Washington · Nonprofit
ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS
ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,473 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($38,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $198k
What Ecologists Without Borders does
Mission
Global assistance in environmental conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, and restoration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mulege Sustainable Fisheries Project (MSFP) - EcoWB partners with Fundación Hagamos Más Por Santa Rosalía, A.C. (FHMSR), local fishermen, and other stakeholders on the MSFP, now in its 10th year. The goal of the Project is to improve the sustainability of the small-scale fishery and the welfare of Mulegé residents who depend on the Gulf of California for food and income. No. of people who benefit: 2,000.
$41,580 spentof which $39,280 as grants47% of program spendingNairobi Reservoir Reclamation Project - EcoWB is working with the community-based organization Empower the Community (ETCO) in Nairobi, Kenya to jointly plan and implement several environmental and social improvement projects in the area of the Nairobi Reservoir. ETCO and EcoWB plan to launch a campaign to engage the community in the clean-up of tributaries flowing through the informal settlement of Kibera and into the Reservoir. No. of people who will benefit: 250,000.
$6,257 spentof which $6,002 as grants7% of program spendingEl Salvador Mangrove Restoration - Over the past two years, EcoWB has worked closely with Asociación Mangle, a community organization based in southeastern El Salvador, to lay the groundwork for a new mangrove restoration initiative. Centered on the richly biodiverse mangrove forests of Jiquilisco Bay, the first phase of the project set out to understand why some areas where mangroves have been lost are more responsive to recovery than others, and how that knowledge can help guide smarter, more effective restoration efforts. This first phase involves spatial analysis of 30 years of satellite data from Jiquilisco Bay, the country's largest and most ecologically significant mangrove forest. EcoWB is currently conducting a second phase of work that will further evaluate hydrological dynamics to identify where restoration is most feasible and what conditions must be in place to ensure success.
$15,000 spent17% of program spendingOur programs provide a meaningful way for environmental professionals to bring their scientific knowledge and practical expertise to bear for diverse ecosystem challenges. From Cameroon to Costa Rica, EcoWB provides the coordination, guidance and project support that helps partners and teams work effectively together. Our volunteer focused model enables a relatively low programmatic investment to unlock hours of professional scientific and technical expertise. During 2025, EcoWB successfully secured just enough funding to transition from 100% volunteer-led to hiring much-needed part-time programmatic staff. This allowed us to streamline, organize, and operationalize our engagement. We achieved a record number of over 4300 volunteer service hours provided to several projects around the globe.
$25,131 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,968.
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 2023 to 2024, from $115k to $177k (+53%).
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.
99% of ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Danielle Ameen Reich
Executive Director
Board chair
Stuart Buchanan
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $46.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS’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
ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS
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.
Public support
99%
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 ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: 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 ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS?
- ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,473 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($38,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $61,473 in grants to ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS?
- RESOURCES LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $38,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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