Washington · Nonprofit
Tri-Cities CARES
Tri-Cities CARES (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Tri-Cities CARES does
Mission
To support local conservation of wildlife their ecosystems and local decision-making. Our goal is to protect the critical wildlife habitats and cultural resources reduce the intrusive visual impacts of wind turbines on people who live in the adjacent residential neighborhoods and preserve the natural landscapes that make our communities unique healthy and beautiful.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Public Outreach - To educate the public on how to support local conservation of wildlife & their ecosystems and to encourage local decision-making on renewable energy project siting. Through local newspaper articles radio interviews in-person presentations meetings with city councils chambers tourism entities rotary clubs real estate agencies and regional legislative representatives www.tricitiescares.org website updates Facebook Instagram and email campaigns Tri-Cities C.A.R.E.S. was able to reach thousands of people who will be impacted by this project.
$3,037 spent2% of program spendingAttorney - To provide legal services to Tri-Cities C.A.R.E.S. on the Horse Heaven Hills Wind Solar Project. Legal representation resulted in Tri-Cities C.A.R.E.S. being a named intervenor in adjudicative proceedings where impacts to the habitat and migration of the endangered Ferruginous Hawk birds bats and ground-dwelling wildlife were significantly reduced. Aerial firefighting tribal cultural property and visual impacts were also significantly minimized because of our intervention.
$115,373 spent81% of program spendingExpert Witnesses - To provide expert witness testimony on behalf of Tri-Cities C.A.R.E.S. an approved intervenor in the adjudicative proceedings for the Horse Heaven Hills Wind Solar Project. Experts in real estate appraisals visual impacts and wind metrics provided testimony that resulted in major reductions in project scope.
$24,861 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $143,271.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $16k to $68k (+331%).
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.
100% of Tri-Cities CARES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Tri-Cities CARES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Tri-Cities CARES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
Tri-Cities CARES's revenue fell 65% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tri-Cities CARES: 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 Tri-Cities CARES?
- Tri-Cities CARES (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Tri-Cities CARES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to Tri-Cities CARES.
- Who is the largest funder of Tri-Cities CARES?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tri-Cities CARES 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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