Washington · Nonprofit
ON SACRED GROUND
ON SACRED GROUND (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,104 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($39,899). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $-7808
What On Sacred Ground does
Mission
Education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Island Marble Butterfly Captive Rearing Program - Over 200 butterflies reared to support federally listed endangered species. 102 pupae successfully released into wild from the 2023 rearing season and 124 pupae prepared and inventoried to over winter for the 2025 release season. Benefits primarily 11,000 people on San Juan and Lopez Island.
$82,230 spent66% of program spendingMentors to Mentors Program- Benefits underserved youth in ecologically degraded areas. Program directly served 50 high school and colleged-aged students and impacted 200 supporting participants. Program facilitated and developed environmental leadership skills.
$30,952 spent25% of program spendingIsland Marble Butterfly Volunteer Program - Supports the establishment, maintenance and monitoring of island marble butterfly habitat. Island Marble Butterfly is a federally listed endangered species with habitat loss as one of its primary causes of decline. Impacts 11,000 residents on San Juan and Lopez Island, and 100-200 volunteers annually.
$11,452 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $124,634.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $3k to $0 (−100%).
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.
40% of ON SACRED GROUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sarah Hanson
Executive Director
Board chair
Joe Hessenius
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $5.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 ON SACRED GROUND’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
ON SACRED GROUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 ON SACRED GROUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ON SACRED GROUND draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ON SACRED GROUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding ON SACRED GROUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $313k on record.
- Department of the Interior$313k
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 ON SACRED GROUND
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ON SACRED GROUND: 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 ON SACRED GROUND?
- ON SACRED GROUND (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,104 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($39,899). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ON SACRED GROUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $96,104 in grants to ON SACRED GROUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ON SACRED GROUND?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $39,899 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ON SACRED GROUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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