Idaho · Nonprofit
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC (Idaho) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,455,837 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,830,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Idaho Conservation League Inc does
Mission
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Protecting idaho's public lands: icl advocates for the sustainable management of idaho's public lands and the fish and wildlife that depend on them. Our staff engage communities, stakeholders, and agency administrators across the state to ensure that forests, rangelands, wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities on federal lands are managed responsibly. We also promote the conservation of native species such as sage grouse, grizzly bears, wolverines, bison, and bull trout.
$497,967 spentof which $1,000 as grants$1,081 earned by the program23% of program spendingRecovering idaho's wild salmon and steelhead: icl partners with tribes, local communities, and regional organizations to recover idaho's wild salmon and steelhead. We build public support for removing the four lower snake river dams and advance interim conservation measures to prevent these iconic fish from going extinct while long-term solutions are pursued.
$628,389 spentof which $32,150 as grants29% of program spendingConfronting climate change: icl works to reduce idaho's contribution to the global climate crisis by advocating for cleaner, cheaper energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal power. We engage in land-use and energy policy decisions to support responsible siting of renewable energy and transmission projects, and we advocate for a western energy market that lowers electricity costs and expands access to renewable resources across the region.
$254,429 spent12% of program spendingSnake river, north idaho lakes and water: icl worked to make the snake river across southern idaho safe, fishable and swimmable again, worked to ensure the enforcement of regulated discharges and reduce the amount of unregulated agricultural surface runoff and nitrate-laden groundwater discharges to the snake river, worked to create a framework for a joint state/federal/tribal/private basin-wide terrestrial and aquatic restoration plan. We engaged in a program to monitor the health of northern idaho lakes and rivers, and encourage policy that protects water quality.
$195,998 spent9% of program spendingPollution reduction
$188,795 spent9% of program spendingUnited payette
$29,156 spent1% of program spendingWildlife
$209,740 spent10% of program spendingNid lakes
$139,973 spent7% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,144,447.
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.
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 $7.5M to $8.9M (+19%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Justin Hayes
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Dewitt
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $642k → $1.5M.
20 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
37% 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 IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 30% · 2019 34% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 12% · 2023 15% — 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
58% of IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M 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.
Government funding IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$30k
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 IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: 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 IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC?
- IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC (Idaho) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,455,837 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,830,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $10,455,837 in grants to IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,830,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 111 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