Oregon · Nonprofit
LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS
LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE BURNING FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $18k
What League of Wilderness Defenders does
Mission
To protect ecosystems and water habitats
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Conduct hikes to educate the public about endangered species and forest ecosystems, and hosts events focusing on conservation of forests.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $17k to $18k (+9%).
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.
98% of LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS’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
LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 54% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,497 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,497 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS
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.
Public support
85%
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 LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS: 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 LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS?
- LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE BURNING FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS?
- THE BURNING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAGUE OF WILDERNESS DEFENDERS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), and the filings of 5 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