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Banovich Wildscapes Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$226k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Animals$392kCommunity Improvement$15kPhilanthropy$10kEnvironment$7kInternational$1kHuman Services$1k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $181k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$294k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$75,000
AFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION$56,000
Friends of Kenya Wildlife Trust$50,000
Chem Chem Live Wildlife$35,000
D3 Foundation$5,000
Project Survival Cat Haven$4,700
02The need
03

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.

Your US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($360k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($66k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Craighead Institute: $6k → 10%Erik's Ranch and Retreats: $1k → 10%Discovery Land Company Foundation: $5k → 14%Project Survival Cat Haven: $5k → 19%Empowers Africa: $1k → 17%THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $75k → 28%Legendary Adventures: $5k → 16%AFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION: $56k → 11%Ivan Carter WCA: $20k → 13%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%Rhino Ark Kenya: $2k → 10%WOODLAND PARK ZOO: $250 → 9%MOUNTAIN GORILLA VETERINARY PROJECT: $75k → 19%Western Sustainability Exchange: $1k → 10%Soysambu Conservancy Project: $3k → 19%Chem Chem Live Wildlife: $35k → 17%D3 Foundation: $5k → 16%Grumeti Fund: $10k → 11%Ivan Carter WCA: $1k → 13%Construction for Change: $15k → 9%Chem Chem Live Wildlife: $25k → 17%Chem Chem Live Wildlife: $8k → 17%AFRICAN PARKS: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
WI
NY
CA
MD
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($66k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Kenya$50k · 1 grant
OC$16k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your field

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.

1
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
5
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
6
The Serengeti Foundation
Environment
7
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc

The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…

8
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
9
Gorongosa Project Inc
Civil Rights
10
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

11
Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation
12
The Ark Conservancy
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodland Park Zoological Society and the most unlike its peers is D3 Foundation. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNTAIN GORILLA VETERINARY PROJECT — $75,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN GORILLA VETERINARY PROJECTChem Chem Live Wildlife — $68,075 · OtherChem Chem Live WildlifeAFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATION — $56,000 · OtherAFRICAN COMMUNITY AND CONSERVATIONFriends of Kenya Wildlife Trust — $50,000 · OtherFriends of Kenya Wildlife TrustIndividual grant recipient — $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFriedkin Conservation Fund — $15,571 · Other+8 more — $32,790 · Other+8 moreWildlife Conservation Society — $75,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation…INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE F…+1 more — $250 · AnimalsCONSTRUCTION FOR CHANGE — $15,000 · InternationalEMPOWERS AFRICA INC — $1,000 · InternationalD3 Foundation — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE — $1,000 · Environment
Other$318,436Animals$80,250International$16,000Philanthropy$10,000Environment$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTION FOR CHANGE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCRAIGHEAD INSTITUTE — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetD3 Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Who funds CONSTRUCTION FOR CHANGE
  • Who funds CRAIGHEAD INSTITUTE
  • Who funds D3 Foundation
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE
  • Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC
  • Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Banovich Wildscapes 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Banovich Wildscapes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Banovich Wildscapes Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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