Washington · Nonprofit
Stewardship Partners
Stewardship Partners (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,386,609 to it, the largest being THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($507,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Stewardship Partners does
Mission
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection, economic health, and community well-being. Our projects restore fish & wildlife habitat, improve water quality, protect open spaces and "green up" the built environment while maintaining the working landscape of farms, forestland and livable communities throughout the state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Snoqualmie Stewardship Program coordinates hands-on restoration, educational activities and community participation in the Snoqualmie Valley in order to restore habitat and maintain the economic viability of farms and forestland while helping landowners restore fish and wildlife habitat.
$415,748 spent$6,988 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe Green Infrastructure program promotes low-impact development for innovative stormwater management.
$599,402 spentof which $45,412 as grants$17,579 earned by the program59% of program spendingThe Salmon-Safe Agriculture Certification Program is a certification and marketing program for farming practices that protect water quality and habitat for salmon and other fish and wildlife.
$4,296 spent$2,250 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,019,446.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+30%).
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 17% · 2018 18% · 2019 40% · 2020 17% · 2021 52% · 2022 36% · 2023 52% · 2024 44% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Stewardship Partners’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. 2 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
David Burger
Executive Director
Board chair
Bryan Haakenson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $130k → $72k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Stewardship Partners’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
Stewardship Partners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Stewardship Partners.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 60% · 2019 36% · 2020 48% · 2021 60% · 2022 46% · 2023 26% — 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
37% of Stewardship Partners'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
95% of Stewardship Partners's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $527k 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
Stewardship Partners runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Stewardship Partners
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Stewardship Partners?
- Stewardship Partners (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,386,609 to it, the largest being THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($507,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Stewardship Partners have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,386,609 in grants to Stewardship Partners, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Stewardship Partners?
- THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $507,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Stewardship Partners 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 25 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