Washington · Nonprofit
WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST
WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,041,213 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($736,765). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Whidbey Camano Land Trust does
Mission
The mission of the Whidbey Camano Land Trust is to protect, restore and create access to forests, shorelines, farmlands and other habitats in island county and the salish sea, for ecological and community resilience and the benefit of all living things.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land protection:our efforts to protect land in 2025 resulted in seven completed projects consisting of transactions totaling 371 acres. Of those seven projects, all were fee land acquisitions with four having restrictive easements sold to the navy simultaneous to closing. The land trust acquired three properties to complete the original vision for the lagoon point forest, formally creating a 264-acre community forest that will be opened to the public in 2029. We also expanded the keystone preserve, protecting a vital conservation corridor to support wildlife movement between keystone and forested lands to the north. Other notable projects include protecting an additional 65 acres as part of the holmes harbor community forest vision, bringing the total land trust owned property within the project area to 150 acres along with purchasing a 65-acre forest property located halfway between lagoon point forest and south whidbey state park, protecting high quality wildlife habitat within an identified conservation corridor. Lastly, we acquired 30 acres adjacent to the holmes harbor community forest, which we plan to resell subject to a conservation easement that will protect the…
$1,059,004 spent$167,380 earned by the program43% of program spendingStewardship:keystone preserve continued to be the primary restoration area in 2025 with the planting of 15 acres of native plants. Spring weeding and summer watering within the restoration area resulted in a 98 percent survival rate of the 14,000 plants. Construction of 0.7 miles of wheelchair accessible trail was completed at keystone preserve. Restoration work at our admiralty inlet preserve and strawberry point preserve was very active with new plantings and noxious weed removal projects. Extensive blackberry removal also occurred at the dugualla heights restoration project. Noxious weed removal took place across both islands. A new phase of salmon restoration work began at our kristoferson creek preserve on camano. 628 volunteers completed 8,740 hours of service through work parties and independent projects. Highest year yet with over 60 group work parties held at various land trust preserves. Volunteers and staff monitored, maintained, and enhanced trails across all land trust public access sites. Annual monitoring was completed on all conservation easement properties.
$972,463 spent$18,621 earned by the program39% of program spendingCommunications and outreach:members received eleven e-newsletters with conservation updates, along with more than 32 additional digital communications. We also posted to our social media platforms 2-3 times per week. We produced and distributed four printed newsletters, including our impact report, as well as 26 additional print pieces such as invitations, cards, flyers, activity sheets, and posters. We also hosted our annual calendar photo contest and produced the 2025 calendar, which was distributed through 15 community vendors. Over the course of the year, we hosted more than 55 events and activities, connecting over 1,800 people to the land. These included our 10th annual sea, trees and pie bike ride, two meet-and-mingle events, a member picnic on camano island, a volunteer appreciation bbq, a legacy circle bbq, a holiday open house, and orca recovery day at keystone farm and forest. Our connecting kids to conservation program engaged more than 1,200 students from 8 island county schools through field-based learning on preserves, hands-on classroom and outdoor activities, guided walks, and stewardship experiences.
$432,934 spent$237,376 earned by the program18% of program spendingAccreditation: every four years, since becoming accredited in 2012, we re-apply for accreditation with the land trust accreditation commission, an independent program of the national land trust alliance. As part of the renewal, we are required to submit updated policies and procedures, as well as detailed documentation on select projects. These submissions are used to illustrate our compliance with the standards and practices established by the land trust alliance, show that we adhere to our own policies and procedures, and emphasize our commitment to protecting important natural places and working lands forever.
$835 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,465,236.
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 $20M to $29M (+45%).
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 24% · 2018 15% · 2019 18% · 2020 15% · 2021 5% · 2022 39% · 2023 74% · 2024 44% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Ryan Elting
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $494k → $489k.
13 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
85% 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 WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — 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
46% of WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
63% of WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.5M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin 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 WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
- Department of the Interior$25k
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.
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: 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 WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST?
- WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,041,213 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($736,765). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,041,213 in grants to WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $736,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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