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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465k 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
- RTRAINFOREST TRUST2× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +54% · 38% of their budget
REWILD3× · 2022–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +18%- RRARE6× · 2017–2022 · $6.1M · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TPTHE PAULSON INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $2.0M
- NCNature Conservancy of Canadaone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- RWRe wildone grant, 2023 · $711k
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.
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…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
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.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
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.
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.
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.…
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…
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.
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Birdscaribbean — 4% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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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