Oregon · Nonprofit
COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,861 to it, the largest being WILD SALMON CENTER ($912,225). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $672k
What Coos Watershed Association does
Mission
To support environmental integrity and economic stability within the coos watershed by increasing community capacity to develop, test, promote, and implement management practices in the interests of watershed health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration: we are dedicated to creating healthy stream habitats through both in-stream and riparian restoration efforts. In-stream restoration focuses on improving the physical structure of streams by placing wood features like log jams, upgrading stream crossing infrastructure, meandering channels, and pulling back eroded banks. These efforts restore natural stream functions and enhance habitats for fish and other aquatic life.riparian restoration targets the areas alongside streams to improve water quality and stabilize banks. This includes planting endemic trees and shrubs, installing fencing to protect sensitive areas, and creating off-channel watering sources for livestock. These practices reduce sedimentation and water temperatures, helping the entire ecosystem.a key part of riparian restoration is addressing the spread of invasive species. As endemic plants are replaced by ornamental or invasive ones, the ecological food web begins to unravel. To support endemic biodiversity, we operate an endemic plant nursery capable of producing up to 20,000 plants annually for use in restoration projects. We also monitor and control noxious weeds that threaten coastal habitats and…
$1,911,896 spent$288,724 earned by the program78% of program spendingMonitoring: effective, on-the-ground monitoring is essential to the success of our restoration efforts. Across the coos watershed, we track key indicators of watershed health, including stream flow, water quality, habitat conditions, and fish abundance and migration. This data helps us evaluate the impact of our work and identify priorities for future restoration.our monitoring program plays a vital role in assessing the status and trends of coho salmon populations, as well as tracking water quality and hydrology throughout coos basin streams. In addition to long-term ecological monitoring, we also conduct implementation and effectiveness monitoring for our in-stream and riparian restoration projects. This ensures that our projects not only meet their immediate goals but also support lasting improvements in watershed health.
$366,882 spent15% of program spendingCommunity engagement: we believe that lasting watershed health depends on strong community connections. Through volunteer events, nursery work days, festivals, workshops, service projects, and hands-on career mentoring and internship programs, we engage people of all ages in meaningful, place-based experiences. These programs foster environmental stewardship, connect individuals to local resources, and emphasize the shared responsibility we all have in caring for our watershed.our youth engagement efforts include partnerships with all three local high schools, where students learn practical restoration skills while improving the ecological health of their school campuses. Coos Watershed Association's summer youth program gives students the opportunity to work on meaningful, community-based projects while building job skills and providing paid work experience. We offer a unique summer of environmental restoration, job readiness, and outdoor adventure. Students gain hands-on experience, contribute to real conservation efforts, and grow their connection to the environment and their community. This is all part of our efforts to support natural resource career development so that there…
$170,483 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,449,261.
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 2022 to 2023, from $974k to $1.4M (+46%).
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 55% · 2018 56% · 2019 61% · 2020 68% · 2021 82% · 2022 70% · 2023 88% · 2024 87% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION’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. 3 of the last 9 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
Haley Lutz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $82k → $166k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION’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
COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 65% · 2019 34% · 2020 81% · 2021 70% · 2022 63% · 2023 53% — 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
33% of COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
74% of COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k 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
COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record — $1.4M federal, $11.7M state.
- Department of the Interior$1.4M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$9.1M
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$1.9M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$434k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$182k
- OTHER SERVICES$9k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$4k
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 COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
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
80% 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 COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: 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 COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION?
- COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,861 to it, the largest being WILD SALMON CENTER ($912,225). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,616,861 in grants to COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION?
- WILD SALMON CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $912,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing