Colorado · Nonprofit
West Region Wildfire Council
West Region Wildfire Council (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,688 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($209,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $298k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What West Region Wildfire Council does
Mission
Increases resilience to wildfire in Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel Counties in Colorado
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Fuels Program directly supports vegetation management fuels reduction/mitigation projects in high wildfire risk areas within the region. The fuels program offers a vegetation management cost share program which provides technical and financial assistance to plan and implement strategic fuel breaks, defensible space projects and other priority fuels reduction projects.The fuels program has resulted in wildfire risk reduction on 7,718 private wildland urban interface acres helping to protect hundreds of at risk homes.
$671,334 spent55% of program spendingWorks to address the wildfire issue at multiple scales. Our programmatic pillars include:Understanding and assessing wildfire risk-at landscape, community and parcel scales.Emphasizing education-to elevate understanding of the wildfire issue and the emerging science related to techniques/ strategies for mitigating wilfire risk in efforts to further the discourse between community members, wilfire managers and others under the fire adapted communities umbrellaEmpowering measurable wilfire mitigation via, on site in person visits with trained wilfire mtigation specialists, delivery of site specific wilfire risk reducation recommendations, technical field assistance for designing and laying out fuels reduction, defensible space and vegetation management.Increasing the pace of multi scale wildfire adaptation in priorty high risk areas to complete measurable wildfire risk reduction activites that result in increased community and ecosystem resiliency.
$547,730 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,219,064.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $906k to $1.2M (+34%).
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: 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 92% · 2023 98% · 2024 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of West Region Wildfire Council’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
John Bennett
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $300.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 West Region Wildfire 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
West Region Wildfire Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 West Region Wildfire Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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
West Region Wildfire Council draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
West Region Wildfire Council has grown faster than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding West Region Wildfire Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$895k
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 West Region Wildfire Council
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West Region Wildfire 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds West Region Wildfire Council?
- West Region Wildfire Council (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,688 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($209,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Region Wildfire Council have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $297,688 in grants to West Region Wildfire Council, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Region Wildfire Council?
- NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $209,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Region Wildfire Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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