Washington · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION NW
CONSERVATION NW (Washington) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,638,752 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($2,499,536). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Conservation Nw does
Mission
We protect, connect and restore wildlands and wildlife from the washington coast to the british columbia rockies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Habitat connectivity:we are successfully protecting vital wildlife corridors and reconnected habitat between washington's north cascades and mountain wildlands to its northwest, northeast, south, and west. This year we retained state funding for wildlife underpasses to be built on highway 97 where it's crossed by the cascades to rockies corridor. We also continued pilot projects with virtual fencing that enable removal of barb wire from key sageland habitat corridors. And we protected (through acquisition to the chehalis indian tribe) a private property essential for a wildlife crossing over interstate 5 to connect the cascades and olympics.
$1,605,309 spentof which $468,459 as grants48% of program spendingProtecting wildlands:this program focuses on preserving large blocks of habitat, including forest, sageland, and general wildlands, as cornerstones of ecological resilience and for long-term survival and recovery of imperiled wildlife. In the past year, we collaborated with diverse interests to advance science-driven outcomes on forestry projects on state and federal lands and the policies under which they are formulated. We also helped secure legislative funding to improve carbon storage on key private timberlands.
$497,540 spentof which $5,100 as grants15% of program spendingRestoring wildlife:through this program we champion the return of iconic wildlife while building greater social tolerance to safeguard their long-term recovery. This year we continued reintroduction of lynx to the kettle range, working with indigenous nations in the us and canada to trap and translocate another 10 lynx. Our direct engagement with ranchers in wolf country has helped keep conflict between wolves and livestock to a minimum, and our success over the past few years has meant that washington has had the lowest rate of human-caused wolf mortality of any state but california.
$487,075 spentof which $1,500 as grants15% of program spendingOther program efforts to protect, connect and restore wildlands and wildlife from the washington coast to the british columbia rockies.
$744,330 spent22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,334,254.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $2.0M (+40%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 15% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CONSERVATION NW’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. 2 of the last 7 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
Mitch Friedman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $727k → $2.4M.
23 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 CONSERVATION NW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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
CONSERVATION NW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
65% 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 CONSERVATION NW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 35% · 2019 20% · 2020 15% · 2021 45% · 2022 23% · 2023 14% — 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 CONSERVATION NW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
CONSERVATION NW draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
CONSERVATION NW's funding base is broadening — from 29 funders to 65 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONSERVATION NW receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $772k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$414k
- Department of the Interior$358k
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 CONSERVATION NW
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVATION NW: 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 CONSERVATION NW?
- CONSERVATION NW (Washington) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,638,752 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($2,499,536). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION NW have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $16,638,752 in grants to CONSERVATION NW, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION NW?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,499,536 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION NW 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 112 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