Washington · Nonprofit
CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY
CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY (Washington) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,314 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($321,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $922k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $354k
What Cascade Forest Conservancy does
Mission
We protect and sustain forests, streams, wildlife, and communities in the heart of the cascades through conservation, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, we continued to advocate for and provide sustainable solutions to forest management and watershed protections in washington's south cascades. We did this by working in local collaborative groups and providing public comments on forest management and policy decisions, and worked to protect the mt. St. Helens area from irresponsible mining. We continued the implementation of a program to source and store non-merchantable wood for aquatic restoration, reintroduced beavers, restored streams by enhancing aquatic and riparian habitats, and restored the landscape through plantings and pre and post-fire restoration.
$694,368 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $694,368.
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 2021 to 2022, from $514k to $296k (−42%).
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: 2022 16% · 2023 4% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Nathan Reynolds
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $80k → $277k.
8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
33% 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 CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 69% · 2019 26% · 2020 20% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY has grown faster than half of the 4,266 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $168k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$130k
- Department of the Interior$37k
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 CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: 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 CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY?
- CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY (Washington) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,314 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($321,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,823,314 in grants to CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY?
- WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $321,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing