Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON WILD
WASHINGTON WILD (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,863,586 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($251,155). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $967k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Washington Wild does
Mission
Washington Wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wildland advocacy - in 2023, wa wild built a coalition of more than 140 diverse stakeholders and generated nearly 300 public comments from our supporters alone to help lead the grassroots effort to designate the cascade, green & napeequa rivers as the first-ever outstanding resource waters (orw) in washington state by the washington department of ecology. Orw designation will provide meaningful protection for these rivers by prohibiting any future degradation of water quality. Additionally, wa wild played a key role in gaining approval for the protection of more than 2,000 acres of state forest lands through the trust land transfer program by the governor, wa department of natural resrources and the state legislature.
$264,463 spent65% of program spendingWildlands defense - in 2023, wa wild led statewide efforts to oppose threats to wildlands and waters from mining, unsustainable old-growth logging, new dam construction, and other development. In january, we saw the old growth forest protections under the roadless rule restored by the biden administration, after wa wild led efforts in washington state in support of these protections. In june, wa wild coordinated a letter signed by 28 organizations and generated 106 grassroots comments to defend the alpine lakes wilderness against potential impacts from proposed dam construction.
$61,030 spent15% of program spendingOutreach & education - in 2023, wa wild continued to educate and mobilize washington residents around wildlands and waters issues. We held 27 community engagement & outreach events with 1,800 event attendees. Wa wild generated 15 action alerts resulting in more than 3,000 messages to decision makers and coordinated 12 sign-on letters with more than 600 signatories to support salmon recovery, legislative protections on the olympic peninsula, trust land transfer and washington's first ever outstanding resource designations. In partnership with this is indian country, wa wild launched the indigenous climate project featuring a website that highlights 25 interviews with pacific northwest tribal leaders sharing oral histories and technical ecological knowledge (tek) about the impacts and innovative solutions indigenous communities are developing to address it, presented in a broadcast documentary format.
$81,373 spent20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $406,866.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.0M to $1.3M (+30%).
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 5% · 2019 7% · 2020 22% · 2021 15% · 2022 3% · 2023 8% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WASHINGTON WILD’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. 4 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Tom Uniack
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $180k → $404k.
11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 WILD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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 WILD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
45% 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 WILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 39% · 2019 24% · 2020 18% · 2021 35% · 2022 42% · 2023 50% — 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
38% of WASHINGTON WILD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
WASHINGTON WILD draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $735k 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
WASHINGTON WILD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WASHINGTON WILD
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 WASHINGTON WILD: 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 WILD?
- WASHINGTON WILD (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,863,586 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($251,155). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON WILD have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,863,586 in grants to WASHINGTON WILD, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON WILD?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $251,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON WILD 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 37 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