Washington · Nonprofit
PROPAGATIONNATION
PROPAGATIONNATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,600 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($63,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Propagationnation does
Mission
To foster the propagation and growth of trees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Tree propagation and distribution. Propagationnation is an intergenerational movement to renew the environment by planting coast redwoods and giant sequoias in the pacific northwest. We contract with nurseries to have redwood and sequoia seedlings grown and either sell or give those seedlings to individuals and organizations to plant those seedlings to reforest the northwest with redwood and sequoia trees. This program produces earned income. 40,000 trees were distributed in the planting season fall 2024-spring 2025 and 40,000 more trees were distributed in the planting season fall 2025-spring 2026.
$57,584 spent99% of program spendingSchools. This program is education outreach to involve students at all levels in the education and planting of coast redwood and giant sequoia trees. In 2025 this program involved olympia middle school students in planting 15 coast redwoods on a tree farm south of elma, wa, and 36 first-year students at saint martin's university in planting 6 coast redwood and 6 giant sequoia trees on their campus in lacey, wa. In both cases education about the environmental importance of redwoods and sequoias was provided.
$500 spentof which $500 as grants1% of program spendingGps map. This program is designed to create a gps map of all of the coast redwoods and giant sequoias in the pacific northwest, as well as a gps map of all the redwoods and sequoias distributed by Propagationnation. There was very little activity in 2025 due to lack of staff.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,084.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $47k to $74k (+58%).
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.
100% of PROPAGATIONNATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12 → $19k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 PROPAGATIONNATION’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
PROPAGATIONNATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PROPAGATIONNATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of PROPAGATIONNATION'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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
PROPAGATIONNATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROPAGATIONNATION
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.
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROPAGATIONNATION: 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 PROPAGATIONNATION?
- PROPAGATIONNATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,600 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($63,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROPAGATIONNATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $95,600 in grants to PROPAGATIONNATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROPAGATIONNATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $63,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROPAGATIONNATION 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 2024–2025), 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