Washington · Nonprofit
NISQUALLY LAND TRUST
NISQUALLY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,109 to it, the largest being PUGET SOUND ENERGY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Nisqually Land Trust does
Mission
Permanent protection of land and water for fish, wildlife, and people in the nisqually watershed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land acquisition-acquire and permanently protect important conservation lands and shorelines in the nisqually river watershed and coastal areas contributing to the nisqually reach.
$127,969 spent$13,427 earned by the program12% of program spendingLand restoration and stewardship- restore and maintain the conservation and scenic values of lands acquired for protection.
$772,296 spent$809,619 earned by the program75% of program spendingOutreach and education- educate the public about conservation in the nisqually river watershed and involve them in volunteer stewardship opportunities.
$128,728 spent$2,000 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,028,993.
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 2021 to 2022, from $45M to $49M (+10%).
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 86% · 2018 70% · 2019 67% · 2020 71% · 2021 88% · 2022 66% · 2023 58% · 2024 53% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of NISQUALLY LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jeanette Dorner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $100k → $119k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 NISQUALLY LAND 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
NISQUALLY LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 NISQUALLY LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 80% · 2019 82% · 2020 51% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — 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
44% of NISQUALLY LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
NISQUALLY LAND TRUST draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $471k 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
NISQUALLY LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NISQUALLY LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $223k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$183k
- Department of the Interior$40k
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 NISQUALLY LAND 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nisqually Community Forest · disregarded
- Nisqually Delta Environmental Mitigation Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NISQUALLY LAND 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 NISQUALLY LAND TRUST?
- NISQUALLY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,109 to it, the largest being PUGET SOUND ENERGY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NISQUALLY LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,419,109 in grants to NISQUALLY LAND TRUST, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NISQUALLY LAND TRUST?
- PUGET SOUND ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NISQUALLY LAND TRUST 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 23 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