Washington · Nonprofit
DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION
DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $696k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $250k
- Net assets
- $369k
What Department of Bioregion does
Mission
The Department of Bioregion's mission is a "world of interconnected bioregions and bioregional movements". It does this by creating departments of bioregions around the world and, providing administrative support to bioregional organizing teams, bioregional movements, education about specific bioregions, and ways of regenerating that bioregion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Cascadia Department of Bioregion advances place-based education, organizing, and systems change across the Cascadia bioregion. In 2024-2025, CDOB supported the growth of the Cascadia movement and the Cascadia bioregion through research, writing, and publishing on bioregionalism; provided tools, trainings, and nonprofit infrastructure to help communities reconnect with their ecosystems; and led public awareness campaigns to promote Cascadian identity and resilience. CDOB also ran the Cascadia Store, coordinated membership programs, and defended the Cascadia Flag in a movement trust to ensure it remains in the public domain. It organized educational events, regional gatherings, and the Cascadia Northwest Arts and Music Festival, which brought together over 1,000 people to celebrate bioregional culture and community.
$219,229 spent$232,816 earned by the program56% of program spendingDuring the 2024-2025 fiscal year, Regenerate Cascadia formalized its two core programs: Cascadia BioRegen, which supports place-based organizing and community capacity building across the bioregion, and Cascadia BioFi, which develops bioregional finance strategies and funding ecosystems aligned with community priorities. In partnership with the Design School for Regenerating Earth, Regenerate Cascadia hosted its second annual six-month Cascadia Learning Journey cohort, growing participation to over 100 people and hiring a dedicated cohort coordinator to strengthen onboarding, facilitation, and participant pathways into local organizing. In May 2025, the organization convened the inaugural Cascadia BioFi Conference in Seattle, a three-day gathering of over 300 land stewards, Indigenous leaders, funders, community organizers, and practitioners exploring bioregional approaches to regenerative finance. The conference established shared frameworks for trust-based giving, flow funding, and community-directed resource allocation. Building on these foundations, Regenerate Cascadia launched its Landscape Groups program and opened its flagship Landscape Hub Cultivator in October 2025,…
$173,171 spent$19,560 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe Departments of Bioregion program is the organization's top level program, providing global infrastructure, education and organizing for bioregional movements to launch and thrive. It operates through three components. Bioregional Seeds delivers mapping research, education, publications, workshops and classes helping people understand and reconnect to the living systems of their bioregion. Bioregional Roots provides Administrative Program Services for internal operations and nonprofit best practice training, alongside a Fiscal Sponsorship Program extending our 501(c)(3) infrastructure to aligned external projects. Bioregional Branches supports locally led teams in launching place-based Departments of Bioregion in their own watersheds, providing replicable frameworks, templates, mentorship and nonprofit backend for grants and donations. In FY2024-2025, the program piloted its first branch onboarding framework for bioregional teams outside Cascadia, strengthened fiscal sponsorship and administrative systems, and continued producing bioregional mapping resources and educational materials. Each component is designed to be replicable, adaptable and scalable as a living framework for…
$282 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $392,682.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $244k to $419k (+72%).
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.
70% of DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Brandon Letsinger
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION’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.
Where its funders are
DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION?
- DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250,000 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250,000 in grants to DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION.
- Who is the largest funder of DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEPARTMENT OF BIOREGION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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