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A Blue Sky Foundation at a glance

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A Blue Sky Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$245k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$515kAnimals$115kScience & Tech$45kInternational$45kEducation$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REWILD$200,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$25,000
ONE SPARK FOUNDATION INC$10,000
THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONE SPARK FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - SAN DIEGO IMPERIAL: $5k → 11%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL - LOS ANGELES REG: $50k → 14%FARM SANCTUARY INC: $35k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50k → 17%PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE INC: $5k → 13%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $35k → 14%ONE SPARK FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL - LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%FARM SANCTUARY INC: $35k → 12%WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL - LOS ANGELES REG: $40k → 14%FARM SANCTUARY INC: $30k → 12%WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25k → 14%HEAL THE BAY: $10k → 14%MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25k → 17%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $5k → 14%THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $10k → 14%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25k → 14%COALITION FOR CLEAN AIR: $5k → 14%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $20k → 14%COALITION FOR CLEAN AIR: $5k → 14%COALITION FOR CLEAN AIR: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$410k · 8 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$410k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+34%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationHealthInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FS
    FARM SANCTUARY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • NG
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +197%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • NR
    NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL - LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HT
    HEAL THE BAY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
6
Environment Now
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7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
9
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
10
Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.

Animals
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc; the most unlike its peers is One Spark Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REWILD: $200,000 · AnimalsREWILDFARM SANCTUARY INC: $100,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $85,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE…Coalition for Clean Air: $15,000 · EnvironmentCoalition for Clean AirWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INCHEAL THE BAY: $10,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAYNATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL - LOS ANGELES REG: $90,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCE DEFEN…NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL - LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCE DEFEN…AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - SAN DIEGO IMPERIAL: $5,000 · OtherGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $45,000 · EducationNATIONAL …One Spark Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationOne Spark…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 · InternationalTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $10,000 · Health
Animals$305,000Environment$170,000Other$150,000Education$65,000International$45,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREWILD: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne Spark Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCoalition for Clean Air: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Blue Sky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Blue Sky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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