Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION
WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,003,304 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($1,872,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $897k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $163k
What Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation does
Mission
The foundation board is comprised of members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who devote their shared commitment and passion to collectively support protection and restoration of the washington coast region salmon by providing resources and helping guide ecosystem and science-based, community-informed approaches. The board supports the highest priority needs of the coast salmon partnership with an emphasis on outcomes that are resistent to long-term change. The foundation secures diverse public and private funds to empower the partnership's durable salmon recovery outcomes in watersheds throughout the washington coast region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation (foundation) is the sister organization and fiscal sponsor of the washington coast sustainable salmon partnership (partnership). Together, the two organizations work to protect and restore pacific salmon populations in the washington coast region, which comprises all watersheds that drain directly into the pacific ocean between cape flattery and cape disappointment (3.75 million acres). This work is guided by the washington coast sustainable salmon plan (salmon plan). The foundation is responsible for financial management, contracting, fundraising, and outreach needed for the partnership to successfully implement the salmon plan. Foundation staff support both plan implementation and financial, fundraising, and outreach activities. Salmon plan implementation: implementation of the salmon plan includes coordinating with local watershed groups on the strategic development and prioritization of habitat restoration projects, which are then proposed for funding through eligible funding sources. Each year, an average of 1.7 million on-the-ground habitat restoration and protection projects are implemented in the region through grants from…
$763,757 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $763,757.
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 2019 to 2020, from $238k to $638k (+169%).
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: 2018 86% · 2019 81% · 2020 46% · 2021 40% · 2022 39% · 2023 40% · 2024 45% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Christine Drivdahl
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $750 → $560k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION’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
WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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
WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201 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
WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $123k on record.
- Department of the Interior$99k
- Department of Commerce$24k
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 WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION: 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 WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION?
- WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,003,304 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($1,872,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,003,304 in grants to WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION?
- RESOURCES LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,872,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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