Colorado · Nonprofit
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,635,969 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($1,693,500). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Western Landowners Alliance does
Mission
The organization was organized to work to advance policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species. The vision is a future in which working lands remain whole, healthy and prosperous, providing for quality livelihoods, strong communities, thriving wildlife populations, and abundant natural resources. The programs are dedicated to assisting communities through training, assistance and education.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Stewardship: facilitating the exchange of knowledge and information among practitioners to inform and support the stewardship of land and natural resources. Includes forums, field tours, webinars, publications and films. Also includes ensuring science and technical assistance is broadly available to land managers. Establishing a website to serve as a platform for the dissemination of information. This program affects the general public.
$2,453,278 spent$51,874 earned by the program82% of program spendingPolicy: seeking out opportunities to improve policies in support of conservation and stewardship on public and private land. Including issues such as federal land management, forest and rangeland health, wildlife conservation and water resource management. The program affects the general public.
$358,938 spent12% of program spendingCommunication: working to promote the importance and value of working lands and private stewardship, and to improve public understanding and public dialogue on these issues. This is accomplished through multiple channels,including film media outreach, newsletters, public speaking, website, social media, publications and through a diverse network of partners. This program affects the general public.
$185,385 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,997,601.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $3.2M (+56%).
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 8% · 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 10% · 2024 41% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Lesli Allison
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Wendy Millet
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $498k → $2.5M.
13 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 59% · 2019 36% · 2020 34% · 2021 23% · 2022 14% · 2023 28% — 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
54% of WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $393k on record — $200k federal, $193k state.
- Department of Agriculture$200k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$160k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$33k
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 WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: 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 WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE?
- WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE (Colorado) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,635,969 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($1,693,500). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $11,635,969 in grants to WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE?
- THORNBURG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,693,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 65 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