SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

S21Z

Classification

1000

Street

233 SW NAITO PKWY STE 200

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 · 2025

• FOREST - WE BELIEVE HEALTHY, RESILIENT FORESTS SUPPORT THRIVING COMMUNITIES. WE PARTNER WITH RURAL AND TRIBAL COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP LOCALLY-LED SOLUTIONS THAT REDUCE MEGAFIRE, PROTECT COMMUNITIES FROM MEGAFIRE, HELP COMMUNITIES RECOVER FROM MEGAFIRE, SUPPORT GOOD FIRE, IMPROVE PLANT AND ANIMAL DIVERSITY AND HABITAT, PRODUCE RESPONSIBLE WOOD PRODUCTS, AND RETURN FORESTS TOWARD HISTORIC CONDITIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, WE ARE HELPING COMMUNITIES IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON BECOME MORE RESILIENT TO THE MORE FREQUENT MEGAFIRES HAPPENING IN THEIR REGION, AND LEADING THE EFFORT TO HELP LOCAL COMMUNITIES MANAGE AND STEWARD LOCAL, FORESTED WATERSHEDS FOR DRINKING WATER.

  Expenses $3,884,978 · Grants $415,655 · Revenue $842,264

• WOOD MARKETS - WE BELIEVE WE CAN IMPROVE FOREST AND COMMUNITY HEALTH BY CONSTRUCTING NEW HOMES AND BUILDINGS WITH SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL MATERIALS. OUR WOOD MARKETS TEAM PARTNERS WITH RURAL, TRIBAL, AND URBAN COMMUNITIES TO SOURCE THE WOOD NEEDED FOR NEW HOMES AND BUILDINGS FROM FORESTRY PROJECTS THAT IMPROVE FOREST AND CLIMATE HEALTH WHILE SUPPORTING LOCAL ECONOMIES. OUR MOST RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENT IS SOURCING WOOD FOR A NEW TECH HUB IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON LARGELY FROM TRIBAL WOOD SOURCES, HELPING TRIBES ADVANCE ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY AND MAINTAIN FOREST HEALTH ON THEIR LANDS.

  Expenses $1,352,324 · Grants $365,217

• REGENERATIVE RANCHING - WE BELIEVE HEALTHY FOOD CAN AND SHOULD BE PRODUCED IN HARMONY WITH NATURE. OUR REGENERATIVE RANCHING PROGRAM PARTNERS WITH APPROXIMATELY 100 RANCHERS ON 6 MILLION ACRES ACROSS 11 WESTERN STATES. WE ALSO RECENTLY PILOTED THE LARGEST VIRTUAL FENCING PROGRAM IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, HELPING RANCHERS IN GILLIAM COUNTY, OREGON REBUILD AND RECOVER QUICKLY AND ECONOMICALLY FROM A WILDFIRE THAT DESTROYED MILES OF FENCELINE.

  Expenses $663,797 · Grants $317,644

• ENERGY, WATER - WE BELIEVE EVERYONE DESERVES AFFORDABLE, CLEAN ENERGY PRODUCED LOCALLY -- AND AFFORDABLE, CLEAN WATER. OUR CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM PARTNERS WITH RURAL AND TRIBAL COMMUNITIES TRANSITIONING TO CLEAN ENERGY AND ADVANCES SOLUTIONS THAT HELP COMMUNITIES BE MORE ENERGY INDEPENDENT AND RESILIENT TO DISASTERS . FOR EXAMPLE, WE PASSED THE NATION'S MOST AMBITIOUS COMMUNITY MICROGRID FRAMEWORK IN THE OREGON LEGISLATURE IN 2025. OUR WATER PROGRAM FOCUSES ON BALANCING WATER USE AMONG NATURE, PEOPLE, AND LOCAL ECONOMIES. OUR MOST RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENT IS WORKING WITH RANCHERS AND TRIBES IN THE UPPER KLAMATH BASIN TO RESTORE WETLANDS, FORESTS, AND MEADOWS TO IMPROVE WATER QUANTITY AND QUALITY IN THE AREA, WHICH IS ESPECIALLY MEANINGFUL IN LIGHT OF SALMON RETURNING TO THE UPPER BASIN AFTER THE REMOVAL OF FOUR OUTDATED HYDROPOWER DAMS ON THE KLAMATH RIVER IN 2023 AND 2024.

  Expenses $987,741 · Grants $237,183

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $10,789,117

  Expenses

  $8,324,952

  Contributions

  $9,848,790

  Grants paid

  $1,335,699

• 2024

  Revenue

  $9,464,220

  Expenses

  $10,124,088

  Contributions

  $8,553,488

  Grants paid

  $2,597,351

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,733,139

  Expenses

  $7,552,606

  Contributions

  $5,123,493

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,342,652

  Expenses

  $4,178,877

  Contributions

  $4,871,899

  Grants paid

  $0

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

  $2,924,728

  Expenses

  $2,629,722

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,425,924

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,889,455

  Expenses

  $2,196,313

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,963,618

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,744,857

  Expenses

  $2,308,683

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,367,303

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,160,418

  Expenses

  $1,929,943

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,961,447

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,494,732

  Expenses

  $1,715,550

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,587,709

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,796,569

  Expenses

  $1,672,970

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,682,211

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,248,733

  Expenses

  $1,615,723

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,560,824

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,542,667

  Expenses

  $1,743,074

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,908,440

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,651,441

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,159,931

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,036,028

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,278,466

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• ECOTRUST

  $791,726

  2024 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCES

  $591,034

  2024 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• VIBRANT PLANET PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION

  $359,162

  2024 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• VIBRANT PLANET PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION

  $313,805

  2025 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION

  $244,118

  2024 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• ECOTRUST

  $230,942

  2025 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• APPLEGATE PARTNERSHIP

  $230,389

  2025 · TO DOCUMENT THE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES TO PROMOTE AND CONSERVE FIRE ADAPTED NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS IN OREGON, DEVELOP APPLICABLE EDUCATION MATERIALS AND TOOL KITS TO BE AVAILABLE TO BOTH PARTIES AND ODF TO INCREASE SOICL LICENSE FOR PRESCRIBED FORE USE AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCRIBED BURN ASSOCIATIONS ACROSS OREGON, AND EDUCATE PRIVATE LANDOWNERS AND OTHER NON-FEDERAL ENTITIES ABOUT THE RESPONSIBLE AND CULTURAL USE OF PRESCRIBED FIRE THROUGH COORIDNTION OF THE OPFC

• VIBRANT PLANET DATA COMMONS

  $175,375

  2024 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• TROUT MOUNTAIN FORESTRY

  $134,359

  2024 · TO BUILD MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART COMMODITIES AND INVEST IN AMERICA'S CLIMATE-SMART PRODUCERS TO STRENGTHEN US RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES

• JACKSON SOIL AND WATER

  $131,848

  2025 · BUILDING NURSERY AND RECOVERY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLIMATE AND FIRE RESILIENT OREGON FORESTS

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $310,863

  2022 · REGENERATIVE RANCHING

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $210,000

  2022 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND/OR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $175,000

  2024 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE

• OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $163,500

  2023 · Environment

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $150,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $136,766

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $126,900

  2022 · Environment

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $120,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $104,055

  2024 · Environment

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $102,481

  2023 · WESTERN FOREST RESTORATION AND RANCHING INITIATIVE

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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