· Public charity
The Watershed Research & Training Center
To promote healthy communities and sustainable forests through research, education, training and economic development.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of THE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $624k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY | $97,858 |
| CIVICORPS | $91,919 |
| DOVETAIL PARTNERS | $90,796 |
| THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD | $83,364 |
| WASHINGTON RC & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $80,000 |
| GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARK CONSERVAN | $76,382 |
| SHASTA VALLEY RCD | $63,953 |
| SOUTHERN CA MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $59,227 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $57,356 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS | $52,118 |
| PLUMAS CORPORATION | $48,859 |
| HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORG | $46,282 |
| THE WESTERN CENTER INC | $44,990 |
| CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH | $37,625 |
| LA CONSERVATION CORPS | $37,128 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $274k · revenue +30%
- PCPLUMAS COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $158k · revenue +99%
- HWHAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION3× · 2022–2025 · $156k · revenue +652%
Funded once
- RVROUND VALLEY INDIAN TRIBESone grant, 2024 · $95k
- NSNC STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $54k
- LJLA JOLLA BAND OF LUISENO INDIANSone grant, 2023 · $46k
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.
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
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.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
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 foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
Planning and participation in activities to increase safety and reduce fire hazards in the Eastern Madera County area.
Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
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…
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Klamath Watershed Council and the most unlike its peers is Plumas County Fire Safe Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 54 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 CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMAS COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD ↗
- Who funds DOVETAIL PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT C ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVICORPS ↗
- Who funds Wildfire Adapted Partnership ↗
- Who funds Occidental Arts and Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETWEAVERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Tribal Eco Restoration Alliance ↗
- Who funds American Indian Council of Mariposa County ↗
- Who funds PLUMAS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds SEIGLER SPRINGS COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SALMON RIVER RESTORATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Scott River Watershed Council ↗
- Who funds Cope Northern Sonoma County ↗
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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Coalitions & Collaboratives Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · National Forest Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Humboldt Area Foundation · The California Endowment · California Fire Safe Council Inc · California Fire Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Bella Vista Foundation · Bonneville Environmental 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 The Watershed Research & Training Center 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.
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