WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C30

Classification

2000

Street

1675 LARIMER ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• ACCOUNTABILITY: BUILDS CHAMPIONS FOR CONSERVATION BY BRINGING NEW VOICES TO THE CONSERVATION DEBATE, IDENTIFYING TIMELY ISSUES, AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT ACTIONS TAKEN BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS THAT IMPACT THE WESTERN UNITED STATES NATURAL RESOURCES.

  Expenses $12,985,502 · Grants $7,271,562

• SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES: FUNDS PROJECTS THAT COMPLEMENT THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION BUT FALL OUTSIDE TARGETED GEOGRAPHIES.

  Expenses $435,942 · Grants $310,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $14,580,557

  Expenses

  $14,382,287

  Contributions

  $14,438,841

  Grants paid

  $7,581,562

• 2023

  Revenue

  $14,955,171

  Expenses

  $13,894,191

  Contributions

  $14,789,000

  Grants paid

  $6,618,271

• 2022

  Revenue

  $12,702,937

  Expenses

  $12,592,869

  Contributions

  $12,642,000

  Grants paid

  $6,720,520

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,024,526

  Expenses

  $12,667,108

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,156,193

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,556,318

  Expenses

  $13,649,325

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,766,397

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,847,575

  Expenses

  $13,659,422

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,604,376

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,310,253

  Expenses

  $10,884,535

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,517,280

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,445,183

  Expenses

  $9,694,933

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,761,637

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,175,481

  Expenses

  $7,765,651

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,225,528

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,876,963

  Expenses

  $7,029,523

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,778,270

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period

1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021

Principal officer

Ethridge Darlene

Mailing address

1675 Lerimer St Ste 420Denver CO 80202

Website

Www.westerncarolinastateuniversityfoundation.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

• NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION

  $362,500

  2022 · CONSERVATION EDU.

• WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION

  $350,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION EDU.

• WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION

  $345,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION EDUCATI

• VET VOICE FOUNDATION

  $325,300

  2022 · CONSERVATION EDU.

• WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION

  $310,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION EDUCATI

• VET VOICE FOUNDATION

  $287,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION EDUCATI

• NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE

  $282,300

  2024 · CONSERVATION EDUCATI

• THE DENVER FOUNDATION

  $260,000

  2022 · DONOR ADVISED FUND

• ARIZONA WILDLIFE FEDERATION

  $229,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION EDUCATI

• INSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA

  $225,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION EDU.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $6,320,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $6,250,000

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $5,500,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $1,500,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC

  $1,500,000

  2024 · TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

• RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC

  $1,500,000

  2023 · RENEWABLE ENERGY SITTING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN THE WESTERN US

• UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION

  $1,090,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

• UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION

  $958,840

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

• UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION

  $947,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $750,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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