Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,495,767 to it, the largest being The Oregon Community Foundation ($2,464,803). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Burning Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared funders
- Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundationportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 8% · 2021 74% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $189k → $506k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 37% · 2019 88% · 2020 85% · 2021 34% · 2022 40% · 2023 30% — 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
35% of OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
74% of OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Burning Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchWA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tareen Filgas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lazar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earth Day Oregonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wild Salmon Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wheeler Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundationshared funderslocalOR · backs 144 organizations that share your funders · funds 314 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record — $1000k federal, $2.6M state.
- Department of Agriculture$565k
- Department of the Interior$434k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$2.0M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$327k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$121k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$80k
- OTHER SERVICES$8k
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 OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Owhf LLC · disregarded
- Foley Creek Property LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,495,767 to it, the largest being The Oregon Community Foundation ($2,464,803). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,495,767 in grants to OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- The Oregon Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,464,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 34funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing