Washington · Nonprofit
SALMON DEFENSE
SALMON DEFENSE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,642 to it, the largest being THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $590k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $668k
What Salmon Defense does
Mission
Protect and defend pacific northwest salmon and salmon habitat.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Billy frank jr pacific salmon summit - held in march 2024, the daylong event brought together hundreds of salmon advocates to address challenges and strategies to protect salmon for our common future. The summit's aim was to inspire, enlighten, and ignite the salmon recovery community through presentations about treaty rights, the status of salmon and its habitat, and critical policy issues.
$472,815 spent90% of program spendingCommunications and public outreach - this includes all expenses associated with social media, marketing, and the graphic design of outreach materials. The importance of public outreach is to increase the public's knowledge of the plight of the salmon through information and education. In 2024, Salmon Defense fund raised funds for a billy frank jr. Statue in the washington dc national statutory hall to further increase public awareness.
$51,308 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $524,123.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $444k to $623k (+40%).
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: 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SALMON DEFENSE’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 7 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
Peggan Frank
Executive director
Board chair
Nancy Shippentower-Games
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $59.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SALMON DEFENSE’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
SALMON DEFENSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 SALMON DEFENSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 53% · 2019 74% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of SALMON DEFENSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
72% of SALMON DEFENSE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.
Against its field
SALMON DEFENSE has grown faster than half of the 4,266 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SALMON DEFENSE
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
84%
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 SALMON DEFENSE: 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 SALMON DEFENSE?
- SALMON DEFENSE (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,642 to it, the largest being THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALMON DEFENSE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $202,642 in grants to SALMON DEFENSE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALMON DEFENSE?
- THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALMON DEFENSE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing