Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON WATER TRUST
WASHINGTON WATER TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,280,502 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,630,412). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Washington Water Trust does
Mission
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. Washington Water Trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more recently, in strategic watersheds in oregon using a collaborative approach. The outcome we seek is healthy river habitat that supports fish and wildlife, public recreation and a better quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule owwt keeps water in stream throughout washington state using a number of strategies. Water rights program: we lease and buy water from water rights holders, temporarily or permanently to leave instream, to improve and protect flows, especially during periods that are critical to the survival of imperiled salmon and steelhead. Washington Water Trust also works to develop innovative solutions with water rights holders who are looking for a more cost-effective ways to use their water. Drawing from an extensive network of partnerships with agricultural producers, conservation districts, irrigation districts, land trusts, landowners, legal experts, hydrogeologists, state agencies and other stakeholders, as well as with sovereign tribes, Washington Water Trust is able to bring to the table balanced, mutually beneficial ideas that are proven to work.water rights acquisition and transferin washington, water rights represent legal authority granted by the state government for water right holders to withdraw surface or ground water for multiple uses. Water rights identify the source of water withdrawal, how it may be used, when it can be diverted, how much can be diverted, and…
$2,693,873 spent$2,265,043 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,693,873.
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 $1.4M to $2.3M (+66%).
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: 2019 60% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 45% · 2023 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of WASHINGTON WATER TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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
James Kraft
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $655k → $757k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 WATER TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 funders by total. 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 WATER TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 WATER TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 90% · 2019 88% · 2020 57% · 2021 45% · 2022 55% · 2023 68% — 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
63% of WASHINGTON WATER TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
WASHINGTON WATER TRUST draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $577k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 WATER TRUST's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WASHINGTON WATER TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88k on record.
- Department of the Interior$88k
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 WATER TRUST
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 WATER TRUST?
- WASHINGTON WATER TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,280,502 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,630,412). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON WATER TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $6,280,502 in grants to WASHINGTON WATER TRUST, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON WATER TRUST?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,630,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON WATER TRUST 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 27 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