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Water Protector Legal Collective

The WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE is an indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for indigenous peoples and original nations, the earth, and climate justice movements

$282k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$279,301
Largest grant, FY2022
$279,301
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$54k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Water Protector Legal Collective funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$279k100%
FY20211$72k0%
FY20201$107kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Crime & Legal$279kEducation$179k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Water Protector Legal Collective$279,3011n/a
Law College Association of the University of Arizona$179,15025%

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About Water Protector Legal Collective

How much does Water Protector Legal Collective give?
Water Protector Legal Collective reported 1 grants totaling $281,970 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Water Protector Legal Collective fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (61%), Education (39%).
Who are Water Protector Legal Collective's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Water Protector Legal Collective ($279k), Law College Association of the University of Arizona ($179k).
Does Water Protector Legal Collective fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Water Protector Legal Collective based?
Water Protector Legal Collective is based in NM.

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 2 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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