles of aquatic and riparian habitat improved or surveyed, 10,500 species surveyed, and 12,000 salmon spawned.
$737,001 spent87% of program spendingThe institute rents facility space to various organizations and schools to further the educational purposes of their programs. In 2024, the university of washington hosted classes at our facilities with approximately 125 participants
$37,760 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $846,386.
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 2020 to 2021, from $674k to $858k (+27%).
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 82% · 2018 82% · 2019 82% · 2020 80% · 2021 85% · 2022 95% · 2023 97% · 2024 92% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MT ADAMS INSTITUTE’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. 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.
Chief executive
Aaron Stanton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $3k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 MT ADAMS 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
MT ADAMS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 MT ADAMS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 43% · 2019 71% · 2020 47% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of MT ADAMS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
58% of MT ADAMS INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.
Against its field
MT ADAMS INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MT ADAMS INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.3M on record — $19.2M federal, $17k state.
- Department of Agriculture$8.9M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$8.5M
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
- Department of the Interior$642k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$17k
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 MT ADAMS 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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MT ADAMS 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 MT ADAMS INSTITUTE?
- MT ADAMS INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,842 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($95,900). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MT ADAMS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $287,842 in grants to MT ADAMS INSTITUTE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MT ADAMS INSTITUTE?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $95,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MT ADAMS 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.
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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 12 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