Washington · Nonprofit
Washington Trust For Historic Preservation
Washington Trust For Historic Preservation (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $967,958 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($475,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $968k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Washington Trust For Historic Preservation does
Mission
The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the places that matter in Washington State and to promoting sustainable and economically viable communities through historic preservation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Looking back, 2024 was a year of milestones, as the Washington Trust team worked to promote historic preservation, community placemaking, and cultural heritage in towns across the state.Advocacy remained a cornerstone of our work. We made our annual sojourn to Washington, D.C., for Preservation Advocacy Week, meeting with our states Congressional representatives to support federal preservation policies and funding. At the state level, we continued our work with lawmakers to showcase the importance of preservation as a valuable economic development tool. In partnership with the Department of Archeology & Historic Preservation (DAHP), we supervised capital grant programs for historic barns, county courthouses, cemeteries, and theaters. We added three new listings to Washington's Most Endangered Places: the Ryan House in Sumner, a historic log cabin in Langley, and the Coupeville Wharf.Our programs had stellar years as well. The Washington State Main Street Program, a DAHP program administered by the Washington Trust, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2024. The Main Street network overall grew to 77 towns and cities with the addition of one new Community (Snohomish) and ?ve new…
$1,670,958 spent$464,773 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,670,958.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.6M to $3.1M (+20%).
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 51% · 2018 47% · 2019 47% · 2020 48% · 2021 58% · 2022 55% · 2023 57% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Washington Trust For Historic Preservation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $219k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Trust For Historic Preservation’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 Trust For Historic Preservation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 Washington Trust For Historic Preservation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 74% · 2022 89% · 2023 46% — 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
44% of Washington Trust For Historic Preservation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
71% of Washington Trust For Historic Preservation's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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 Trust For Historic Preservation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Washington Trust For Historic Preservation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record — $3.1M federal, $1k state.
- Department of the Interior$3.0M
- Department of Agriculture$157k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1k
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 Washington Trust For Historic Preservation
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 Washington Trust For Historic Preservation: 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 Washington Trust For Historic Preservation?
- Washington Trust For Historic Preservation (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $967,958 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($475,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Washington Trust For Historic Preservation have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $967,958 in grants to Washington Trust For Historic Preservation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Washington Trust For Historic Preservation?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Washington Trust For Historic Preservation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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