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Bobolink 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.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$87MAnimals$15MEducation$5.2MArts & Culture$3.7MPhilanthropy$2.4MSocial Science$2.0MInternational$360kCommunity Improvement$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+8 grants · $18M
$30,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$263M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Nature Conservancy$7,000,000
Rainforest Trust$7,000,000
Re Wild$2,250,000
New Venture Fund$685,736
Friends of the Forest Preserves$450,000
Friends of BirdLife International Inc$305,000
Oregon Desert Land Trust$280,000
One Hundred Miles$275,000
Osa Conservation$200,000
The Field Museum$200,000
Borderlands Restoration Network$150,000
American Bird Conservancy$150,000
The Orianne Society$135,000
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies$115,000
Openlands$75,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SDSN Association INC: $10k → 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

VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 25% of Bobolink 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.

Bobolink Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$78M · 61 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

61 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
51

Total granted

$78M
$8.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+61%

Still filing today

87%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    2× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +54% · 38% of their budget
  • REWILD
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +18%
  • R
    RARE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $6.1M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PAULSON INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M
  • NC
    Nature Conservancy of Canada
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • RW
    Re wild
    one grant, 2023 · $711k

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

04Your 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
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
2
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
3
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

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.

Environment
4
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
5
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

6
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
7
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
8
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
9
The Wildlife Society

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.

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
Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

12
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

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.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,483

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.

05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
62/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $27,179,765 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - GEORGIA — $11,100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - GEORGIACORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY — $3,700,000 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGYTHE PAULSON INSTITUTE — $2,000,000 · OtherNature Conservancy of Canada — $2,000,000 · OtherOPENLANDS — $1,910,000 · Other+49 more — $5,953,500 · Other+49 moreRARE — $6,125,000 · EnvironmentRAREWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $3,850,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCFRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES — $3,355,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRE…NEW VENTURE FUND — $2,350,232 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDOne Hundred Miles Inc — $1,405,000 · EnvironmentOne Hundred Miles IncST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $1,366,500 · EnvironmentCUENCA LOS OJOS — $1,350,000 · EnvironmentMANOMET INC — $1,075,000 · Environment+29 more — $5,310,500 · Environment+29 moreREWILD — $7,250,000 · AnimalsREWILDAmerican Bird Conservancy — $3,748,234 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Con…FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,962,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BIRDLI…INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $875,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY — $830,000 · AnimalsTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY — $670,000 · Animals+11 more — $1,279,000 · Animals+11 moreRAINFOREST TRUST — $10,000,000 · InternationalRAINFORES…+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalWellesley College — $5,000,000 · Education+2 more — $290,000 · EducationFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $2,907,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $135,000 · Arts & CulturePATHFINDERS INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Tryon Creek — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$53,843,265Environment$26,187,232Animals$17,614,234International$10,010,000Education$5,290,000Arts & Culture$3,042,500Recreation & Sports$140,000

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $27,179,765 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $10,000,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetREWILD — $7,250,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetRARE — $6,125,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetWellesley College — $5,000,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $3,850,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $3,748,234 over 8y, 10% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES — $3,355,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,962,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $2,907,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $2,350,232 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPENLANDS — $1,910,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc — $1,405,000 over 7y, 39% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $1,366,500 over 7y, 22% of budgetCUENCA LOS OJOS — $1,350,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetMANOMET INC — $1,075,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $875,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY — $830,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $735,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY — $670,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $565,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND — $550,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $350,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $315,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC — $310,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetDRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $300,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetOREGON DESERT LAND TRUST — $280,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTune In To Nature org — $250,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND PRESS — $185,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC — $155,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTs INC — $150,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK — $150,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCal-Wood Education Center — $140,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE INC — $135,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $130,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $120,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetPATHFINDERS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetA ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY — $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREY MATTERS PROJECT INC — $80,000 over 4y, 5.7% 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST
  • Who funds REWILD
  • Who funds RARE
  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND
  • Who funds OPENLANDS
  • Who funds One Hundred Miles Inc
  • Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds CUENCA LOS OJOS
  • Who funds MANOMET INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY
  • Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
  • Who funds THE ORIANNE SOCIETY
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Who funds GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ISLAND CONSERVATION
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC
  • Who funds DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds OREGON DESERT LAND TRUST
  • Who funds Tune In To Nature org

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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC33.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Nature Conservancy · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation · National Audubon Society Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Vanderpoel Conservation Foundation Xxxxx6009 · The Knobloch Family Foundation · Weeden 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 Bobolink 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 · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Wild Salmon Center49% of income from government
  • The Freshwater Trust17% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc12% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum11% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc4% of income from government
  • Birdscaribbean4% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bobolink Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bobolink 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 122 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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