Oregon · Nonprofit
Western Liberty Network
Western Liberty Network (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,700 to it, the largest being SHAWSHANK FOUNDATION ($105,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $215k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $305k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Western Liberty Network does
Mission
WLN trains grassroots activist and marginalized people in skills which help them to advocate for themselves successfully the civic lives of their community at the local level. Typically this takes the forms of training them how to become citizen lobbyists skilled volunteers or local nonpartisan public office holders. WLN training is open to everyone regardless of their political affiliations or lack thereof.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Live on-site live online and on-demand online training on how to run for and serve in nonpartisan local elective office i.e. water boards fire boards park & rec boards how to be an effective advocate or citizen lobbyist and how to do basic grassroots root as a volunteer.
$42,563 spent33% of program spendingLive on-site field training in leadership skills coalition building holding public officials accountable ethics laws and participating in local budget processes. Approximately 3750 training units 1 person being trained in one topic constitutes 1 training unit were provided representing about 2000 people.
$42,564 spent33% of program spendingAnnual leadership and training conferences featuring breakout training sessions leadership and activist training inspirational and informative featured speakers and social events. Approximately 500 people attended these events.
$42,564 spent33% 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: $127,691.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $120k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Liberty Network’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
Western Liberty Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Western Liberty Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 47% · 2022 77% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
51% of Western Liberty Network's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $150k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Liberty Network receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $305k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Western Liberty Network
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Liberty Network: 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 Liberty Network?
- Western Liberty Network (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $304,700 to it, the largest being SHAWSHANK FOUNDATION ($105,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Western Liberty Network have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $304,700 in grants to Western Liberty Network, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Western Liberty Network?
- SHAWSHANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Western Liberty Network find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2025–2025), 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