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Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$948k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$947,872
Largest grant, FY2024
$947,872
Organizations funded a year
12 to 24
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
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
FY2024still arriving1$948k0%
FY202312$6.1M17%
FY202224$7.8M13%
FY202121$4.9M19%
FY202020$6.0M15%
FY201923$3.4M35%
FY201821$2.0Mn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$12MEnvironment$11MPhilanthropy$3.0MCommunity Improvement$2.7MPublic Benefit$1.7MCivil Rights$61kScience & Tech$50kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feather River Land Trust$1,241,254616%
Shasta Land Trust$850,126627%
Northern California Regional Land Trust$624,953680%
Mother Lode Land Trust$604,597381%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$334,02450%
Placer Land Trust$332,67863%
Sierra Foothill Conservancy$297,45827%
Mendocino Land Trust$279,962522%
Spring Rivers Foundation$214,620484%
Maidu Summit Consortium$176,307330%
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All grantees of Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feather River Land Trust$1,241,254616%
Shasta Land Trust$850,126627%
Northern California Regional Land Trust$624,953680%
Mother Lode Land Trust$604,597381%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$334,02450%
Placer Land Trust$332,67863%
Sierra Foothill Conservancy$297,45827%
Mendocino Land Trust$279,962522%
Spring Rivers Foundation$214,620484%
Maidu Summit Consortium$176,307330%
Bear Yuba Land Trust$175,994613%
Wildlife Heritage Foundation$150,68552%
Sequoia Riverlands Trust$111,23831%
Mountain Meadows Conservancy$84,6733n/a
Friends of the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District$82,467420%
County of Madera$81,6012n/a
California Council of Land Trusts$70,000210%
Pit River Tribe$60,5623n/a
Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship$19,75921%
County of Tuolumne$12,5221n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($25M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeather River Land Trust: $1,241,254 over 6y, 16% of budgetShasta Land Trust: $850,126 over 6y, 27% of budgetNorthern California Regional Land Trust: $624,953 over 6y, 80% of budgetMother Lode Land Trust: $604,597 over 3y, 81% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $334,024 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlacer Land Trust: $332,678 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSierra Foothill Conservancy: $297,458 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMendocino Land Trust: $279,962 over 5y, 22% of budgetSpring Rivers Foundation: $214,620 over 4y, 84% of budgetMaidu Summit Consortium: $176,307 over 3y, 30% of budgetBear Yuba Land Trust: $175,994 over 6y, 13% of budgetWildlife Heritage Foundation: $150,685 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSequoia Riverlands Trust: $111,238 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District: $82,467 over 4y, 20% of budgetCalifornia Council of Land Trusts: $70,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetSierra Buttes Trail Stewardship: $19,759 over 2y, 0.8% of budget

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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 16.

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.

Land Trust Alliance IncDC24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Land Trust Alliance Inc · California Council of Land Trusts · Resources Legacy Fund · The Trust for Public Land · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council

How much does Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council give?
Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council reported 1 grants totaling $947,872 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (39%), Environment (36%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Feather River Land Trust ($1.2M), Shasta Land Trust ($850k), Northern California Regional Land Trust ($625k).
Does Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Land Trust Alliance Inc, California Council of Land Trusts, Resources Legacy Fund.
Where is Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council based?
Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council 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 41 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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