Washington · Nonprofit
SKAGIT LAND TRUST
SKAGIT LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,400,543 to it, the largest being ISLANDS FUND ($1,365,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Skagit Land Trust does
Mission
Skagit Land Trust conserves wildlife habitat, wetlands, agricultural and forest lands, scenic open space, and shoreline for the benefit of our community and as a legacy for future generations of people and wildlife. The trust works throughout the mainland and islands of skagit county, wa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land conservation: projects completed include protecting 128 acres and 1.2 miles of marine shoreline on samish bay via conservation easement (ce); adding 123 acres via ce to a wildlife corridor that ecologically connects skagit river to upland forests near birsdview; protecting 1185 feet of salmon habitat on the cascade river through land purchases; adding land and marine shoreline to the samish island conservation area; and expanding the hurn field conservation area. Work began on 17 other land conservation projects including assisting partners.
$907,920 spent$38,726 earned by the program52% of program spendingStewardship: over 300 volunteers attended one or more of slt's 30 work parties. 52 volunteer land stewards made regular visits to slt properties to assist with their upkeep. Slt partnered with over a dozen organizations to help restore its lands. Dozens of community science volunteers conducted amphibian and great blue heron monitoring. Slt managed big rock and assisted with trail connectivity and planning in anticipation of big rock county park's expansion. Slt continued its work with partners to explore restoration potential of key properties.
$503,123 spent29% of program spendingOutreach and communication: slt lands had over 29,500 visits. Public conservation easements slt conserves had over 143,000 visits. Over 2000 students from local schools visited a slt property or engaged in a program with slt to learn about nature and stewardship. In all slt hosted 28 youth education events and oversaw the kulshan creek neighborhood youth program. Slt hosted dozens of community and member educational events and tours including swanrise viewings which attracted 180 people over a series of weeks. Slt began an on-line speakers series. Slt weighed in on local policies and plans that impact its mission.
$326,012 spent$2,756 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,737,055.
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 $12M to $17M (+42%).
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 13% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 53% · 2021 31% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% · 2024 6% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of SKAGIT LAND TRUST’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 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.
Chief executive
Molly Doran
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $149k → $1.2M.
14 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 SKAGIT LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
SKAGIT LAND TRUST 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 SKAGIT LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 21% · 2019 37% · 2020 58% · 2021 38% · 2022 40% · 2023 43% — 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
61% of SKAGIT LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
SKAGIT LAND TRUST draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SKAGIT LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SKAGIT LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- Department of the Interior$100k
- Department of Agriculture$15k
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 SKAGIT 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 SKAGIT 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 SKAGIT LAND TRUST?
- SKAGIT LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,400,543 to it, the largest being ISLANDS FUND ($1,365,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKAGIT LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,400,543 in grants to SKAGIT LAND TRUST, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKAGIT LAND TRUST?
- ISLANDS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,365,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKAGIT 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.
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 35 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