Oregon · Nonprofit
TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON
TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,830 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($269,666). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $340k
What Trailkeepers of Oregon does
Mission
Trailkeepers of Oregon is a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and enhance the oregon hiking experience through stewardship, advocacy, outreach and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Trail stewardship - in 2025, Trailkeepers of Oregon held 467 trail stewardship events, where tko volunteers gave more than 22,000 hours of service to oregon's trails. Trailkeepers maintained, restored, and developed new trails at federal, state, county, and municipal parks across fifteen oregon counties.
$495,743 spent$204,851 earned by the program48% of program spendingEngagement - in 2025, tko hosted 141 ambassador events, including trailhead ambassador stations to welcome hikers to popular trailheads, share information about leave no trace practices, and provide guidance about mitigating visitor impact, as well as wilderness ambassador hikes to promote hiker safety in the backcountry.
$178,046 spent$25,000 earned by the program17% of program spendingTrails summit - the oregon trails coalition, fiscally sponsored by Trailkeepers of Oregon, organized the ninth oregon outdoor recreation summit for organizations across the state.
$322,770 spent$118,780 earned by the program31% of program spendingTraining - in 2025, tko held 44 training events, including chainsaw and crosscut saw certification courses, crew leader training, and tread restoration labs.
$30,231 spent$22,765 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,026,790.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $267k to $121k (−55%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 13% · 2022 16% · 2023 28% · 2024 27% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON’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. 1 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
Steve Kruger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $41k → $107k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON’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
TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
70% 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 TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 73% · 2019 74% · 2020 77% · 2021 71% · 2022 52% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k 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
TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON has grown faster 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 TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record — $1.6M federal, $198k state.
- Department of Agriculture$1.1M
- Department of the Interior$496k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$106k
- OTHER SERVICES$28k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$23k
- PROF DEV DUES/MEMBERSHIP$12k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$9k
- SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS$8k
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 TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON: 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 TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON?
- TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,830 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($269,666). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $794,830 in grants to TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON?
- NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $269,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 22 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