Washington · Nonprofit
THE LANDS COUNCIL
THE LANDS COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,741 to it, the largest being PATAGONIAORG ($87,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $969k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $473k
- Net assets
- $169k
What The Lands Council does
Mission
Preserves and revitalizes our inland northwest forests, water, and wildlife through advocacy, education, effective action, and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public lands and wildlife program: tlc's public lands and wildlife program seeks to protect old growth, improve forest management, permanently protect roadless areas, and increase populations of rare, threatened, and endangered species on public lands in the inland northwest. To achieve our goals, we use science, collaboration, and when necessary, litigation. We participate in forest management projects in ne washington and n idaho. We have helped start four collaborative groups on three national forests that include diverse stakeholder.
$207,143 spent$6,840 earned by the program25% of program spendingWatershed protection and restoration program: tlc's watershed program works in the spokane and coeur d'alene river watersheds to restore water quality. We improve streamside habitat by planting native trees and plants, work to reduce toxics flowing into water bodies with unique project that capture and clean polluted stormwater. Out beaver coexistence program helps landowners coexist with beavers, allowing beaver-derived ecosystem services such as wetland creation and water storage to flourish on the landscape.
$172,359 spent21% of program spendingClimate justice and urban ecology program: tlc's climate justice program involves working with low income and underserved communities to inform them about efforts to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals in their environment. Our spocanopy program works with the city of spokane to plant free street trees in the urban forest in areas of low canopy cover. Our project sustain works with middle and high school students in our region to give them hands-on, outdoor, and ecologically based learning activities. We also work to reduce the impacts of climate change by advocating for the use of clean and renewable energy.
$128,461 spent15% of program spendingOther programs $60,380mill creek program $266,885
$327,265 spent39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $835,228.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $47k to $145k (+208%).
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: 2022 59% · 2023 55% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE LANDS COUNCIL’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 8 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $52k → $72k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 THE LANDS 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
THE LANDS COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
34% 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 THE LANDS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 44% · 2019 88% · 2020 28% · 2021 51% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% — 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
22% of THE LANDS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
THE LANDS COUNCIL draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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
THE LANDS COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE LANDS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of the Interior$10k
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 THE LANDS 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 THE LANDS 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 THE LANDS COUNCIL?
- THE LANDS COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,741 to it, the largest being PATAGONIAORG ($87,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LANDS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $472,741 in grants to THE LANDS COUNCIL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LANDS COUNCIL?
- PATAGONIAORG is the largest funder on record, with $87,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LANDS COUNCIL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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