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Western Environmental Law Center

Public interest law firm - the WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER uses the power of the law to foster thriving, resilient western u.s. Lands, waters, wildlife, and communities in the face of a changing climate. We envision a thriving west, abundant with protected and interconnected ecosystems, powered by renewable energy, and cared for by…

$23k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$23,250
Largest grant, FY2023
$23,250
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$6.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Western Environmental Law Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’23
EnvironmentScience & Tech
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
FY20231$23k100%
FY20211$6k100%
FY20191$50k100%
FY20171$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Environment$87k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center$50,00016%
Silvix Resources$23,25017%
Cascadia Wildlands$7,00012%
Compass Science Communication Inc$6,38811%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Wilburforce FoundationWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Environmental Law Center

How much does Western Environmental Law Center give?
Western Environmental Law Center reported 1 grants totaling $23,250 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Western Environmental Law Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Western Environmental Law Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center ($50k), Silvix Resources ($23k), Cascadia Wildlands ($7k).
Does Western Environmental Law Center fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Western Environmental Law Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wilburforce Foundation.
Where is Western Environmental Law Center based?
Western Environmental Law Center is based in OR.

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 4 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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