Grand Staircase Escalante Partners
“Promote stewardship and education for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.”
1 live lawsuit, 70 cents of every dollar to the work.
The origin
How they started
Grand Staircase Escalante Partners, founded in 2004 in the small town of Escalante, is the local nonprofit watching over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the BLM’s largest at roughly 1.87 million acres. It funds science, runs restoration like pulling invasive Russian olive from the banks of the Escalante River, and helped build the Escalante River Watershed Partnership. It stood by the monument through the 2017 boundary cuts that halved it and the 2021 restoration.
Follow the dollar
70 cents of every dollar goes to the work
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$696,419 programs, $206,044 management, $98,632 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The backers
Backed, each with its source, by Patagonia Org, Conservation Lands Foundation, Utah Humanities Council and 5 others, latest filing FY25.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. If it’s out of date, tell us. Work at GSEP? Claim this page.
Those 155 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If GSEP is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Find your way inThe record
The court record
The filings
13 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year as filed. Point at or tap the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $86,714 |
| 2012 | $510,204 |
| 2014 | $565,404 |
| 2015 | $1,165,476 |
| 2016 | $1,376,720 |
| 2017 | $2,134,821 |
| 2018 | $1,178,491 |
| 2019 | $914,471 |
| 2020 | $735,814 |
| 2021 | $744,616 |
| 2022 | $746,972 |
| 2023 | $693,921 |
| 2025 | $942,167 |
From $87K in 2011 to $942K in FY25, across 13 public filings (none on record for 2013 and 2024). 2017, at $2.1M, stands well above the other years on file.
The returns as e-filed with the IRS, 3 years:
- FY2025Download the return
- FY2024Download the return
- FY2023Download the return
Source: IRS Form 990 e-file data, each return by its IRS object id, served by ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. A year in the chart without a link here is read from a later return’s own history table; its return is on ProPublica’s page for the group.
Their ground
The places they defend
See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.
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Ways in
How to help
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