Oregon · Nonprofit
KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER
KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,552,077 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $841k
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $924k
What Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center does
Mission
KS Wilds mission is to protect and restore wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northwest California.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rogue Riverkeeper: Our Rogue Riverkeeper program downsized in 2023, as long-standing grantors and foundations pulled back support following the completion of our campaign on Jordan Cove LNG. However, our personnel still managed to advocate for, and support, measures that promote clean water and fish habitat. Rogue Riverkeeper worked with community members to officially name and protect Blue Heron Creek in Phoenix. We also sought and received protection for a springs complex in the same area that would have been paved and built upon. The unhoused population living along riparian areasespecially along Bear Creek continues to be a challenge that crosses jurisdictions and authorities. As a small non-profit organization, Rogue Riverkeeper participated in collaboratives like the Bear Creek Restoration Initiative where partners including Jackson County and other city representatives work to protect the ecological function of Bear Creek and its riparian area while supporting humane and safe conditions for all community members. We helped pass the Living with Beaver bill that will help private landowners improve waterways and wetlands in the state. Jet boats on the Upper Rogue remained a…
$218,785 spent28% of program spendingForestWatch Program: Thousands of supporters spoke up over the course of the year to weigh in on local timber sales and other projects. With the help of litigation partners, conservation allies, and local community members, our efforts to protect wildlife and forests: Protected and retained old-growth forests surrounding Lake of the Woods on the Fremont-Winema National Forest. Filed a legal challenge to the Medford District BLMs plan to accelerate old-growth logging in the Late Successional Reserve land use allocation. Prevented logging the Late Mungers and Penn Butte old-growth timber sales above the community of Williams. Oregon. Thwarted salvage logging clearcutting and road construction on steep-erosive decomposed granitic slopes in the headwaters of the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest. Convinced the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to drop or modify hundreds of acres of logging that would have removed late-successional Northern spotted owl habitat. Achieved in the modification, improvement or cancelation of numerous projects across the region. Prevailed in litigation to protect Oregon spotted frog fens and wetlands from grazing near the community of Chemult.
$226,152 spent29% of program spendingClimate Program: KS Wild worked extensively on two national rulemaking efforts to advance protections for old growth and mature forests. The National Old Growth Amendment and Northwest Forest Plan amendment are efforts to change some of the underlying guidelines for how our public forests are managed. KS Wild members submitted over 1,000 comments (adding to the 500,000 comments nationwide) to the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior advocating for durable protections for mature and old-growth forests. We also hosted our 2nd annual Forest Defender Training Series, with more than 100 community members submitting several hundred personal emails and postcards to elected leaders.
$210,781 spent27% of program spendingAll other conservation programs & outreach
$124,923 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $780,641.
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 2019 to 2020, from $612k to $1.4M (+121%).
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER’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. 4 of the last 8 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
Michael Dotson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $245k → $476k.
13 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 28% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $677k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER?
- KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,552,077 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,552,077 in grants to KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER?
- WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49 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