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STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS
STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,673 to it, the largest being HAZEL MILLER FOUNDATION ($45,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $330k
What Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force Dba Sound Salmon Solutions does
Mission
To ensure the future of salmon in the stillaguamish and snohomish river basins and island county watersheds.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Habitat program: in 2024, sound salmon solutions worked on 19 habitat restoration and enhancement projects throughout the snohomish, stillaguamish, and island watersheds to improve water quality and salmon habitat. With the help of staff, volunteers, interns, and students, sound salmon solutions controlled 17.29 acres of invasive vegetation and planted 14,117 native trees and shrubs on 4.99 linear miles.
$586,296 spent$11,142 earned by the program78% of program spendingEducation and hatchery programs:our hatchery located at the willow creek salmon and watershed education center raised 80,000 coho salmon which were then released into 9 local tributaries within lake washington and puget sound watersheds. Volunteers helped with every stage of the salmon rearing process, giving over 1892 hours in the year 2024.in 2024, sss engaged 7226 youth and adults in lessons that forged a connection between the community and salmon recovery while empowering participants to make positive changes for the future of pacific salmon.our salmon in schools program brought coho salmon to 26 schools where students raised them from the egg to fry stage while learning the importance of salmon to our ecosystem, economy, and culture in washington. Students then joined sss educators on a field trip where they released their salmon into a local stream.sss partnered with the snohomish county juvenile court to provide the youth exploring stream science (yess) program. Yess engages youth from the scjc diversion program in meaningful and hands-on watershed science experiences. Youth who qualify for diversion programs have been charged with a crime and sentenced to detention,…
$155,836 spent21% of program spendingStewardship program:in 2024 sss's volunteer programs engaged nearly 300 community members of all ages in salmon recovery. These volunteers directly contributed to salmon recovery by assisting with every stage of the salmon-rearing process at our hatchery in edmonds and contributed to restoring salmon spawning habitat through riparian restoration. Additionally, our edmonds stewards program, which is funded by the city of edmonds, engaged trained volunteers and community members in the restoration of city of edmonds parks that include traditional salmon habitat or old growth forest. These trained volunteers act as leaders in stewardship and lead weekly public events that educate the community on the importance of removing invasive vegetation and planting native trees and shrubs. Sss's 2024 volunteer programs contributed over 1892 volunteer hours of service and inspired countless others to take the individual actions they can to improve salmon populations.furthermore, sss provided education and outreach opportunities for the greater community at tabling events such as festivals, school science nights, and city events throughout the stillaguamish and snohomish watersheds. These events…
$11,753 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $753,885.
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 2022 to 2023, from $229k to $412k (+80%).
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 60% · 2018 95% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 92% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mary L Brueggeman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $28k → $2k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS’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
STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 93% · 2019 73% · 2020 91% · 2021 73% · 2022 85% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS?
- STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,673 to it, the largest being HAZEL MILLER FOUNDATION ($45,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $144,673 in grants to STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS?
- HAZEL MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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