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Atira Conservation Inc

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.

$405k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$6.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Atira Conservation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$405k67%
FY202412$361k67%
FY202311$290k91%
FY20222$32kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$642kAnimals$41k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$90,00020%
Five Valleys Land Trust$85,00022%
New Mexico Land Conservancy$83,00015%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation$63,00020%
Wood River Land Trust Co$60,00021%
The Vital Ground Foundation Inc$55,05030%
Alachua Conservation Trust Inc$40,0001n/a
Cardinal Land Conservancy$40,00017%
Kentucky Natural Lands Trust Inc$30,00011%
Dog Island Conservation District$30,0001n/a
Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($299k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Atira Conservation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFive Valleys Land Trust: $85,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNew Mexico Land Conservancy: $83,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNortheast Wilderness Trust Corporation: $63,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWood River Land Trust Co: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Vital Ground Foundation Inc: $55,050 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCardinal Land Conservancy: $40,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetKentucky Natural Lands Trust Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSycamore Land Trust Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMississippi Land Trust: $24,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLandPaths: $23,358 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Montana Land Reliance: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Indiana Land Trust Incorporated: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTenngreen Land Conservancy: $8,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAfrican Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWoods and Waters Land Trust Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetMississippi Valley Conservancy Inc: $5,545 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 18.

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.

The Nature ConservancyVA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Nature Conservancy · Land Trust Alliance Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to Atira Conservation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Atira Conservation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Atira Conservation Inc

How much does Atira Conservation Inc give?
Atira Conservation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $405,488 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Atira Conservation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (94%), Animals (6%).
Who are Atira Conservation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Western Reserve Land Conservancy ($90k), Five Valleys Land Trust ($85k), New Mexico Land Conservancy ($83k).
Does Atira Conservation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Atira Conservation Inc 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 Atira Conservation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Nature Conservancy, Land Trust Alliance Inc, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Where is Atira Conservation Inc based?
Atira Conservation Inc is based in NC.

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 28 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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