Idaho · Nonprofit
WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC
WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC (Idaho) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,217,308 to it, the largest being SAGEBRUSH HABITAT CONSERVATION FUND INC ($4,750,507). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $621k
What Western Watershed Projects Inc does
Mission
To protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy intiatives and legal advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Monitoring - identify damaged watersheds and document abusive land management practices. Report the following: - livestock numbers on grazing allotments - turnout times - abusive grazing - degredation of streams and stream banks - destruction of riparian and upland habitat - degredation of cultural, historic, archaeological and scenis resources - illegal diversions of water - negative impacts to wilderness values, roadless areas, wilderness study areas and designated wilderness.
$951,285 spent56% of program spendingRestoration and education - western waterheds project successfully brings the organization's conservation campaign to teh attention of national press and policymakers. In the last five years, more than 450 news stories have appeared about the work of wwp.
$407,694 spent24% of program spendingLitigation - protect imperiled wildlife, public lands, and western watersheds through vigorous litigation under the endangered species act, clean water act, federal land policy management act, and other statutes that protect the environment. The organization holds over 4,000 acreas of school endowment land leaseholds obtained through competitive bidding that are being managed for wildlife habitat and conservation purposes.
$339,744 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,698,723.
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 2019 to 2020, from $366k to $704k (+93%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
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 broadened from 13 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $440k → $1.3M.
14 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 WATERSHED PROJECTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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 WATERSHED PROJECTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 WATERSHED PROJECTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 56% · 2019 68% · 2020 61% · 2021 72% · 2022 52% · 2023 45% — 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
57% of WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
75% of WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC's grant income comes from Idaho funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 WATERSHED PROJECTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC?
- WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC (Idaho) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,217,308 to it, the largest being SAGEBRUSH HABITAT CONSERVATION FUND INC ($4,750,507). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $8,217,308 in grants to WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC?
- SAGEBRUSH HABITAT CONSERVATION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,750,507 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN WATERSHED PROJECTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 53 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