How much does Wild Salmon Center give?

Wild Salmon Center reported 11 itemized grants totaling $2,269,849, out of $3,105,004 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Wild Salmon Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (1%).

Who are Wild Salmon Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society ($1.5M), Coos Watershed Association ($912k), Rogue River Watershed Council ($679k).

Does Wild Salmon Center fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wild Salmon Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, The Ford Family Foundation.

Where is Wild Salmon Center based?

Wild Salmon Center is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Wild Salmon Center

The mission of WILD SALMON CENTER is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the pacific rim. We identify science-based solutions to sustain wild salmonids and the human communities and livelihoods that depend on them.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023: 22%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $97,126
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,227,628
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 14; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Wild Salmon Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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	10	$2.2M	30%
FY2023	9	$506k	22%
FY2022	12	$1.4M	17%
FY2021	9	$846k	0%
FY2020	14	$793k	36%
FY2019	12	$721k	33%
FY2018	14	$903k	64%
FY2017	8	$167k	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$6.0MArts & Culture$1.5MScience & Tech$110kAnimals$63kEducation$10k

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
Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society	$1,497,352	3	32%
Coos Watershed Association	$912,225	7	20%
Rogue River Watershed Council	$678,763	7	18%
Curry Watersheds Nonprofit	$664,584	7	79%
Siuslaw Swcd	$627,004	5	n/a
Stand for Salmon	$555,000	2	45%
Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc	$512,349	4	19%
Upper Nehalem Watershed Council	$506,062	6	71%
Midcoast Watersheds Council	$230,935	7	12%
Applegate Partnership Inc	$209,271	3	13%

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All grantees of Wild Salmon Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society	$1,497,352	3	32%
Coos Watershed Association	$912,225	7	20%
Rogue River Watershed Council	$678,763	7	18%
Curry Watersheds Nonprofit	$664,584	7	79%
Siuslaw Swcd	$627,004	5	n/a
Stand for Salmon	$555,000	2	45%
Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc	$512,349	4	19%
Upper Nehalem Watershed Council	$506,062	6	71%
Midcoast Watersheds Council	$230,935	7	12%
Applegate Partnership Inc	$209,271	3	13%
Lower Nehalem Watershed Council	$167,886	3	18%
University of California Davis	$110,000	3	n/a
Alaska Range Alliance	$100,000	1	n/a
California Trout Inc	$53,147	2	1%
Quileute Tribe	$52,554	1	n/a
Columbia Soil and Water Conservation District	$47,795	5	n/a
WaterWatch of Oregon	$45,000	2	3%
National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA)	$45,000	1	n/a
Washington Dept Of Fish & Wildlife	$39,875	2	n/a
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc	$28,000	1	0%
National Congress of American Indians Fund	$20,000	1	0%
ForSea Solutions	$20,000	1	n/a
Salmon River Restoration Council	$17,000	2	1%
Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation	$16,000	1	2%
Quinault Indian Nation	$12,349	1	n/a
Oregon Hunters Association Inc	$12,000	1	2%
American Rivers Inc	$10,500	1	0%
The University of Montana Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Wild Fish Conservancy	$10,000	1	1%
Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association	$7,000	1	3%
Wild Rivers Land Trust	$6,356	1	2%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.

Wild Salmon Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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 22.

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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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The Ford Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · The Burning Foundation · Bonneville Environmental Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Pew Charitable Trusts · New Venture Fund · The Oregon Community 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 Wild Salmon Center

How much does Wild Salmon Center give?: Wild Salmon Center reported 11 itemized grants totaling $2,269,849, out of $3,105,004 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wild Salmon Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are Wild Salmon Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society ($1.5M), Coos Watershed Association ($912k), Rogue River Watershed Council ($679k).
Does Wild Salmon Center fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wild Salmon Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, The Ford Family Foundation.
Where is Wild Salmon Center based?: Wild Salmon Center is based in OR.