How much does Western Conservation Action give?

Western Conservation Action reported 36 grants totaling $2,742,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Western Conservation Action fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (94%), Public Benefit (3%), Civil Rights (3%).

Who are Western Conservation Action's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rup Inc ($1.0M), League of Conservation Voters Inc ($920k), Western Way Action ($513k).

Does Western Conservation Action fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Western Conservation Action?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Conservation Foundation, Energy Action Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Where is Western Conservation Action based?

Western Conservation Action is based in CO.

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Colorado · Public charity

Western Conservation Action

Increase the strength, effectiveness and political power of the western conservation movement.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 36
Grants FY2024: 33
Organizations funded FY2023: 18%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 49; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $4.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Western Conservation Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	35	$2.7M	29%
FY2023	33	$1.9M	18%
FY2022	38	$2.3M	39%
FY2021	49	$2.4M	82%
FY2020	25	$2.4M	96%
FY2017	11	$284k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$11MPublic Benefit$339kCivil Rights$322kAnimals$95kEducation$14k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rup Inc	$1,000,000	4	26%
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$920,000	2	1%
Western Way Action	$513,000	4	100%
Progressnow New Mexico	$467,000	5	39%
Center for Civic Action	$404,000	4	18%
Montana Conservation Voters Inc	$335,000	1	42%
350 Colorado Action	$316,600	3	34%
New Mexico Wild Action Fund	$293,500	3	32%
Arizona Technology Council	$259,500	4	5%
Public Citizen Inc	$255,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Western Conservation Action by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rup Inc	$1,000,000	4	26%
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$920,000	2	1%
Western Way Action	$513,000	4	100%
Progressnow New Mexico	$467,000	5	39%
Center for Civic Action	$404,000	4	18%
Montana Conservation Voters Inc	$335,000	1	42%
350 Colorado Action	$316,600	3	34%
New Mexico Wild Action Fund	$293,500	3	32%
Arizona Technology Council	$259,500	4	5%
Public Citizen Inc	$255,000	3	1%
Mormon Women For Ethical Government	$252,000	4	45%
Stewardship Utah	$250,000	1	10%
Sierra Club	$242,600	5	0%
Arizonans for a Clean Economy	$220,000	1	19%
Western Organization of Resource Councils	$212,000	5	2%
Votevets Action Fund Inc	$187,725	1	2%
Progressnow Colorado	$187,500	5	22%
Logic Action	$180,000	2	n/a
Conservation Colorado	$177,600	4	5%
GreenLatinos	$175,965	3	2%
Wildearth Guardians	$170,000	2	3%
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers	$162,000	1	3%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action	$155,500	3	2%
Vetsforward Civic Action	$155,000	3	43%
National Wildlife Federation Action Fund	$150,000	2	2%
Working Families Organization Inc	$142,000	3	0%
Solar United Neighbors Action	$135,000	3	12%
Vet Voice Foundation	$132,000	1	n/a
Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce	$130,000	4	4%
Copirg Citizen Lobby Inc	$126,000	3	14%
Rep Environmental Education Foundation	$119,000	3	18%
Co Communities for Climate Action	$115,000	3	n/a
Wild Montana Action Fund	$113,000	2	54%
Mt Mountain Mamas	$105,000	4	19%
Make The Road States Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Protect Our Winters Action Fund	$98,000	3	80%
Colorado Rising for Communities	$93,000	1	27%
Friends of the Earth	$90,000	1	1%
Earthworks	$90,000	1	2%
New Mexico Ethics Watch	$85,000	2	26%
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Inc	$85,000	3	n/a
Conservation Voters New Mexico	$81,000	3	3%
Western Resource Advocates	$76,000	2	0%
Cultivando	$76,000	3	4%
Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund	$75,000	1	14%
Spirit of the Sun Inc	$75,000	1	14%
Amargosa Land Trust	$75,000	1	20%
Montana Wildlife Federation	$75,000	1	17%
Make the Road Action Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Good Business Colorado Association	$75,000	1	35%
Searchlight New Mexico News	$75,000	2	5%
America Votes	$70,000	1	0%
Good Business Colorado	$70,000	1	11%
Trout Unlimited Inc	$70,000	2	0%
Climate Advocates Voces Unidas	$70,000	2	8%
Solar United Neighbors Inc	$67,000	1	1%
Montana Public Interest Research Group	$62,000	2	9%
Colorado School of Mines Foundation	$60,000	1	0%
Nevada Conservation League	$58,500	1	6%
Forward Action Fund	$50,000	1	0%
Environment America Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Healthy Air and Water Colorado Action	$50,000	2	20%
Strong Towns	$45,000	1	4%
Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc	$45,000	2	1%
350 Colorado	$42,000	2	3%
Renewable Energy Owners Coalition of America	$41,000	1	n/a
League of Oil & Gas Impacted Coloradans	$40,000	1	n/a
Arizona Wins	$40,000	1	0%
Interwest Energy Alliance	$40,000	1	4%
Faith in Colorado	$40,000	1	19%
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Tuleyome	$35,800	1	5%
Progress Arizona	$35,500	1	1%
Greenpeace Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Nm Native Vote	$33,000	1	7%
Coalition to Protect Americas National	$32,500	1	14%
Partnership for Responsible Business	$30,000	1	31%
Clean Energy Economy for the Region	$30,000	1	3%
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action	$30,000	1	38%
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Western Colorado Alliance	$30,000	1	4%
Vet Voice Foundation Inc	$27,500	1	0%
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc	$25,000	2	3%
Western Environmental Law Center	$25,000	1	1%
Arizona Public Interest Research Group Inc	$25,000	1	12%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Local First Arizona Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Colorado Latino Forum	$22,000	1	n/a
High Ground Institute Inc	$21,500	1	6%
Center for Economic and Policy Research	$20,000	1	0%
California Environmental Voters	$20,000	1	1%
National Wildlife Federation	$20,000	1	0%
Wild Arizona	$20,000	1	5%
Earthworks Action Fund	$20,000	1	5%
Blue Wave Postcard Movement	$18,000	1	10%
New Mexico Wildlife Federation	$16,579	1	1%
Rocky Mountain Wild	$15,000	1	3%
The Archer Group	$15,000	1	1%
Hispanic Access Foundation	$11,543	1	1%
Pfaltzgraff Farms LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
San Juan Citizens Alliance	$10,000	1	1%
Colorado Fiscal Institute	$10,000	1	1%
Progressnow Colorado Education	$7,500	1	1%
The Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance	$7,000	1	3%
Conservation Colorado Education Fund	$6,500	1	0%
Western Leaders Network	$6,000	1	2%

Western Conservation Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 98.

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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.

Western Conservation FoundationCO86.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Western Conservation Foundation · Energy Action Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Resources Legacy Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · The Wilderness Society · Patagoniaorg · New Venture Fund · America Votes · League of Conservation Voters Inc · The Energy 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.

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About Western Conservation Action

How much does Western Conservation Action give?: Western Conservation Action reported 36 grants totaling $2,742,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Western Conservation Action fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (94%), Public Benefit (3%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are Western Conservation Action's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rup Inc ($1.0M), League of Conservation Voters Inc ($920k), Western Way Action ($513k).
Does Western Conservation Action fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Western Conservation Action?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Conservation Foundation, Energy Action Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Where is Western Conservation Action based?: Western Conservation Action is based in CO.