Idaho · Nonprofit
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO (Idaho) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,770,367 to it, the largest being Hollis Foundation ($1,815,750). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Wood River Land Trust Co does
Mission
The wood river land trust's mission is to protect and sustain the treasured landscapes and life-giving waters of the wood river valley and to inspire love for this special place for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land acquisition/protection land and easement acquisitions in fy 2024-25, wrlt protected the old cutters preserve - a parcel in hailey that buffers and provides access to public lands and will be maintained as a publicly accessible open space preserve. Wrlt also completed the corral farm conservation easement, which protects 160 acres of prime farmland in camas county. Wrlt also went under contract for hailey hot springs ranch and began the fundraising for this acquisition, which closed in the subsequent fiscal year. This property will add 2,700- acres of conservation land to wrlt's holdings and protect critical wetlands and riparian habitat; migration corridors for elk, mule deer, and pronghorn; and protect habitat for sage grouse, moose, and many other species. Project development in 2024-25, wrlt continued to work with willing landowners to develop conservation projects over approximately 9,000 acres collectively, that will conserve wildlife migration corridors, riparian habitat, upland game habitat, critical sage grouse habitat, prime farmland, and areas for public recreation. These projects can take multiple years to develop and are still in progress. Community planning…
$430,588 spent29% of program spendingRiver health & restoration in fy 24-25, wrlt continued the design and planning for river restoration projects within the hailey greenway (heagle park side channel restoration) and completed a restoration project on elkhorn creek to create additional floodplain connection for the creek. Wrlt continued working with the city of hailey, blaine county, and the flood control district 9 to move the restoration design work for lions park at the hailey greenway forward. The goal of this multi-year project is to restore floodplain connectivity and function and mitigate flooding that occurs in communities downstream because of degraded river function. In fiscal year 2021-22, wrlt contributed to the city of ketchum's successful campaign to acquire the warm springs preserve to forever be maintained as a public preserve. This year, wrlt continued working with the city of ketchum to complete the design of the restoration project to restore 1 mile of warm springs creek and its floodplain through the preserve. The city is also planning for universal access improvements and amenities. Construction on the restoration began in fy 2025-26. Wrlt also continued a robust monitoring program to contribute…
$486,329 spent33% of program spendingLand stewardship staff monitored all 46 of the Wood River Land Trust Conservation easements, totaling 13,332 acres to ensure compliance with individual easement restrictions/language and to note any changes in the property. All monitoring data, such as photo points, were reported and entered into the permanent record. Wrlt continued to manage and steward our 19 fee simple properties located in and adjacent to the wood river valley. These preserves are maintained in their natural state and/or restored to a healthy landscape. Stewardship staff addresses such ongoing problems as noxious weeds, trash, unwanted vehicle use, erosion and trail upkeep. Wrlt also continued developing universal access trails at colorado gulch preserve and simons/bauer preserve to allow people of all abilities to access our public preserves. Wrlt also supported the university of idaho's rinker rock creek ranch by partnering on projects to install gates and public access infrastructure to manage access and protect habitat, creek restoration projects, and by providing supplemental funds to support re-seeding and post-fire recovery efforts after the glendale fire burned through the 10,000-acre ranch.
$443,633 spent30% of program spendingCommunity engagement a community that enjoys and loves the land will work to protect it. Research shows the best way to get people to care about the land and our environment is to encourage meaningful experiences in nature. We bring people to the land and educate the community's youth on conservation through programs like hosting field trips at our preserves and hosting volunteer work parties to improve our preserves. Activities this year included a citizen science bird monitoring program in partnership with the cornell lab of ornithology, hosting the annual big wood river clean up, hosting our annual think globally, act locally speaker series to educate the community on conservation and restoration efforts and how they can get involved, and hosting volunteer work parties in wrlt's preserves to improve habitat, remove old barbed wire fencing to prevent wildlife collisions and entanglements with fencing, and manage trails.
$129,969 spentof which $5,775 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,490,519.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 (+44%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO’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. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Roland Wolfram
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $376k → $1.6M.
28 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 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
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
67% 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 WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 25% · 2019 75% · 2020 21% · 2021 39% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% — 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
60% of WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
55% of WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO'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 $6.9M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Idaho, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO 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 WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.0M
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 WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO?
- WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO (Idaho) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,770,367 to it, the largest being Hollis Foundation ($1,815,750). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $15,770,367 in grants to WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO?
- Hollis Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,815,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 134 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