How much does 444s Foundation give?

444s Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $2,510,625 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does 444s Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Civil Rights (6%), Animals (5%).

Who are 444s Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Wilderness Society ($1.2M), Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc ($891k), The Alaska Center Education Fund ($735k).

Does 444s Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does 444s Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as 444s Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Wilburforce Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund.

Where is 444s Foundation based?

444s Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

444s Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 31
Grants FY2024: 31
Organizations funded FY2023: 10%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $275,000
Organizations funded a year: 31 to 37; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 10
Total assets, FY2024: $46M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations 444s Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	31	$2.5M	16%
FY2023	31	$2.5M	10%
FY2022	35	$3.0M	11%
FY2021	37	$2.3M	14%
FY2020	33	$2.4M	9%
FY2019	32	$2.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$13MCivil Rights$876kAnimals$771kPublic Benefit$44kEducation$26k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Wilderness Society	$1,166,000	6	1%
Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc	$891,000	6	26%
The Alaska Center Education Fund	$735,000	6	6%
Earthjustice	$730,000	4	0%
The Partnership Project Inc	$592,000	5	1%
Alaska Wilderness League	$525,000	6	3%
Trustees for Alaska	$510,000	6	6%
Endangered Species Coalition	$456,000	6	11%
Native Movement	$434,000	6	2%
Resources Legacy Fund	$364,075	4	0%

Show all 35 grantees

All grantees of 444s Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Wilderness Society	$1,166,000	6	1%
Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc	$891,000	6	26%
The Alaska Center Education Fund	$735,000	6	6%
Earthjustice	$730,000	4	0%
The Partnership Project Inc	$592,000	5	1%
Alaska Wilderness League	$525,000	6	3%
Trustees for Alaska	$510,000	6	6%
Endangered Species Coalition	$456,000	6	11%
Native Movement	$434,000	6	2%
Resources Legacy Fund	$364,075	4	0%
Wildearth Guardians	$324,000	6	1%
Western Environmental Law Center	$322,000	4	3%
Northern Alaska Environmental Center	$316,000	6	11%
National Wildlife Federation	$315,000	2	0%
Advocates for the West Inc	$310,000	6	4%
Center for American Progress	$300,000	4	0%
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp	$275,000	1	7%
Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc	$190,000	6	2%
Round River Conservation Studies	$189,000	4	4%
Native American Rights Fund Inc	$142,000	6	0%
Boreal Songbird Initiative	$133,000	1	4%
Wilderness Workshop	$131,000	3	3%
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc	$110,000	2	1%
Sierra Club Foundation	$105,000	4	0%
Pacific Environment and Resources Center	$70,000	4	1%
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc	$60,000	2	0%
Alaska Marine Community Coalition	$55,000	3	4%
Friends of the Earth	$50,000	4	0%
Conservation Lands Foundation	$45,000	3	0%
The Pew Charitable Trusts	$43,750	2	0%
Silvix Resources	$30,000	2	5%
Alaska Community Action on Toxics	$30,000	1	1%
Oregon State University Foundation	$26,250	1	0%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation	$25,000	1	0%
NatureServe	$25,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.

444s Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

PatagoniaorgCA36.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Wilburforce Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Tortuga Charitable Foundation · The Wilderness Society · Marin Community Foundation · True North Foundation · Alaska Conservation Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About 444s Foundation

How much does 444s Foundation give?: 444s Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $2,510,625 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does 444s Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Civil Rights (6%), Animals (5%).
Who are 444s Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Wilderness Society ($1.2M), Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc ($891k), The Alaska Center Education Fund ($735k).
Does 444s Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 444s Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as 444s Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Wilburforce Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund.
Where is 444s Foundation based?: 444s Foundation is based in WA.