· Public charity
Bat Conservation International
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL's (bci) mission is to conserve the world's bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW LEAF CLIMATE PARTNERS LLC | $70,800 |
| ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $30,945 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $29,000 |
| GILA WATERSHET PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA | $22,225 |
| BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK INC | $17,017 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $14,914 |
| LA TIERRA DEL JAGUAR | $14,750 |
| KUDO | $14,658 |
| RIO BRAVO RESTORATION | $11,500 |
| FARMTEK | $11,441 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,982 |
| HIGH DESERT NATIVE PLANTS LLC | $9,063 |
| CORTADA FOUNDATION INC | $7,541 |
| NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BAT RESEARCH | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $603k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $526k to organizations and $77k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: BAT RESEARCH & CONSERVATION · RESEARCH GRANT - BATS
Stated purpose: BAT RESEARCH & CONSERVATION · RESEARCH GRANT - BATS
Stated purpose: BAT RESEARCH & CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: BAT RESEARCH & CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: BAT RESEARCH & CONSERVATION · RESEARCH GRANT - BATS
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RTRAINFOREST TRUST3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +54%
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM3× · 2017–2024 · $49k
- RBRIO BRAVO RESTORATION2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAone grant, 2017 · $44k
- ARAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICEone grant, 2017 · $29k
- RTRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
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.
The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The Natura Bolivia Foundation is dedicated to implementing, and evaluating the impact of conservation and development programs, with a focus on watershed conservation, protected areas, and incentive based conservation in Bolivia. We work…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Conservation of natural resources
The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.
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.
Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.
Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…
Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds RIO BRAVO RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds Gila Watershed Partnership of Arizona ↗
- Who funds BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds La Tierra del Jaguar ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BAT RESEARCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bat Conservation International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bat Conservation International. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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