How much does Western Resource Advocates give?

Western Resource Advocates reported 1 itemized grants totaling $150,000, out of $154,284 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Western Resource Advocates fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (93%), Membership Benefit (3%), Civil Rights (2%).

Who are Western Resource Advocates's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: WRA Action Fund ($700k), Colorado State University ($228k), Conservation Colorado ($200k).

Does Western Resource Advocates fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Western Resource Advocates?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Tides Foundation.

Where is Western Resource Advocates based?

Western Resource Advocates is based in CO.

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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, WRA's on-the-ground work advances clean energy, protects air, land, water, and wildlife. WRA…

$154k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 1
Itemized grants FY2025: 2
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $150k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $150,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Western Resource Advocates funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCivil RightsMembership BenefitEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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
FY2025still arriving	1	$150k	0%
FY2024	2	$295k	50%
FY2023	5	$378k	80%
FY2022	2	$50k	0%
FY2021	4	$120k	100%
FY2020	11	$431k	45%
FY2019	12	$680k	75%
FY2018	4	$135k	50%

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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$2.0MMembership Benefit$70kCivil Rights$50kCommunity Improvement$40k

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
WRA Action Fund	$700,000	4	86%
Colorado State University	$227,705	2	n/a
Conservation Colorado	$200,000	1	8%
Powder River Basin Resource Council	$140,000	3	7%
Interwest Energy Alliance	$125,000	2	13%
Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest	$100,000	4	3%
Signal Tech Coalition	$100,000	1	n/a
Prosperity Works	$95,000	3	5%
Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc	$75,000	3	3%
The Partnership Project Inc	$59,500	1	0%

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All grantees of Western Resource Advocates by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
WRA Action Fund	$700,000	4	86%
Colorado State University	$227,705	2	n/a
Conservation Colorado	$200,000	1	8%
Powder River Basin Resource Council	$140,000	3	7%
Interwest Energy Alliance	$125,000	2	13%
Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest	$100,000	4	3%
Signal Tech Coalition	$100,000	1	n/a
Prosperity Works	$95,000	3	5%
Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc	$75,000	3	3%
The Partnership Project Inc	$59,500	1	0%
University of Utah	$50,000	2	n/a
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$50,000	1	0%
American Rivers Inc	$45,800	1	0%
To Nizhoni Ani	$45,000	1	5%
Black Mesa Trust inc	$40,000	1	20%
Southwest Research & Information Center	$35,000	2	n/a
River Network	$32,000	1	1%
Utah Foundation	$25,000	1	4%
University of Wyoming	$25,000	1	n/a
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies	$25,000	1	2%
Renewable Northwest Project Dba Renewable Northwest	$25,000	1	1%
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund	$25,000	1	4%
City of Aspen	$15,000	1	n/a
Acting in Community Together in Organizing Northern Nevada	$15,000	1	2%
One Apia Nevada	$15,000	1	3%
FRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake	$10,000	1	5%
Bonneville Environmental Foundation	$8,000	1	0%
Conversation Ink	$5,200	1	n/a

Western Resource Advocates supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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 21.

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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.

United States Energy FoundationCA23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Tides Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · The Energy Foundation · New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · The Nature Conservancy · Energy Action Fund · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts

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 Resource Advocates

How much does Western Resource Advocates give?: Western Resource Advocates reported 1 itemized grants totaling $150,000, out of $154,284 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Western Resource Advocates fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (93%), Membership Benefit (3%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are Western Resource Advocates's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: WRA Action Fund ($700k), Colorado State University ($228k), Conservation Colorado ($200k).
Does Western Resource Advocates fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Western Resource Advocates?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Tides Foundation.
Where is Western Resource Advocates based?: Western Resource Advocates is based in CO.