Oregon Wild
“To protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters.”
3 live lawsuits, 19 comments to the agencies, 86 cents of every dollar to the work.
The origin
How they started
Oregon Wild started in 1974 as the Oregon Wilderness Coalition, became the Oregon Natural Resources Council in 1982, and took its current name in 2006. It has helped win wilderness protection for roughly 1.7 million acres in Oregon and safeguards for the Bull Run watershed that supplies Portland’s drinking water. From offices in Portland, Eugene, and Bend, it works to protect old-growth forests, roadless areas, and wildlife like wolves.
Where the money went, FY2025
The work, and what it cost
Defending and Restoring Oregon’s Forests and Waters
$1.1M, 51% of spendingOregon Wild works to protect and restore public and private forests critical watersheds, rivers and wetlands across the state.
Including $54,892 granted onward, all of it to Oil & Gas Action Network.
Read it as they filed it
Defending and Restoring Oregons Forests and Waters Oregon Wild works to protect and restore public and private forests critical watersheds, rivers and wetlands across the state.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Protecting Special Places
$544K, 26% of spendingOregon Wild leads campaigns for the permanent protection of Wilderness areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Recreation Areas, and other protective designations to safeguard public forests and waters.
Read it as they filed it
Protecting Special Places Oregon Wild leads campaigns for the permanent protection of Wilderness areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Recreation Areas, and other protective designations to safeguard public forests and waters.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Helping Native Species Thrive
$191K, 9% of spendingOregon Wild works to protect and recover native species that are critical to functioning ecosystems and an important part of our natural heritage.
Read it as they filed it
Helping Native Species Thrive Oregon Wild works to protect and recover native species that are critical to functioning ecosystems and an important part of our natural heritage.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
86 cents of every dollar goes to the work
A good sign, not a scorecard: what matters is the extremes, and this is nowhere near one.
$1,826,350 programs, $235,485 management, $62,417 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The backers
Backed on the record by Wilburforce Foundation, latest filing FY24.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. The FY2025 filing lists two people as executive director, Quinn Read and Sean Stevens, usually a handover inside the year. If it’s out of date, tell us. Work at Oregon Wild? Claim this page.
Those 85 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If Oregon Wild is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Find your way inThe record
The court record
And 6 more in our case database: a selection we track, not their full docket.
Fights alongside Cascadia Wildlands (6 shared cases), Center for Biological Diversity (5 shared cases), Sierra Club (4 shared cases), Conservation Northwest (3 shared cases) and Crag Law Center (2 shared cases) and 8 more. Same case, same side, on the federal docket.
The filings
13 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year, as filed. Point at or tap the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $892,309 |
| 2012 | $658,156 |
| 2013 | $795,076 |
| 2014 | $1,086,933 |
| 2015 | $1,339,061 |
| 2016 | $1,033,186 |
| 2017 | $1,080,445 |
| 2019 | $1,391,438 |
| 2020 | $1,619,176 |
| 2021 | $1,902,955 |
| 2022 | $2,503,020 |
| 2023 | $2,040,288 |
| 2025 | $1,965,935 |
From $892K in 2011 to $2.0M in FY25, across 13 public filings (none on record for 2018 and 2024).
The record
On the record with the agencies
19 comments on federal decisions since 2023, each filed under the group’s own name on regulations.gov. The latest on decisions we track:
Year by year
The record, in order
- 1974Oregon Wild is formed.the return, formation year
- 20072007 to 2024: 8 cases filed, all since closed: Oregon Wild v. Constance Cummins; Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 6 more.the docket
The other 6
2020, Environmental Protection Information Center v. United States Fish And Wildlife Service, closed; 2010, Cascadia Wildlands v. United States Forest Service, closed; 2007, American Forest Resource Council v. Hall, closed; 2024, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center v. United States Bureau of Land Management, closed; 2022, Greater Hells Canyon Council v. Wilkes, closed; 2022, Cascadia Wildlands v. Adcock, closed.
- 2022First appears in Wilburforce Foundation’s grants.the funder’s return
- 20231 comment to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
- 2024Oregon Wild v. Warnack: plaintiff, still in court.the docket
- 2 comments, one to the Fish and Wildlife Service and one to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
- 2025Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center v. Burgum: plaintiff, still in court.the docket
- American Forest Resource Council v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service: intervenor, still in court.the docket
- 10 comments, most to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
- 20266 comments, most to the Bureau of Land Management, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
Rust, a case still in court. Green, a funder’s return. Hollow, a filing. Every row is a record we hold: 11 federal cases with the group on the docket, 19 comments filed under its own name, 1 funder whose returns name it. Nothing here is written from memory.
Their ground
The places they defend
Its attorneys, with Cascadia Wildlands and Crag Law Center, represent the groups challenging BLM’s Blue and Gold old-growth logging project in the Coast Range
Who’s defending it On the ground · Critical threat42 Divide Timber ProjectCo-plaintiff alleging the plan illegally logs older stands in reserves meant to protect spotted owl habitat
Who’s defending it On the ground · Critical threatLast Chance Timber SaleCo-plaintiff challenging the sale’s logging of late successional and riparian reserves
Who’s defending it On the ground · Threat developingBlue Mountains National ForestsRuns the Protect the Blue Mountains comment page for this plan revision
Who’s defending it In the fight · On watchWestern Oregon State ForestsOrganized thousands of supporters behind the Western Oregon State Forests Habitat Conservation Plan and publicly backed the Board of Forestry’s March 2024 vote to advance it.
Who’s defending itMost urgent first: open comment windows, then live federal cases, then the threat level. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.
Oregon Wild files one related organization on its return: Oregon Natural Resources Council Action Fund dba Oregon Conservation Leader (501c4). A related organization shares people or purpose; it does not share the books.
The Oregon congressional delegation averages 87 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard
Ways in
How to help
Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.
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