Washington · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,662 to it, the largest being KELLER FOUNDATION ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $145k
What Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge does
Mission
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting educational programs, increasing public awareness, and protecting and enhancing the natural and cultural resources of the ridgefield national wildlife refuge and lower columbia river area in washington including management and education programs related to the cathlapolte plankhouse.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Habitat restoration on the ridgefield national wildlife refuge
$5,550 spent16% of program spendingBirdfest is an event in which the organization invites the public into the refuge in order to acquaint them, over the course of a week of education, with the restoration work on the habitat and species preservation work at the ridgefield national wildlife refuge.
$7,502 spent21% of program spendingEducation for the habitat and preservation work at the ridgefield national wildlife refuge.
$22,558 spent63% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $190k to $147k (−23%).
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: 2018 70% · 2019 78% · 2020 74% · 2023 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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
Samantha Ziener
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $557 → $266.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE’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
FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 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
100% of FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE is better cushioned than half of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.3M
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 FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
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
32% 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 FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: 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 FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE?
- FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,662 to it, the largest being KELLER FOUNDATION ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $111,662 in grants to FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE?
- KELLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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