Oregon · Public charity
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.
- $23M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $19M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,702
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,006,878
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $69M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Bonneville Environmental Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $15M | 53% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $13M | 55% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $6.9M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $5.9M | 77% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $3.7M | 69% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $980k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $972k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $568k | 73% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Environment$48MScience & Tech$1.0MArts & Culture$753kEducation$753kAnimals$745kHousing & Shelter$687kInternational$625kHealth$563kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $4,814,029 | 6 | 4% |
| State of Arizona | $3,325,275 | 3 | n/a |
| Cocopah Tribal Nation | $2,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| River Partners | $2,281,905 | 2 | 4% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $1,854,072 | 4 | 0% |
| Taking Care of Texas | $1,701,431 | 3 | 14% |
| Columbia Basin Conservation District | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Council for Watershed Health | $1,446,289 | 4 | 23% |
| National Forest Foundation | $1,437,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Chico State Enterprises | $1,120,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $4,814,029 | 6 | 4% |
| State of Arizona | $3,325,275 | 3 | n/a |
| Cocopah Tribal Nation | $2,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| River Partners | $2,281,905 | 2 | 4% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $1,854,072 | 4 | 0% |
| Taking Care of Texas | $1,701,431 | 3 | 14% |
| Columbia Basin Conservation District | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Council for Watershed Health | $1,446,289 | 4 | 23% |
| National Forest Foundation | $1,437,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Chico State Enterprises | $1,120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Douglas Pud | $1,020,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Waterstart Channels for Innovation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 79% |
| Water Replenishment District of Southern California | $985,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sustainable Conservation | $937,200 | 4 | 5% |
| Lewis Public Transportation Benefit Area | $933,200 | 2 | n/a |
| N-Drip Inc | $805,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Clara River Conservancy | $754,580 | 1 | n/a |
| Cumberland River Compact Inc | $738,628 | 1 | 8% |
| Washington Water Trust | $650,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Deschutes River Conservancy | $637,195 | 3 | 22% |
| Colorado River Indian Tribes | $553,370 | 1 | n/a |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $520,294 | 7 | 0% |
| Upper Columbia United Tribes | $510,980 | 3 | n/a |
| Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District | $502,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The Digdeep Right to Water Project | $448,588 | 4 | 1% |
| Gila River Indian Community | $440,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Utah Water Conservancy District | $389,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boulder Watershed Collective | $385,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Waterorg | $375,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Laramie County Conservation Districtric | $375,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians | $347,300 | 3 | n/a |
| Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority | $322,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership | $319,775 | 4 | 3% |
| Clean International Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Colorado Water Trust | $289,250 | 4 | 3% |
| Forth Mobility Fund | $265,640 | 4 | 4% |
| Sycamore Family Trust | $258,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Trout Unlimited Ted Trueblood Chapter | $250,000 | 1 | 92% |
| East Fork Irrigation District | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carmichael Water District | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tarrant Regional Water District | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wateraid America Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Regional Water Authority | $242,275 | 1 | n/a |
| Sensor Industries | $238,690 | 1 | n/a |
| Bear River Canal Company | $230,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board | $215,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Plumas Corporation | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Great Basin Institute | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Rivers Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc | $180,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Svdp Leverage Lender | $175,255 | 1 | n/a |
| South Santiam Watershed Council | $173,387 | 4 | 21% |
| Heal the Bay | $170,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Methow Salmon Recovery Foundation | $160,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Yuba II Frb LLC | $160,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Henderson | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pheasants Forever Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| McKenzie Watershed Alliance | $140,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Scott River Water Trust | $140,000 | 1 | 74% |
| Coeur D'Alene Tribe | $135,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Emerald People's Utility District | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of the Dalles | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bridgestone Americas Inc | $121,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated | $110,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Friends of the Teton River Inc | $109,800 | 4 | 5% |
| Orcas Power & Light Cooperative | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Yakama Nation Housing Authority | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fall River Rural Elect Cooperative Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| One Tree Planted Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment & Security | $97,463 | 3 | 1% |
| Heart Butte High School | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Transition Projects Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington State University Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Tryon Creek | $74,288 | 3 | 3% |
| Mason Pud No 1 | $73,085 | 2 | n/a |
| Columbia County Conservation District | $71,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Long Tom Watershed Council | $70,320 | 3 | 2% |
| Hopeworks Social Enterprises | $67,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rogue Basin Partnership | $65,135 | 3 | 6% |
| Calapooia Watershed Council | $61,615 | 3 | 14% |
| Clearwater Resource Council | $60,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Clearwater Rc & D Council Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Mason Conservation District | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ecostudies Institute | $56,951 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Sustainable Infrastructure | $55,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Netafim Irrigation Inc | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| McKinney Parks Foundation | $51,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Siuslaw Swcd | $50,790 | 2 | n/a |
| Mystic River Watershed Association Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District Jatc Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Urban Rivers Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 21% |
| City of Ashland | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Golden Triangle Resource Conservation and Development Area Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of the Chicago River | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kootenai Electric Cooperative Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clatskanie Pud | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Ocean Energy Trust | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sauk River Watershed District | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Atlanta Watershed Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Ohio River Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Hood River County School District | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Trinity Conservation Tr | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Snohomish County Pud Voluntary Beneficiary Assn | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rose Community Development Corporat | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Foundation for Southeastern Fish and Wildlife Agencies | $50,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Alliance for Water Efficiency | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Portland Energy Conservation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 42% |
| Mill Creek Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Northern Lights Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of West Jordan | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yakama Power | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ravalli County Electric Cooperative Inc | $49,335 | 1 | 0% |
| Southeast Tn RC&D Council | $49,200 | 1 | 32% |
| Trees For Houston | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Washington State University | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Forest Finance Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Solar for All Inc | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc | $44,000 | 2 | 14% |
| University of Washington | $42,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alsea Community Effort | $40,035 | 2 | 13% |
| Coastal Quest | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of the Verde River | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Twende Solar | $40,000 | 1 | 35% |
| City of Forest Grove | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Forterra Nw | $38,988 | 3 | 0% |
| World Resources Institute | $38,113 | 1 | 0% |
| Collin County Soil and Water Conservation District #535 | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Clackamas River Basin Council Inc | $37,486 | 2 | 1% |
| Tennessee Environmental Council | $36,100 | 1 | 5% |
| Springfield Utility Board | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grays Harbor Conservation District | $35,275 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Oregon University | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tookany Tacony Frankford Watershed Partn Ership | $32,413 | 1 | 4% |
| Makah Indian Tribe | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Skagit Conservation District | $31,934 | 2 | n/a |
| Squaxin Island Tribe | $31,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Stevens Creek Trail | $30,857 | 1 | 28% |
| Farmers Conservation Alliance | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Umatilla Electric Cooperative | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Neahkahnie School District | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tacoma Public Schools | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Path Home | $28,305 | 1 | 0% |
| Tacoma Housing Development Group | $28,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Cowlitz County Pud | $27,498 | 1 | n/a |
| Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council | $26,450 | 2 | 5% |
| Wasco County Soil and Water Conservation District | $26,105 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Wasco County People's Utility District | $25,590 | 1 | n/a |
| The Grand Canyon Trust Inc | $25,350 | 1 | 0% |
| North Olympic Peninsula Resource Conservation & Development Council | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Sonoran Institute Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Puyallup Tribe of Indians | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Wetlands Conservancy Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cascadia Conservation District | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the San Juans | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Minnesota Land Trust | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Columbia River Peoples Utility District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Climate Center | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Quechan Indian Tribe | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grid Alternatives | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lane Community College Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skokomish Indian Tribe | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Energy Northwest | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Electric Cooperative | $19,412 | 1 | 0% |
| Skagit River System Cooperative | $19,041 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Idaho | $17,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Flint Riverkeeper Inc | $17,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Salish and Kootenai Housing Authority | $16,940 | 1 | n/a |
| Midstate Electric Cooperative Inc | $16,676 | 1 | 0% |
| Byrd Barr Place | $16,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Holden Village | $16,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Coos Watershed Association | $15,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Mattole Restoration Council | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Renewable Hydrogen Alliance | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Washington Maritime Blue | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clallam Pud | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Coal Creek Canyon Watershed Partnership Co Henry Waters & Associates Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Sea Rise Solutions | $15,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group | $13,287 | 1 | 1% |
| South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group | $13,142 | 1 | 0% |
| Lemhi Soil and Water Conservation District | $12,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Midcoast Watersheds Council | $12,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Urban Forest Carbon Registry | $11,725 | 1 | 1% |
| Snohomish Conservation District | $11,220 | 1 | n/a |
| San Juan County | $10,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Arizona Sustainability Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Luckiamute Watershed Council | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kinnickinnic River Land Trust Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Pierce Conservation District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Maupin Area Chamber of Commerce Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Montana Renewable Energy Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Community Action Network | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evergreen Community Developement In | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Crooked River Watershed Council | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Heart Butte School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Stewardship Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| McKenzie River Watershed Council | $9,452 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement | $8,993 | 1 | 0% |
| Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc | $8,265 | 1 | 1% |
| Social Justice Action Center | $8,200 | 1 | 8% |
| Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc | $8,100 | 1 | 1% |
| Ecotrust | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Natural Resource Group | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pac-12 Mmr LLC | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trees Atlanta Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon State University | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wasco Electric Cooperative Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Food Bank | $7,160 | 1 | 0% |
| Bethany United Church of Christ | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skagit Land Trust | $5,847 | 1 | 0% |
| Hood River Soil & Water Conservation District | $5,520 | 1 | n/a |
| Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement | $5,480 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohu Ohu Koolau Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sandy River Basin Watershed Council | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Bonneville Environmental Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 133.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC61.1× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Compare Bonneville Environmental Foundation with peer funders
About Bonneville Environmental Foundation
- How much does Bonneville Environmental Foundation give?
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $19,330,616, out of $23,498,704 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bonneville Environmental Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Science & Tech (2%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Bonneville Environmental Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trout Unlimited Inc ($4.8M), State of Arizona ($3.3M), Cocopah Tribal Nation ($2.5M).
- Does Bonneville Environmental Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bonneville Environmental Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Resources Legacy Fund.
- Where is Bonneville Environmental Foundation based?
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation is based in OR.
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More from the funding graph
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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