Oregon · Nonprofit
UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL
UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,650 to it, the largest being Wild Salmon Center ($506,062). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- American Rivers Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Bonneville Environmental Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Columbia Pacific Economic Developmelocal
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.
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 92% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $74k.
From the IRS filings of UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED 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
UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 66% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
79% of UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- American Rivers Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bonneville Environmental Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchOR · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Columbia Pacific Economic DevelopmelocalOR · funds 34 organizations near you
- Waterkeeper Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Watersheds United Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Pennsylvania Watershedsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Watershed Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association of Conservation Districtsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Restore America's Estuariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Natural Lands Managementshared fundersCA · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record — $876k federal, $2.0M state.
- Department of Agriculture$786k
- Department of the Interior$90k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.7M
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$269k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$848
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 UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,650 to it, the largest being Wild Salmon Center ($506,062). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $685,650 in grants to UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- Wild Salmon Center is the largest funder on record, with $506,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER NEHALEM WATERSHED 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.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing