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Center for Natural Lands Management

The mission of the CENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT is (a) to conserve native species, their habitat and functioning ecosystems in perpetuity, (b) to own and/or manage lands in an ecologically beneficial manner consistent with local, state, and federal environmental laws and with science-based stewardship, (c) to promote the…

$207k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
6
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$11,210
Largest grant, FY2022
$101,332
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$329M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Center for Natural Lands Management funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20226$207k0%
FY20218$144k38%
FY20205$80k0%
FY20197$146k14%
FY201812$397k42%
FY20178$309kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Environment$885kAnimals$395kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington Dept Of Fish & Wildlife$266,8052n/a
California Department of Fish & Wildlife$130,9602n/a
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife$127,9265n/a
Ecostudies Institute$127,29125%
Greenbelt Land Trust$116,77853%
Institute for Applied Ecology$105,81751%
West Yost Inc$79,9022n/a
US Geological Survey$66,0921n/a
University of Washington$60,6422n/a
American Bird Conservancy$55,99250%
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All grantees of Center for Natural Lands Management by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington Dept Of Fish & Wildlife$266,8052n/a
California Department of Fish & Wildlife$130,9602n/a
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife$127,9265n/a
Ecostudies Institute$127,29125%
Greenbelt Land Trust$116,77853%
Institute for Applied Ecology$105,81751%
West Yost Inc$79,9022n/a
US Geological Survey$66,0921n/a
University of Washington$60,6422n/a
American Bird Conservancy$55,99250%
Washington State Dept of Natural Resources$51,0446n/a
Oregon Zoo$47,9333n/a
Columbia Land Trust$19,26110%
Core Gos LLC$16,6731n/a
Biosearch Associates$4,5132n/a
San Juan County$2,4231n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

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 FoundationDC18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Center for Natural Lands Management

How much does Center for Natural Lands Management give?
Center for Natural Lands Management reported 6 grants totaling $206,941 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Center for Natural Lands Management fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (69%), Animals (31%).
Who are Center for Natural Lands Management's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Washington Dept Of Fish & Wildlife ($267k), California Department of Fish & Wildlife ($131k), Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ($128k).
Does Center for Natural Lands Management fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Natural Lands Management?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Center for Natural Lands Management based?
Center for Natural Lands Management is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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