Oregon · Nonprofit
WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY
WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY (Oregon) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,152,088 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,286,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 157 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 157 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared funders
- The Lazar Foundationportfolio match
- Harder Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 5% · 2018 1% · 2019 10% · 2020 0% · 2021 41% · 2022 11% · 2023 47% · 2024 44% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.8M.
25 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Western Rivers Forestry). These are real filings, and they are not money WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 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 RIVERS CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
52% 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 RIVERS CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 15% — 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
43% of WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 RIVERS CONSERVANCY draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 127 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- The Lazar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonneville Environmental Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wild Salmon Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Holocene Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wheeler Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 132 organizations that share your funders
- Clark Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Onpoint Community Credit Unionshared fundersOR · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- Wyss Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $511k on record — $50k federal, $461k state.
- Department of the Interior$50k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$398k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$50k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$13k
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 RIVERS CONSERVANCY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Western Rivers Forestry · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY?
- WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY (Oregon) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,152,088 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,286,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $14,152,088 in grants to WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,286,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY 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.
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 127funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing