Oregon · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER
NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $984,808 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($430,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $985k
- Net assets
- $190k
What Northwest Environmental Defense Center does
Mission
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments & communities value fostering and maintaining healthy and productive ecosystems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clean water & air campaign: continued our work developing and prosecuting clean water act enforcement actions. Nedc's clean water act enforcement work in 2025 included continuing to monitor oregon industrial facilities; engaging with state agencies in the revision of environmental permitting and authorization decisions; and challenging water quality permitting decisions that fail to sufficiently protect the region's waters. Nedc's clean air work in 2025 included monitoring facilities called in to the cleaner air oregon program; partnership in the breathe oregon collaborative to reduce the risk of harm to public health and the environment posed by diesel emissions; engaging with state agencies to update toxicity reference values for industrial facilities; and advocacy to protect overburdened portland communities from industrial emissions. This work benefits anyone using affected waterways and breathing air in the portland metropolitan area and throughout the pacific northwest, including nedc members and the general public.
$98,835 spent$68,148 earned by the program48% of program spendingEndangered species: working with partner organizations, nedc sought to improve conditions for endangered and oregon aquatic species. This work included litigation to protect threatened salmon, steelhead, and orcas from harmful development in floodplains. This work benefits the general public, local activists, and nedc members.
$50,951 spent25% of program spendingEducation & outreach programs: continued to provide students and concerned citizens with educational workshops relating to laws that can be used to protect the region's environment. Activities included giving law students hands-on experience working on environmental issues, publishing an annual newsletter & maintaining an educational website. Nedc also partnered with other organizations to address environmental justice issues in the portland area. This work benefits the general public, nedc members, and law students in the northwest.
$55,381 spent$12,066 earned by the program27% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $205,167.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $312k to $178k (−43%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 42% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $41k → $201k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER’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
NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 86% · 2018 82% · 2019 70% · 2020 43% · 2021 74% · 2022 62% · 2023 50% — 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
38% of NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER draws 51% 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. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: 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 NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER?
- NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $984,808 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($430,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $984,808 in grants to NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE 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.
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 11 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