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Washington Conservation Action Education Fund

To champion policies that center the expertise and resilience of overburdened communities for environmental progress and justice in the pacific northwest.

$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0161% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$643kHuman Services$195kInternational$31kPhilanthropy$25kEducation$18kCommunity Improvement$8kAnimals$6kOther$596k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $135,047 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,858 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,811 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO ON 2066$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS$24,000
COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER$20,800
NUESTRA CASA$20,000
NW ENERGY COALITION$15,000
350PDX$11,000
COMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY$8,000
350 TACOMA$6,000
OREGON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY$5,247
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NUESTRA CASA: $20k → 11%Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $175k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 22% of Washington Conservation Action Education Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Washington Conservation Action Education Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$965k · 18 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

$965k
$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+30%

Still filing today

83%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CR
    Columbia Riverkeeper
    6× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +113%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS
    6× · 2018–2024 · $108k · revenue +160%
  • FA
    Front and Centered
    2× · 2019–2020 · $76k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CA
    CLEAN AIR CLEAN ENERGY WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2018 · $175k
  • LC
    Latino Community Fund of Washington Stategraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $175k · revenue +75%
  • CS
    CLIMATE SOLUTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +154%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment
2
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
3
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
4
350 Seattle

350 Seattle works toward climate justice by organizing people to make deep systems change: resisting fossil fuels; building momentum for healthy alternatives; and fostering resilient, just, and welcoming communities.

Environment
5
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment
6
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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7
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
8
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
9
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
10
Portland Harbor Community Coalition

Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC) organizes frontline groups and individuals to heal the water, land, and air in and around the Wa'lmaomt (Willamette River) federal Superfund area, polluted from over a century of heavy industrial…

Environment
11
Confluence Environmental Center

Confluence Environmental Center's mission is to bring together streams of thought, action and people to make the environmental movement more robust, inclusive and effective.

Environment
12
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Solutions and the most unlike its peers is Nuestra Casa. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%20%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr15%14%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,935

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.

05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Columbia Riverkeeper — $149,771 · EnvironmentColumbia RiverkeeperFront and Centered — $75,500 · EnvironmentFront and CenteredRE SOURCES — $70,945 · EnvironmentRE SOURCESOregon Physicians for Social Responsibility — $59,183 · EnvironmentOregon Physicians for Social ResponsibilitySTAND — $58,945 · EnvironmentSTANDCOMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY — $52,950 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY350PDX — $48,200 · Environment350PDXSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $45,945 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION350 Tacoma — $30,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $25,250 · Environment+3 more — $26,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR CLEAN ENERGY WASHINGTON — $175,000 · OtherCLEAN AIR CLEAN ENERGY WASHINGTONFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS — $107,645 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANSCASCADIA LAW GROUP — $76,000 · OtherCASCADIA LAW GROUPCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $43,736 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONSFriends of the Columbia Gorge — $42,145 · OtherFriends of the Columbia GorgeNATIVE DAILY NETWORK — $30,700 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $30,000 · OtherNO ON 2066 — $25,000 · Other+5 more — $66,150 · Other+5 moreLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $175,000 · Human ServicesLatino Communi…Nuestra CASA — $20,000 · Human ServicesNuestra CASAWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility — $31,000 · InternationalOTHER 98 PERCENT LAB — $25,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $18,000 · EducationNAA KAANI NATIVE PROGRAM — $7,500 · Community ImprovementTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $5,500 · Animals
Environment$642,689Other$596,376Human Services$195,000International$31,000Philanthropy$25,000Education$18,000Community Improvement$7,500Animals$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $175,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper — $149,771 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS — $107,645 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetFront and Centered — $75,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRE SOURCES — $70,945 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOregon Physicians for Social Responsibility — $59,183 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetSTAND — $58,945 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY — $52,950 over 5y, 2.5% of budget350PDX — $48,200 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $45,945 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $43,736 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge — $42,145 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility — $31,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350 Tacoma — $30,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $25,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOTHER 98 PERCENT LAB — $25,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetNuestra CASA — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH MINISTRY — $17,700 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNW ENERGY COALITION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBREACH COLLECTIVE — $12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNorthwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education — $9,450 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNIMIIPUU PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT — $8,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNAA KAANI NATIVE PROGRAM — $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY — $5,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bullitt FoundationSeattle FoundationPatagoniaorgThe Rose Foundation f…Columbia RiverkeeperMeyer Memorial TrustClimate SolutionsThe Northwest Fund fo…Ronald W Naito Md Fou…The Satterberg Founda…The GreerSolien FundKaleidoscope Foundati…
The Bullitt FoundationWA38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bullitt Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Columbia Riverkeeper · Meyer Memorial Trust · Climate Solutions · The Northwest Fund for the Environment · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The GreerSolien Fund · Kaleidoscope 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 Washington Conservation Action Education Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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