Washington · Nonprofit
WEED WARRIORS
WEED WARRIORS (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,099 to it, the largest being THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT ($29,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Weed Warriors does
Mission
Weed Warriors, DBA Nature Stewards Program provides opportunities to connect to nature by planting native species in habitat restoration projects, controlling noxious weeds in public parks, trails, & open spaces while educating about environmental stewardship to achieve healthier air, water & land. Provides educational & hands on events that empowers people to become environmental stewards. Provides awareness & the tools to make environmentally friendly decisions. Programs include nature stewardship presentations, invasive weed eradication workshops, hands on removal of invasive & noxious weeds & replanting with native species. The programs promote sustainability & community cohesiveness. Participants have worked storm water runoff mitigation, rain gardens, fruit orchards, food drying, pollinator gardens, planted 1,000s of plants to sequester tons of carbon and other pollutants from the air. Promotes sustainable gardening practices through display gardens and pictures. 100% volunteer!!
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Weed Warriors financial support to New Start Community ended in 2024
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Environmental Stewardship Outreach program places knowledgeable people at community events to empower individuals to become environmental stewards and inspires everyone to protect and restore the native habitat. Presentations, informational handouts, examples of native plants and answers to environmental concerns are addressed. Protecting and improving the air, water and land for future generations through educating the community, including sustainable gardening practice is what this program delivers.
$9,901 spent27% of program spendingEnvironmental Stewardship Educational Support Program.
$6,177 spent17% of program spendingMyers Way Experiential Learning Program. This environmental program removes invasive weed species and restores habitats with native plants near Myers Way Wetlands to protect the health of Puget Sound and its residents. The program mitigates past pollution runoff by supporting community based efforts to protect and improve the water quality of Puget Sound and its watersheds. The program offers volunteer participants ability to develop knowledge from a real-life hands-on environmental project broadening employment skills and expanding opportunities for a future career or job in an environmental profession.
$20,665 spent56% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $36,743.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $42k to $73k (+73%).
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: 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 37% · 2022 66% · 2023 54% · 2024 63% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WEED WARRIORS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $20.
1 of 4 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 WEED WARRIORS’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
WEED WARRIORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
95% 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 WEED WARRIORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
WEED WARRIORS draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99 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
WEED WARRIORS is better cushioned than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WEED WARRIORS
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 WEED WARRIORS: 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 WEED WARRIORS?
- WEED WARRIORS (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,099 to it, the largest being THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT ($29,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEED WARRIORS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $43,099 in grants to WEED WARRIORS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEED WARRIORS?
- THE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT is the largest funder on record, with $29,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEED WARRIORS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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