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WORLD SALMON COUNCIL

WORLD SALMON COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,575 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($44,950). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$203k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$198k
Net assets
$21k
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What World Salmon Council does

Mission

World Salmon Councils salmon watch program incorporates innovative learning activities designed to enhance the critical thinking problem solving and effective decision-making skills of students helps address the nature deficit that many of our youth experience and gives kids chance to make difference in their neighborhoods and local watersheds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, World Salmon Council served 3,276 participants through field trips, service-learning projects, classroom visits, online curriculum, training, and outreach events, all at no cost to students or educators. With 17 dedicated volunteers leading education stations 712 of these participants where students attended salmon watch field trips. World Salmon Council offers 50 salmon salmon watch experiences annually including 20 classroom visits, public outreach events, service-learning projects, and 30 in-stream field trips to 4th-12th graders.

    $157,822 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $157,822.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($123k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2018 Revenue 130 ($85k) Expenses 85 ($105k) Net assets 44 ($15k)2019 Revenue 106 ($69k) Expenses 59 ($73k) Net assets 33 ($12k)2020 Revenue 136 ($89k) Expenses 80 ($99k) Net assets 5 ($2k)2021 Revenue 158 ($104k) Expenses 80 ($99k) Net assets 1 ($455)2022 Revenue 202 ($132k) Expenses 102 ($126k) Net assets 19 ($7k)2023 Revenue 324 ($212k) Expenses 119 ($147k) Net assets 204 ($72k)2024 Revenue 254 ($166k) Expenses 181 ($223k) Net assets 42 ($15k)2025 Revenue 310 ($203k) Expenses 160 ($197k) Net assets 58 ($21k)
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Revenue (310)Expenses (160)Net assets (58)Peer revenue range

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 $9k to $79k (+808%).

$36k
$17k
$12k
$2k
$9k
$9k
$79k
$24k
$38k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WORLD SALMON COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$58k
’17
−$20k
’18
−$4k
’19
−$10k
’20
$5k
’21
$6k
’22
$65k
’23
−$57k
’24
$6k
’25
0.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Michael Knapp

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20232025
Listed712
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $70k.

2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 WORLD SALMON COUNCIL’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

WORLD SALMON COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

25% 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 WORLD SALMON COUNCIL.

23%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 75% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 50% · 2023 29% — 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

13% of WORLD SALMON COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

WORLD SALMON COUNCIL draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 5 states in all.

MN
WI
OR
PA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WORLD SALMON COUNCIL has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding WORLD SALMON COUNCIL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $324k on record — $213k federal, $111k state.

Federal$213k
grants $213kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$148k
  • Department of the Interior$65k
State$111k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$77k
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$34k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 18%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD SALMON COUNCIL: 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 WORLD SALMON COUNCIL?
WORLD SALMON COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,575 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($44,950). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORLD SALMON COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $197,575 in grants to WORLD SALMON COUNCIL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORLD SALMON COUNCIL?
HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $44,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORLD SALMON COUNCIL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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