Wyoming Outdoor Council
“Protect Wyoming’s environment and quality of life for future generations.”
The work
What they do
Wyoming’s oldest independent conservation organization. Advocacy on public lands, wildlife, water, and air quality. Works on oil and gas development, wilderness, and wildlife corridors.
Every year they sign one sentence and file it with the federal government: “THE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL'S MISSION IS TO PROTECT WYOMING'S ENVIRONMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE NOW AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS”
Where the money went, FY2024
The work, and what it cost
Keeping the wild alive
$1.1MTHE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL WORKS TO ENSURE THAT WYOMING IS A STATE WITH CLEAN AIR AND WATER, OPEN SPACE, THRIVING WILDLIFE, WILDLANDS, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, INFORMED CITIZENS, AND A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIF...
Read it as they filed it
THE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL WORKS TO ENSURE THAT WYOMING IS A STATE WITH CLEAN AIR AND WATER, OPEN SPACE, THRIVING WILDLIFE, WILDLANDS, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, INFORMED CITIZENS, AND A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIFE.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2024, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
56 cents of every dollar goes to the work
One year’s split is a snapshot, not a verdict. Splits swing hard with land deals, grants, and campaign timing. The trend line below says more than any single year.
Backed on the record by Pew Charitable Trusts, Resources Legacy Fund, Wilderness Society and 1 other, latest filing FY25.
$1,073,648 programs, $468,501 management, $386,684 fundraising. Form 990, FY2024.
The people
Who does the work
Succeeds Carol Bilbrough in the officer table.
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. This one caught a changing of the guard in the act: the FY2024 officer table lists Carol Bilbrough, the return itself is signed by Carl Fisher. Orgs that claim their page can update it same-day. Work at WOC? Claim this page.
The filings
14 years of filings
14 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year, as filed. Point at the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $699,752 |
| 2012 | $1,278,037 |
| 2013 | $1,036,860 |
| 2014 | $1,002,676 |
| 2015 | $666,393 |
| 2016 | $1,249,716 |
| 2017 | $1,634,748 |
| 2018 | $887,785 |
| 2019 | $2,312,471 |
| 2020 | $1,727,398 |
| 2021 | $2,049,852 |
| 2022 | $2,516,583 |
| 2023 | $2,369,043 |
| 2024 | $2,747,046 |
From $700K in 2011 to $2.7M in FY24, with no missed filing in 14 years.
Fights alongside Earthjustice (2 shared cases), Natural Resources Defense Council (2 shared cases), Sierra Club (2 shared cases), The Wilderness Society (2 shared cases) and Blue Ribbon Coalition (1 shared case) and 8 more. Same case, same side, on the federal docket.
Their ground
The places they defend
Leading opposition to BLM’s 2025 reopening of the just-finalized Rock Springs RMP, with program director Alec Underwood arguing the Golden Triangle and Big Sandy Foothills are too special to lease and develop.
Who’s defending it In the fightAdobe Town WSAIts Rock Springs RMP campaign lists Adobe Town among the landscapes whose management the contested plan will set for the next two decades.
Who’s defending itSee every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.
The Wyoming congressional delegation averages 3 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard
Ways in
How to help
56 cents of your dollar goes straight to the work above.
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59 years on the ground, 56 cents of every dollar on the line. That is who is holding it. There is room for one more.