Denver, CO

WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE

EIN 46-1346488

Environment & Animal Welfare Environmental Education & Advocacy Rural communities

Mission

A landowner-founded, landowner-led nonprofit that advances policies and practices to sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species across the American West.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE

Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) is a Denver-based, membership-driven 501(c)(3) organization that represents private landowners, ranch managers and land stewards across the Western United States. The organization is nonpartisan and focuses on practical stewardship, policy engagement, research, and peer-to-peer knowledge exchange to support economically viable working lands and resilient ecosystems.

WLA runs stewardship tours and events, publishes the magazine On Land and a series of stewardship films, and produces policy briefs and research for landowner audiences. In recent years it has published multi-state analyses of landowner conservation investment, engaged in federal and state policy discussions related to water and land stewardship, and convened landowner-focused retreats and technical exchanges to scale practical conservation solutions.

Notable achievements

2024 Landowner Investment Report

Published a multi-state report quantifying private landowner investments in conservation across the West, providing new, measurable evidence of landowner-funded stewardship and informing policy and funding conversations.

Policy research & advocacy

Produced timely policy briefs and formal comments (including farm‑bill and water policy analyses and state-level testimony) that elevated landowner perspectives in debates over watershed health, public access and federal funding for landscape-scale restoration.

Stewardship media and member engagement

Built a sustained outreach program—including the On Land magazine, an award‑recognized short‑film series, stewardship tours and member newsletters—that strengthened peer learning and expanded a landowner-led constituency for conservation.

At a glance

Total assets: $3.0M
Annual revenue: $3.5M
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 46-1346488
Location: Denver, CO
Website: westernlandowners.org
On Mahalo since: September 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Maintains a high transparency profile on nonprofit data platforms (Platinum-level transparency on Candid/GuideStar).

Listed and tracked on major nonprofit data services such as Charity Navigator and ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, and is a recognized partner to private foundations supporting western watershed and working-lands projects.

Featured in regionally focused conservation and agricultural funding initiatives and partnerships that support pilot projects and landowner-led forums on water and watershed health.

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