Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,533 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC's revenue grew 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- New York Women's Foundation Incshared funders
- The Rei Foundationportfolio match
- American Trailsportfolio match
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.
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 81% · 2018 51% · 2019 77% · 2020 61% · 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 64% · 2024 38% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC’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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $11.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC’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
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
89% of PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- New York Women's Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- The Rei Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Trailsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas O Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Park Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shenandoah National Park Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gordon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harold S Coleman & Mariam B Coleman Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.6M
- Department of Agriculture$423k
- Department of Transportation$200k
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 PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
Files a return copy in 9 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,533 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $94,533 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC?
- National Park Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing