Washington · Nonprofit
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,113,550 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,853,786). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $42M
What Opal Community Land Trust does
Mission
The mission of Opal Community Land Trust is to help sustain orcas island as a healthy, economically diverse community by providing permanently affordable homes and related education and support for islanders-families, seniors and singles - whose housing needs are not met by the traditional market.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing development: develop land and houses to rent or own that are affordable to low to moderate income households. Provide housing counseling and related support services.
$180,284 spent$280,465 earned by the program14% of program spendingLoan programs: provide loans to eligible households to enable them to purchase a home.
$70,732 spent$78,297 earned by the program6% of program spendingLeasehold stewardship: lease land and provide support services to homeowners who lease land from opal.
$212,707 spent$198,470 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$807,416 spent$618,750 earned by the program64% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,271,139.
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 2024 to 2025, from $38M to $48M (+26%).
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 3% · 2018 22% · 2019 17% · 2020 29% · 2021 7% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% · 2024 36% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $327k → $2.7M.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 62% · 2019 60% · 2020 62% · 2021 47% · 2022 62% · 2023 72% — 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
53% of OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
93% of OPAL COMMUNITY LAND 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 $842k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like OPAL COMMUNITY 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
72% 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
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Lavender Hollow LLC · disregarded
- April's Grove Gp LLC · disregarded
- Northern Heights LLC · disregarded
- April's Grove Lllp · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPAL COMMUNITY 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 OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,113,550 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,853,786). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $12,113,550 in grants to OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,853,786 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPAL COMMUNITY 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 32 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