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Bonneville Environmental Foundation
We bring together partners across all sectors of society to co-create innovative solutions that address climate challenges primarily by restoring freshwater ecosystems and catalyzing a renewable energy future for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $19,330,616 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $23,498,704 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,168,088 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $877k
- $250k+15 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $4,006,878 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $3,159,228 |
| COCOPAH TRIBAL NATION | $2,500,000 |
| COLUMBIA BASIN CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $1,500,000 |
| NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $999,267 |
| TAKING CARE OF TEXAS DBA TEXAN BY NATURE | $879,431 |
| SANTA CLARA RIVER CONSERVANCY | $754,580 |
| CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT | $738,628 |
| SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION | $608,200 |
| DESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY | $545,195 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $519,000 |
| WATERORG | $375,100 |
| LEWIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT AREA | $270,800 |
| CARMICHAEL WATER DISTRICT | $250,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $4.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: POLLINATOR GARDENS LIMMAT RIVER WATERSHED · RIVER VARTRY ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION · HYDROLOGICAL STUDY - LIFE ATLANTIC VALLEYS
Stated purpose: RESTORATION OF TAMAN AMAN PARKLAKE PROJECT · WINGECARRIBEE RIVER POST-FIRE RESTORATION
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING SERVICES · QUWUTSUN-XWULQWSELU WHOLE OF WATERSHED HEALTH PROJECT · BEF CONTRIBUTION TO RESILIENT WATERS PROJECT OPPORTUNITY GRANT
Stated purpose: IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY PROJECT IN MUSI-KRISHNA RIVER BASIN, INDIA - ONGOING PROJECT MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING · TOWARDS ONE BILLION DROPS PERCOLATION PROJECT
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Bonneville Environmental Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC6× · 2019–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +133%
- RPRIVER PARTNERS2× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +159%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WCWATERSTART CHANNELS FOR INNOVATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -99% · 79% of their budget
- NIN-DRIP INCone grant, 2023 · $805k
- CRCOLORADO RIVER INDIAN TRIBESone grant, 2023 · $553k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
The truckee river watershed council was founded to implement locally developed public-private collaborative solutions to protect and improve water quality and biological resources for the sustainable environmental and economic health of…
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
WaterWatch is a water conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring streamflows in Oregon rivers for fish, wildlife and the people who depend on healthy rivers.
BWP leads reliable and intentional conservation initiatives that promote and provide clean, ample water for people and habitats by working with key partners and our communities
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
Coquille watershed association (coqwa) works collaboratively with communities and landowners to develop and implement voluntary watershed restoration, enhancement, and community engagement activities that promote healthy and resilient…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is River Partners and the most unlike its peers is Portland Energy Conservation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 146 of the 225 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chico State Enterprises ↗
- Who funds WATERSTART CHANNELS FOR INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLARA RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOULDER WATERSHED COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership ↗
- Who funds CLEAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds Forth Mobility Fund ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Resources Legacy Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · Patagoniaorg · National Forest Foundation · Gray Family Foundation · Laird Norton Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Water Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · River Network
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bonneville Environmental Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Deschutes River Conservancy — 100% of income from government
- Mckenzie Watershed Alliance — 100% of income from government
- Pacific Ocean Energy Trust — 100% of income from government
- Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc — 100% of income from government
- Luckiamute Watershed Council — 100% of income from government
- Crooked River Watershed Council — 100% of income from government
- United Community Action Network — 82% of income from government
- Midcoast Watersheds Council — 76% of income from government
- Calapooia Watershed Council — 57% of income from government
- Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council — 49% of income from government
- Coos Watershed Association — 44% of income from government
- Long Tom Watershed Council — 39% of income from government
- South Santiam Watershed Council — 38% of income from government
- Clackamas River Basin Council Inc — 36% of income from government
- Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership — 29% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Wetlands Conservancy Inc — 18% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Farmers Conservation Alliance — 15% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Midstate Electric Cooperative Inc — 11% of income from government
- Forth Mobility Fund — 7% of income from government
- Rose Community Development Corporat — 1% of income from government
- Wasco Electric Cooperative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Electric Cooperative — 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- Umatilla Electric Cooperative — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.