Oregon · Nonprofit
CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT
CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,046 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($81,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $267k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $228k
- Net assets
- $186k
What Cascades Carnivore Project does
Mission
Our mission is to study and restore carnivore populations at risk of extinction and the mountain ecosystems they call home through innovative science, strong partnerships and local community action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We designed scientific research projects, collected and analyzed scientific data and provided results, inferences, and management recommendations to improve the conservation of wolverine, Cascade red fox and Canada lynx populations on state and federal lands in Washington. Our program supported state and federal agency mandates and scientific inquiry, and promoted the protection and recovery of 3 Species of Greatest Conservation Concern in Washington for the greater public good and directly benefited 100 community scientists who participated in our research projects. Our program also engaged the public by providing outreach and presentations on carnivore conservation issues in mountain ecosystems and carnivore coexistence in the West, directly benefiting 165 community members. Our program supported wildlife conservation and management decisions through research and collaboration with various stakeholders for the greater public good.
$163,994 spent$230,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $163,994.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $101k to $186k (+84%).
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: 2024 23% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Tara Chestnut
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $12k → $135k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT’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
CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 60% — 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
60% of CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 493 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 493 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $228k on record.
- Department of the Interior$178k
- Department of Agriculture$50k
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 CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT
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
83% 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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT: 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 CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT?
- CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,046 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($81,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $228,046 in grants to CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $81,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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