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· Public charity

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 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$1.2MHuman Services$195kCrime & Legal$48kArts & Culture$40kFood & Nutrition$29kPublic Benefit$25kEducation$8kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $135,047, the rows itemized in this filing. The $235,858 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $100,811 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 · 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

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:

Its 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 its 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
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 22% of Washington Conservation Action Education Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 73%.

Washington Conservation Action Education Fundlessmore 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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
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

  • 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

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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
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
Cascade Climate Inc

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

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
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
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
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Solutions; 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.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 33 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washington Conservation Action Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Conservation Action Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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