Washington · Nonprofit
PHOENIX CONSERVANCY
PHOENIX CONSERVANCY (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,758 to it, the largest being STOCKEL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($180,300). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $940k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $314k
- Net assets
- $150k
What Phoenix Conservancy does
Mission
The Phoenix Conservancy's mission is to restore endangered ecosystems globally for the communities that depend on them and the conservation of biodiversity. We seek out the most critically-endangered ecosystems (10% or less intact) on a Local (Palouse prairie), National (Great Plains prairie), and Global (Madagascar rainforest) scale, where we use ecosystem restoration to combat 1) biodiversity loss, 2) climate change and resulting insecurity, desertification, and erosion, and 3) poverty and economic strife.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Madagascar program for The Phoenix Conservancy (TPC) supports restoration and fire protection for rainforest in Madagascar. We continued firebreak construction and initiated reforestation at hundreds of new sites, created thousands of local employment opportunities, and continued developing sustainable alternate livelihood projects in the region. In addition to continuing employment opportunities, and continued developing sustainable alternate livelihood projects in the region. In addition to continuing it possible for thousands of individuals to survive the world's first famine induced by climate change.
$160,325 spent$376,457 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe Palouse Prairie program supports restoration of endangered Palouse Prairie in southeastern Washington. Funding was used to develop new restoration programs and sites, plant thousands of native plants and seeds, remove invasive species, convert waste biomass into biochar, and conduct activities related to restoring native prairie across the region.
$374,763 spent$231,113 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe Organizational Capacity program supports the growth of TPC as a young conservation nonprofit. Funding was used to purchase equipment, expand publicity efforts, and expand our capacity to execute our mission. This year, funds allocated to this program were directed towards overhead, salaries, administrative costs and other costs reflected in Management & General Expenses.
$149,593 spent$334,577 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe Great Plains program for The Phoenix Conservancy (TPC) supports restoration and native plant cultivation in support of restoration in the Great Plains. This year, on-site seed collection was conducted in central South Dakota, native plants were planted in restoration sites, and collected seeds of native plants were cleaned, processed, and either used to expand native plant horticulture for future seed production, or returned to be sown as part of greater restoration efforts in the region.
$45,780 spent$66,127 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $730,461.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $28k to $150k (+432%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 10% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of PHOENIX CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Christopher Duke
Executive Director, Board Member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $101k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PHOENIX CONSERVANCY’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
PHOENIX CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 82% · 2022 53% · 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
100% of PHOENIX CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 1 year 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
PHOENIX CONSERVANCY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PHOENIX CONSERVANCY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PHOENIX CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $103k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$103k
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 PHOENIX CONSERVANCY
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 PHOENIX CONSERVANCY: 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 PHOENIX CONSERVANCY?
- PHOENIX CONSERVANCY (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,758 to it, the largest being STOCKEL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($180,300). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHOENIX CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $313,758 in grants to PHOENIX CONSERVANCY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX CONSERVANCY?
- STOCKEL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOENIX CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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