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Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of PACIFIC FOREST & WATERSHED LANDS STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $947,872 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 24% of your 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.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- FRFEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST6× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +60%
- SLSHASTA LAND TRUST6× · 2018–2023 · $850k · revenue +899% · 27% of their budget
- NCNORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST6× · 2018–2023 · $625k · revenue +16% · 80% of their budget
Funded once
- PTPLACER TITLE COMPANYone grant, 2020 · $5.0M
- SJSAN JOAQUIN COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $2.4M
- PCPLACER COUNTY ASSESSORone grant, 2022 · $612k
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 Siskiyou Land Conservancy is a state and federally approved non-profit organization that assists landowners who want to protect the natural values of their land, either through purchase or establishment of conservation easements.
The Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust works to protect and conserve agricultural lands, open space, and wildlife habitat in Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa counties for the benefit of current and future generations
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.
Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.
The Santa Clara River Conservancy represents the diverse interests of the Santa Clara River, from the flood plain to the highest tributaries, and seeks to secure, sustain, and manage significant lands and waters that provide habitat for…
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
Promote conservation easements and resource management plans that conserve agriculture lands, forestlands, wildlife habitat, open space, and other natural resources, in perpetuity.
The Central Coast Land Conservancy mission is to protect, in perpetuity, the wild spaces and natural heritage of Oregon's Central Coast
The vitality of open spaces is essential to the health of our earth, air, water, native plants, and animals. Our goal is to ensure that the beauty, diversity, and fullness of our wild lands continue to enrich and sustain all generations of…
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern California Regional Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 41 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
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 FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHASTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Mother Lode Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Sierra Foothill Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SPRING RIVERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIDU SUMMIT CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds Bear Yuba Land Trust ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sequoia Riverlands Trust ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MEADOWS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTERN SHASTA RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds California Council of Land Trusts ↗
- Who funds SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP ↗
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: 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
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 Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Council 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.