Washington · Nonprofit
SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION
SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,378,658 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($433,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $856k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Sacred Earth Foundation does
Mission
To actively love the upper rock creek watershed and share in transformative learning, stewardship, and growth with people at every stage of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Green burial services. White eagle memorial preserve, one of just 10 conservation burial grounds in the nation, offers a simple, natural way to return our bodies to the earth on wild land.
$65,237 spent$103,151 earned by the program11% of program spendingLand conservation & stewardship. Sacred Earth Foundation protects 1,263 acres of the rock creek watershed, the most important waterway in eastern klickitat county, an expanse of oak/pine forest, meadows, ponds, and canyonlands.
$75,040 spentof which $5,000 as grants$6,747 earned by the program13% of program spendingEducational programs. Ekone summer camp immerses children into life on the ranch, with spacious play, meaningful work, inclusive community, and natural learning. Additional school field trips, workshops, retreats, community celebrations and service opportunities for children, adults and families build skills, community and connection to self and place.
$459,065 spent$318,840 earned by the program77% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $599,342.
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 2017 to 2018, from $505k to $1.8M (+259%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 21% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION’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 8 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
Shonie Schlotzhauer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $37k → $156k.
8 of 21 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 SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION’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
SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 72% · 2019 39% · 2020 25% · 2021 28% · 2022 53% · 2023 34% — 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
67% of SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
65% of SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION: 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 SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION?
- SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,378,658 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($433,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,378,658 in grants to SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $433,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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