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NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION

NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,711,208 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($375,018). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$8.6M
15/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Neskowin Coast Foundation does

Mission

The sitka center for art and ecology champions access to art and nature for all. We believe that integrating the arts with the sciences is essential for restoring balance in our relationship with the natural world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The sitka center for art and ecology champions access to art and nature for all. Founded in 1970 and located in one of the most scenic and protected areas of the oregon coast, sitka offers educational programs that connect people to creativity, the natural world and one another.1. K-8 create: delivers free art and science education to more than 5,000 students in rural public schools.2. Workshops: for adults in drawing, painting, sculpture, woodworking, fiber and book arts, nature observation, and more - led by over 80 teaching artists each year.

    $1,579,164 spentof which $97,375 as grants$467,401 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. 3. Public talks, exhibits, and annual art invitational: engage broad audiences and showcase the work of over 100 regional artists.4. Residencies: support emerging and established artists, scientists, writers, musicians and interdisciplinary practitioners.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,579,164.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($746k) Net assets 100 ($5.9M)2018 Revenue 72 ($1.1M) Expenses 110 ($823k) Net assets 110 ($6.5M)2019 Revenue 59 ($916k) Expenses 127 ($949k) Net assets 115 ($6.8M)2020 Revenue 31 ($472k) Expenses 109 ($814k) Net assets 115 ($6.8M)2021 Revenue 65 ($1.0M) Expenses 139 ($1.0M) Net assets 123 ($7.2M)2022 Revenue 73 ($1.1M) Expenses 168 ($1.3M) Net assets 111 ($6.6M)2023 Revenue 88 ($1.4M) Expenses 171 ($1.3M) Net assets 119 ($7.0M)2024 Revenue 125 ($1.9M) Expenses 213 ($1.6M) Net assets 129 ($7.6M)2025 Revenue 173 ($2.7M) Expenses 275 ($2.1M) Net assets 146 ($8.6M)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (275)Net assets (146)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.7M to $8.7M (+13%).

$5.9M
$6.5M
$6.8M
$6.8M
$7.3M
$6.6M
$7.1M
$7.7M
$8.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2020 40% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 1% · 2024 13% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$802k
’17
$291k
’18
−$33k
’19
−$341k
’20
−$26k
’21
−$120k
’22
$80k
’23
$339k
’24
$617k
’25
1.6
months of
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

Alison Dennis

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1199128881110
Joined·+3+1+4+1+3+1+7+3
No longer listed·51153144
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $70k → $274k.

5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

32% 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 NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION.

22%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 50% · 2019 59% · 2020 42% · 2021 54% · 2022 42% · 2023 18% — 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

62% of NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

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CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $526k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $394k on record.

State$394k
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  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$210k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$184k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

66%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION?
NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,711,208 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($375,018). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,711,208 in grants to NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION?
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing