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WESTERN LEADERS NETWORK

EIN 82-0625994 DURANGO, CO

Revenue 2025
$204,656
Expenses 2025
$292,512

Program services were 69.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C01
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 4433

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

Mission

We unite, support and cultivate local, tribal and state elected officials in the Interior West (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and in the Ohio River Valley (Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia) to protect land, air and water and build healthy, sustainable and resilient communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

We unite, support and cultivate local, tribal and state elected officials in the Interior West and in the Ohio River Valley to protect land, air and water and build healthy, sustainable and resilient communities.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $185,039

  • WLN's democracy program supports local, tribal, and state elected officials across the Interior West and Ohio River Valley in overseeing and strengthening free, fair, and safe democratic processes in their communities. The program provides officials with resources, peer engagement, and action opportunities related to election administration, civic participation, voting rights, and the defense of democratic norms and institutions. WLN works from the conviction that strong environmental protection depends on participatory democracy, and that local officials are uniquely positioned to defend both.In 2025, WLN organized officials in both networks to submit public comments to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission opposing a proposed rulemaking that would require documentary proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration form, a change that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. WLN also publicly condemned politically motivated attacks on elected officials in Pennsylvania and Minnesota, affirming that public servants deserve to serve their communities free from harassment, intimidation, and harm, and that civil discourse is foundational to democratic participation.WLN conducted targeted fundraising throughout 2025 to resource a dedicated democracy program coordinator position, successfully securing the funding needed for that role. The program coordinator will implement expanded democracy programming in 2026, including webinars, tools, and resources addressing topics such as closing the funding gap for local elections, coordination between local governments and state election agencies, and election interference at the federal level. This infrastructure investment positions WLN to significantly deepen its democracy work in both the Interior West and Appalachian networks in the coming year.WLN grew its overall network membership by nearly 10 percent in 2025, adding 85 new leaders and partners across all 11 states, and sent 12 or more newsletters and action alerts connecting officials with breaking news, engagement opportunities, and resources at the intersection of environmental protection and democracy.

    Expenses $19,106

As filed on the 2025 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Gwen Lachelt

    Past Exec. Dir.

    Total calculated
    $62,110
    From this org
    $59,301
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,809
    Hours/week
    35

  • Liane Jollon

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $56,982
    From this org
    $50,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,357
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elise Jones

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lauren Pagel

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Don Schreiber

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Victor Snover

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Juanita Vero

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amber Torres

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shelly Fyant

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $204,656
    Expenses
    $292,512
    Contributions
    $204,362
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $432,415
    Expenses
    $311,818
    Contributions
    $432,147
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $248,697
    Expenses
    $334,373
    Contributions
    $248,462
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $423,177
    Expenses
    $302,752
    Contributions
    $423,140
    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
    $265,003
    Expenses
    $246,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,191

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $237,375
    Expenses
    $230,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,140

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $171,834
    Expenses
    $204,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,194

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $168,290
    Expenses
    $132,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $96,844

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $172,605
    Expenses
    $111,465
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,140

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.