Oregon · Nonprofit
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,019,726 to it, the largest being LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ($271,427). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $621k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $14M
What The Wetlands Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land acquisition and stewardship the organization uses land acquisition as a tool in securing oregons remaining wetland ecosystems. Where possible, the organization works to secure lands in partnership with a local community partner, agency, or tribe who will then take on perpetual ownership. Currently the organization has fee title properties in washington county, multnomah county, coos county, clatsop county, lincoln county, tillamook county, and clackamas county. These properties are stewarded and managed to enhance and maintain ecological processes and benefits, native plans and wildlife habitat, and to consider public and tribal access where appropriate. In addition to fee title properties, the organization stewards conservation easements on wetlands with private ownership. All properties are monitored annually and records kept in accordance with the land trust alliances accreditation standards.
$380,164 spent83% of program spendingCommunications, advocacy, and outreach in our ideal future, every oregonian understands the importance of wetlands to a healthy and climate resilient landscape. At twc we know that people must experience places to really care about them and stand up for them. The organization operates many community outreach programs including volunteer community science surveys, stewardship and clean up events, and wetland tours with students and community groups. Additionally, we aim to educate via our website, social media and other virtual channels about the value of wetlands and what individuals can do to help ensure they are here for many generations. We believe that the value of wetlands should be shared equitably by all, and work to advance justice alongside our work of land conservation.
$75,303 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $455,467.
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 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $14M (−3%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 53% · 2024 47% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of The Wetlands Conservancy Inc’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 9 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 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $118k → $81k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Wetlands Conservancy Inc’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 Wetlands Conservancy Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
78% 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 Wetlands Conservancy Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 48% · 2019 41% · 2020 60% · 2021 39% · 2022 32% · 2023 19% — 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
42% of The Wetlands Conservancy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 Wetlands Conservancy Inc draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $447k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Wetlands Conservancy Inc's revenue fell 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding The Wetlands Conservancy Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $251k on record — $135k federal, $116k state.
- Department of the Interior$135k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$70k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$45k
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 Wetlands Conservancy Inc
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Wetlands Conservancy Inc: 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 Wetlands Conservancy Inc?
- The Wetlands Conservancy Inc (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,019,726 to it, the largest being LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ($271,427). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Wetlands Conservancy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,019,726 in grants to The Wetlands Conservancy Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Wetlands Conservancy Inc?
- LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $271,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Wetlands Conservancy Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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