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WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED
WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,289 to it, the largest being Folley Family Foundation ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Washington Council of Trout Unlimited does
Mission
Primary expempt purpose: as part of trout unlimited, the washington council shares the mission to conserve, protect, and restore north america's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. The washington council works in the state of washington to help fulfill this mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conservation science and monitoring:1. Support program efforts to identify, locate, and assess fish migration barriers in partnership with washington department of fish and wildlife (wdfw), the tulalip tribes, and other partners2. Conduct spawning surveys of steelhead and coho salmon on the white salmon river in partnership with wdfw3. Developing and evaluating means to prevent the highly toxic tire chemical 6ppd-q from entering salmonid spawning streamsthese are statewide conservation benefits
$53,545 spent44% of program spendingAdvocacy: advocating for fish and fishable waters through advocacy by primarily apprising membership and legislators of issues facing cold water fisheries conservation. This is a statewide conservation benefit.
$26,651 spent22% of program spendingMember growth & engagement:providing support and guidance to washington state tu chapters through member growth and engagement with direct spending to reach and inform members and prospective members.
$6,933 spent6% of program spendingOther programs consist of youth education.
$33,518 spent28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,647.
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 2021 to 2022, from $143k to $178k (+24%).
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.
90% of WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $181.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED’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
WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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
WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED
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.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED?
- WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,289 to it, the largest being Folley Family Foundation ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $64,289 in grants to WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED?
- Folley Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF TROUT UNLIMITED 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 5 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