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WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

EIN 33-1107506 DENVER, CO

Revenue 2024
$14,580,557
Expenses 2024
$14,382,287

Program services were 93.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

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).

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.

  • BRENDON CECHOVIC

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $314,956
    From this org
    $191,129
    From related orgs
    $72,621
    Other
    $51,206
    Hours/week
    28 + 12 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $191,129 + $72,621 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $19,113 + $7,262 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,652 + $17,179 related
    Filer's total
    $217,894 + $97,062 related

  • SHARA KAPLIN

    CHIEF OF STA

    Total calculated
    $264,418
    From this org
    $163,537
    From related orgs
    $56,963
    Other
    $43,918
    Hours/week
    28 + 12 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,537 + $56,963 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $16,354 + $5,696 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,393 + $13,475 related
    Filer's total
    $188,284 + $76,134 related

  • LEAH WIENEKE

    CHIEF OPS OF

    Total calculated
    $248,619
    From this org
    $145,161
    From related orgs
    $52,561
    Other
    $50,897
    Hours/week
    29 + 11 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,161 + $52,561 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $14,516 + $5,256 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,691 + $12,434 related
    Filer's total
    $178,368 + $70,251 related

  • AARON BROWNING

    DIR FED PUBL

    Total calculated
    $243,880
    From this org
    $203,875
    From related orgs
    $6,125
    Other
    $33,880
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $203,875 + $6,125 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $20,388 + $612 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,430 + $1,450 related
    Filer's total
    $235,693 + $8,187 related

  • MONICA PIERGROSSI

    PROGRAM DIRE

    Total calculated
    $213,111
    From this org
    $60,550
    From related orgs
    $112,450
    Other
    $40,111
    Hours/week
    13 + 27 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $60,550 + $112,450 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,055 + $11,245 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $22,811 related
    Filer's total
    $66,605 + $146,506 related

  • BRENNAN BILBERRY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • LISA PAWLEK JAGUZNY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • CHRIS KILLINGSWORTH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MOLLY MCUSIC

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILL ROBERTS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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 — 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.

Grants made

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

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Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.