Oregon · Nonprofit
Calapooia Watershed Council
Calapooia Watershed Council (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,518,390 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($889,709). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $628k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $312k
What Calapooia Watershed Council does
Mission
The Calapooia Watershed Council shall promote and sustain the health of the Calapooia Watershed. Stewardship, restoration, education, community involvement, and strategic partnerships are the tools we use in pursuit of this purpose.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Habitat Restoration - The Council restores the Calapooia River watershed to improve habitat for ESA-listed salmonids and other native species. At the 300-acre Albany Oxbows and Truax Island Greenway, it replaces failed culverts and breaches berms to reconnect floodplains and eliminate fish traps. The Council stabilizes streambanks, removes invasive weeds, and plants thousands of native trees and shrubs along Periwinkle Creek and East Thornton Lake. It has restored the Calapooia River, Brush Creek, Oak Creek, and Courtney Creek and conducts long-term water monitoring. At Tub Run, it restored over 140 acres of rare wetland prairie, supporting the threatened Streaked Horned Lark while filtering pollutants and recharging groundwater. The Council also educates landowners and stakeholders through the Mid-Willamette Beaver Partnership and Mid-Valley River Connections Plan for Your Land workshops.
$401,125 spent$433,053 earned by the program81% of program spendingEducation and outreach The Council engages nearly 1,900 local youth annually in no-cost, hands-on outdoor science programs, transforming local habitats into living classrooms. Programs include Salmon Watch, where 685 fifth and sixth-graders study macroinvertebrates and salmon biology; Urban Ecology, which teaches fifth-graders the importance of healthy rivers and ecosystems; and the award-winning Roaming Rivers freshwater snorkeling program for high school youth, including those served by Jackson Street Youth Services and the Linn County Juvenile Detention Center. The Council also connects with families through Splashy Science days with the Albany Public Library and community events such as Festival Latino. These programs serve several Title I schools and many at-risk students.
$96,506 spent$84,440 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $497,631.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $287k to $677k (+136%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 48% · 2018 34% · 2019 13% · 2020 62% · 2021 81% · 2022 68% · 2023 77% · 2024 97% · 2025 94% · 2026 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Calapooia Watershed Council’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Collin McCandless
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $188k → $109k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Calapooia Watershed Council’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Calapooia Watershed Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Calapooia Watershed Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 65% · 2019 40% · 2020 79% · 2021 92% · 2022 82% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of Calapooia Watershed Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
61% of Calapooia Watershed Council's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $597k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $922k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Calapooia Watershed Council receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 51 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding Calapooia Watershed Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record — $34k federal, $2.3M state.
- Department of Agriculture$34k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$2.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$9k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$59
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Calapooia Watershed Council
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Calapooia Watershed Council: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Calapooia Watershed Council?
- Calapooia Watershed Council (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,518,390 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($889,709). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Calapooia Watershed Council have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,518,390 in grants to Calapooia Watershed Council, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Calapooia Watershed Council?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $889,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Calapooia Watershed Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing