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Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

$7.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$37MAnimals$3.3MPhilanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$607kPublic Benefit$569kCommunity Improvement$133kRecreation & Sports$72kArts & Culture$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k51 grants · $5.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $879k
$43,750
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION$310,000
VET VOICE FOUNDATION$287,000
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE$282,300
ARIZONA WILDLIFE FEDERATION$229,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$221,216
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$201,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$185,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCA$178,440
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES$177,000
MOUNTAIN MAMAS$167,500
INDIGENOUS VOICES OF NEVADA$158,137
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDU$150,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PAR$140,000
BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS$140,000
CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUN$137,500
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $60k → 12%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $40k → 12%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $25k → 12%Tides Center: $25k → 10%CONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS E: $45k → 14%Council of Mexican Federations in North America: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN: $20k → 23%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $40k → 23%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $30k → 23%Outside Las Vegas Foundation: $83k → 13%Outside Las Vegas Foundation: $45k → 13%OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GE: $40k → 13%OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GE: $25k → 13%Outside Las Vegas Foundation: $10k → 13%Hispanic Access Foundation: $607k → 14%Hispanic Access Foundation: $235k → 14%Hispanic Access Foundation: $194k → 14%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $188k → 14%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $146k → 14%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $90k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$37M · 123 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

123 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123
105

Total granted

$37M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+31%

Still filing today

98%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $843k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • WC
    WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +158%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +72%
  • HA
    Hispanic Access Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +841% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • UD
    Utah Dine Bikeyah
    one grant, 2017 · $313k · revenue -75%
  • BE
    BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $178k · revenue +941%
  • NF
    NATURE FOR ALLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $145k · revenue +132%

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
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
2
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
3
Conservation Colorado

Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…

Civil Rights
4
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
5
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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6
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
7
Santa Fe Forest Coalition

Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico

Environment
8
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
9
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

Environment
10
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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11
Northern Plains Resource Council

Northern Plains believes people working together can make a difference. Our mission is to organize Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes; support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy in farm and ranch…

Community Improvement
12
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/260
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,305

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.

04the grantee network

253 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. 253 of the 261 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
93
Early backer (in before they grew)
246/253
Grantees still filing
173/253
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS — $2,107,780 · EnvironmentBACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERSMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $1,134,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATIONCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $1,073,700 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUNDNevada Conservation League Ed Fund — $959,800 · EnvironmentNevada Conservation League Ed FundNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $881,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $711,300 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $686,111 · EnvironmentMT MOUNTAIN MAMAS — $671,000 · EnvironmentCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION — $635,500 · Environment+70 more — $7,923,405 · Environment+70 moreWESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION — $2,226,000 · Civil RightsWESTERN CONSERV…VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,355,110 · Civil RightsVET VOICE FOUND…INSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA — $822,375 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR A…CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $516,200 · Civil RightsCONSERVATION VO…CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC — $421,500 · Civil RightsCONSERVATION VO…+9 more — $581,590 · Civil Rights+9 moreNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $1,467,488 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILD…ARIZONA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $860,000 · AnimalsARIZONA WILDL…MONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $695,000 · AnimalsMONTANA WILDL…TROUT UNLIMITED INC — $666,080 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMIT…THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $507,745 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOS…Nevada Wildlife Federation — $314,500 · AnimalsNevada Wildli…+4 more — $317,500 · Animals+4 moreNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $823,113 · OtherNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDE…INDIGENOUS VOICES NEVADA — $469,637 · OtherNUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT — $396,920 · OtherCalWild — $368,000 · OtherARIZONA ECUMENICAL COUNCIL — $309,200 · OtherTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $1,020,000 · OtherTHE DENVER FOUNDATIONSierra Business Council — $619,975 · OtherSierra Business CouncilWestern Resource Advocates — $796,000 · OtherWestern Resource Advocat…+57 more — $4,356,297 · Other+57 moreHispanic Access Foundation — $1,458,932 · Human ServicesOUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $203,100 · Human ServicesGREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS — $125,000 · Human ServicesCONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS EN NORTE AMERICA — $70,000 · Human ServicesNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $70,000 · Human Services+3 more — $125,000 · Human ServicesCoalition to Protect Americas National — $620,500 · Public BenefitMormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation — $307,750 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $288,550 · Public BenefitARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION — $274,000 · Public Benefit+7 more — $227,800 · Public BenefitPartnership for Responsible Business — $288,352 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION — $180,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $180,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $165,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $158,912 · Community ImprovementPROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $139,840 · Community ImprovementGood Business Colorado — $105,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE — $67,500 · Community ImprovementCULTIVANDO — $55,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $106,190 · Community Improvement
Environment$16,783,596Civil Rights$5,922,775Animals$4,828,313Other$9,159,142Human Services$2,052,032Public Benefit$1,718,600Community Improvement$1,545,794

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION — $2,226,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS — $2,107,780 over 6y, 30% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $1,467,488 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHispanic Access Foundation — $1,458,932 over 6y, 35% of budgetVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,355,110 over 6y, 18% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $1,134,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $1,073,700 over 6y, 15% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $1,020,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNevada Conservation League Ed Fund — $959,800 over 6y, 37% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $881,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetARIZONA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $860,000 over 5y, 54% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $823,113 over 6y, 19% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA — $822,375 over 6y, 38% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $796,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $711,300 over 6y, 31% of budgetMONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $695,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $686,111 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMT MOUNTAIN MAMAS — $671,000 over 5y, 61% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $666,080 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION — $635,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetCoalition to Protect Americas National — $620,500 over 6y, 43% of budgetSierra Business Council — $619,975 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $529,080 over 6y, 15% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $516,200 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $507,745 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetINDIGENOUS VOICES NEVADA — $469,637 over 3y, 65% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC — $421,500 over 6y, 40% of budgetNUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT — $396,920 over 3y, 30% of budgetCalWild — $368,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetArizona Interfaith Power and Light — $353,000 over 5y, 82% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $348,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNevada Wildlife Federation — $314,500 over 5y, 65% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah — $313,175 over 1y, 24% of budgetARIZONA ECUMENICAL COUNCIL — $309,200 over 5y, 19% of budgetMormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation — $307,750 over 5y, 41% of budgetSolar United Neighbors Inc — $302,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $288,550 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPartnership for Responsible Business — $288,352 over 6y, 100% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $288,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetREP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $286,902 over 5y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $282,672 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION — $274,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $266,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Frontera Land Alliance — $265,200 over 3y, 36% of budgetTHE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $257,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $220,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $203,100 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetPUBLIC LAND SOLUTIONS — $202,600 over 4y, 19% 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.

  • Who funds WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION ↗
  • Who funds BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds Hispanic Access Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds MT MOUNTAIN MAMAS ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Coalition to Protect Americas National ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Business Council ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS VOICES NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CalWild ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Interfaith Power and Light ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Nevada Wildlife Federation ↗
  • Who funds Utah Dine Bikeyah ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA ECUMENICAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Mormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation ↗
  • Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for Responsible Business ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Resources Legacy FundThe Wilderness SocietyPatagoniaorgUnited States Energy …Western Conservation …Environmental Defense…The Energy FoundationConservation Lands Fo…Wilburforce FoundationThe Pew Charitable Tr…The Partnership Proje…Natural Resources Def…
Resources Legacy FundCA135.4× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · The Wilderness Society · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · Western Conservation Action · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · The Energy Foundation · Conservation Lands Foundation · Wilburforce Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Partnership Project Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

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 Western Conservation Foundation 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 · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
  • Hunters of Color — 4% of income from government
  • Love Is King Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Western Conservation Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Western Conservation Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 261 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home