Oregon · Nonprofit
WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being Gray Family Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $923k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $252k
What Willamette Cascades Community Land Trust does
Mission
Lost valley is a 501c(3) learning center, educating youth and adults in the practical application of sustainable living skills. We take a holistic approach to sustainability education, engaging students in ecological, social and personal growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sustainability education: lost valley offers and hosts events, courses, workshops, etc. Focused on sustainable living- including personal growth skills such as maintaining health of body and mind, social skills such as communication and leadership, and ecological skills such as farming, forestry, natural building, and renewable energy.
$476,626 spent100% of program spendingLow income community housing: lost valley demonstrates and teaches a working model of the social skills, techniques, and processes necessary for communities of people to live in harmony with each other while also providing affordable housing, access to land, and additional services for low-income people.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $476,626.
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 2024 to 2025, from $163k to $482k (+196%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’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. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $6k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’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
WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $346k on record.
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$340k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$6k
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 WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY 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 WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being Gray Family Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,500 in grants to WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- Gray Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLAMETTE CASCADES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST 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.
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 2 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