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BAND 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k38 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+9 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC | $500,000 |
| AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC | $300,000 |
| THE WYLDLIFE FUND | $300,000 |
| VOX MEDIA LLC | $285,283 |
| XERCES SOCIETY INC | $250,000 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL INC | $250,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC | $250,000 |
| AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC | $202,013 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GGP | $200,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC | $166,240 |
| REWILD | $150,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of BAND Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MIMALIASILI INITIATIVES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +80%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +253%
- GFGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +248% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $256k · revenue +77%
- GDGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -59%
- OPOO PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +53%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oceans Forward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WYLDLIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OSA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds THE OZARK CHINQUAPIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds OO PROJECT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Geographic Society · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Tides Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization BAND Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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