Oregon · Nonprofit
WILD SALMON RIVERS
WILD SALMON RIVERS (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,545 to it, the largest being PAULUS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $608k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $396k
- Net assets
- $842k
What Wild Salmon Rivers does
Mission
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public education, provide logistic support for... To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public education, provide logistic support for field work in remote locations, provide anti-poaching support, encourage conservation ethic and sustainable eco-tourism, public education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Tca's priorities are to galvanize anglers in a coalition to protect and enhance our iconic watersheds, which represent the lifeblood of wild steelhead and salmon. Conservation activities carried out in 2024 include: - columbia and snake river steelhead conservation- olympic peninsula steelhead conservation- willamette river steelhead and chinook conservation- north umpqua steelhead conservation [see schedule o for more information]columbia and snake river steelhead conservation - wild steelhead returning to the most prolific steelhead and salmon river on the west coast run a gauntlet as they return home. One obstacle we can ease or remove is harvest. Tca's goal is to reduce the encounter rate on wild steelhead by protecting refuge areas and reforming fishing regulations along the way. Catch and release by itself is not enough to protect wild steelhead bound for rivers such as the wind, klickitat, deschutes, john day, wenatchee, clearwater, snake, and grand ronde. Olympic peninsula steelhead conservation - olympic peninsula wild steelhead are in steep decline over the last 30 years. Tca has worked closely with the washington department of fish & wildlife to modify management…
$309,744 spent72% of program spendingInternational conservation, science, and advocacy: program includes portions of the kamchatka steelhead project, development of our northern crown initiative, and cross-border scientific and advocacy collaboration in british columbia and ontario, canada. Our science and advocacy staff work with independent and agency scientists and advocates with organizations located in canada and in other countries for the purpose of advancing and exchanging scientific and conservation knowledge about wild steelhead. Data collected through the ksp has provided the basis for over two dozen scientific papers and includes important discoveries about the relationships between anadromous and non-anadromous life histories within and between breeding populations. Through information collected from fly-caught steelhead during the life of the project, our understanding not only of asiatic steelhead but, by extension, their north american relatives and has enabled our organization to advocate for conservation efforts to further wild fish recovery in the united states. Kamchatka steelhead project: the conservation angler and moscow state university continue to be unable to conduct normal field operations.…
$52,918 spent12% of program spendingThe osprey: international journal of salmon and steelhead conservation publishes the latest scientific research, policy, news, and opinion about wild pacific salmon and steelhead conservation. Our partnerships make this possible and the conservation angler works with flyfishers international, the fly shop, wild steelhead coalition, world salmon forum, skeenawild, the steelhead society of british columbia, wild fish conservancy and independent scientists and writers. The osprey advocates for the conservation of wild steelhead and salmon stocks and the recovery of depressed populations. The osprey is governed by an editorial and management committee and a council of internationally prominent scientific advisors provides editorial guidance.
$38,749 spent9% of program spendingNatural resource agency budget advocacy: the states of idaho, washington, and oregon operate multiple salmon and steelhead hatcheries along the columbia and snake rivers which are the product of agreements to trade free-flowing rivers for hatchery fish. These hatcheries represent a failed promise, a promise made before we understood that hatcheries would fail to replace wild steelhead and salmon. Tca is working to reform the mitigation requirements authorized by multiple dams and hatchery-building boondoggles so that wild fish can rebuild the abundance and diversity in multiple watersheds.
$26,768 spent$53,784 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $428,179.
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 2020 to 2021, from $503k to $681k (+36%).
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.
86% of WILD SALMON RIVERS’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $109k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 WILD SALMON RIVERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
WILD SALMON RIVERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
46% 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 WILD SALMON RIVERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of WILD SALMON RIVERS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% 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
WILD SALMON RIVERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WILD SALMON RIVERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WILD SALMON RIVERS
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILD SALMON RIVERS: 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 WILD SALMON RIVERS?
- WILD SALMON RIVERS (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,545 to it, the largest being PAULUS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILD SALMON RIVERS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $395,545 in grants to WILD SALMON RIVERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILD SALMON RIVERS?
- PAULUS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILD SALMON RIVERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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