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Public Lands Council

To promote the common business interest of livestock industries with respect to grazing on federal lands.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$146k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$1.1MCommunity Improvement$467kEnvironment$324kFood & Nutrition$280kAnimals$147kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $321,818, the rows itemized in this filing. The $355,312 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,494 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $283k
$137,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO$145,655
WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER$137,500
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING$23,663
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IDAHO CATTLE ASSOCIATION: $122k → 8%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY: $90k → 9%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE POLICY: $105k → 14%Red Banyan Group: $36k → 13%OREGON CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $13k → 12%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $225k → 12%OREGON CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $49k → 14%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $102k → 18%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $41k → 7%AMERICAN SHEEP INDUSTRY: $14k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO: $146k → 10%IDAHO CATTLE ASSOCIATION: $90k → 8%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $200k → 12%OREGON STATE UNIVERSTIY: $25k → 18%AMERICAN SHEEP INDUSTRY: $14k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $20k → 10%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $150k → 12%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $138k → 12%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $135k → 12%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $120k → 12%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $100k → 12%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $100k → 12%WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $70k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
OR
NV
WY
CO
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Public Lands Council’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Public Lands Councillessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 8 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$2.4M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+52%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IC
    Idaho Cattle Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $551k · revenue +71%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +115%
  • OC
    OREGON CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $62k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $105k · revenue -100%
  • IS
    INJECTION SITE LOCATION POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON SPAYVAC IMMUNOCONTRACEPTIVE E
    one grant, 2019 · $45k
  • CC
    COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $41k · revenue +52%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
05the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $1,237,997 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTERBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $165,754 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIG…UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING: $158,663 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $126,613 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY INC: $105,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULT…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY: $105,000 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HIS…OREGON CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATION: $61,716 · OtherOREGON CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATIONINJECTION SITE LOCATION POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON SPAYVAC IMMUNOCONTRACEPTIVE E: $45,000 · OtherCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $40,500 · OtherRed Banyan Group: $36,000 · Other+1 more: $27,000 · OtherIdaho Cattle Association Inc: $551,244 · Community ImprovementIdaho Cattle Associatio…
Environment$1,237,997Other$871,246Community Improvement$551,244

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $1,237,997 over 9y, 35% of budgetIdaho Cattle Association Inc: $551,244 over 6y, 19% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY INC: $105,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY: $105,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetOREGON CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATION: $61,716 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $40,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN SHEEP INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Idaho Cattle Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON CATTLEMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SHEEP INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Public Lands Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Public Lands Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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