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SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL

SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,050 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($305,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$346k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$807k
11/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Soda Mountain Wilderness Council does

Mission

The mission of the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council is to protect and promote wilderness in the soda mountain/pilot rock area. The mission includes education of the general public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Protecting and promoting wilderness in the soda mountain/pilot rock area, and education of the general public.

    $305,212 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $305,212.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($324k) Expenses 100 ($253k) Net assets 100 ($677k)2019 Revenue 85 ($275k) Expenses 109 ($276k) Net assets 100 ($675k)2020 Revenue 82 ($266k) Expenses 86 ($218k) Net assets 107 ($723k)2021 Revenue 89 ($287k) Expenses 101 ($256k) Net assets 111 ($754k)2022 Revenue 78 ($252k) Expenses 93 ($235k) Net assets 114 ($771k)2023 Revenue 95 ($309k) Expenses 112 ($285k) Net assets 118 ($795k)2024 Revenue 98 ($316k) Expenses 126 ($319k) Net assets 117 ($793k)2025 Revenue 107 ($346k) Expenses 131 ($332k) Net assets 119 ($807k)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (131)Net assets (119)

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 $678k to $728k (+7%).

$679k
$678k
$728k
$757k
$774k
$798k
$796k
$810k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
’18
−$1k
’19
$48k
’20
$31k
’21
$17k
’22
$25k
’23
−$2k
’24
$14k
’25
29
months of
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.

Board chair

Dave Willis

President/chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed66576666
Joined·+0+0+2+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0101000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $143k → $216k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL’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

SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL 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

51% 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 SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL.

25%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 26% · 2019 50% · 2020 48% · 2021 51% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — 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

30% of SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.

WA
NY
OR
CA
CO
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $598k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL: 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 SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL?
SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,050 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($305,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,205,050 in grants to SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $305,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 14 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