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Center for Biological Diversity Inc

The CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC, works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$583kCivil Rights$220kReligion$212kRecreation & Sports$150kCommunity Improvement$100kAnimals$52kEducation$23kPhilanthropy$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY$2,460,000
CLEARWATER SANCTUARY$100,000
APACHE STRONGHOLD$70,000
OIL AND GAS ACTION NETWORK$20,000
FOOD & WATER WATCH$15,000
COMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER$15,000
PITTSBURGH UNITED$15,000
CLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%APACHE STRONGHOLD: $72k → 19%CLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT: $15k → 10%COMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER: $15k → 11%PITTSBURGH UNITED: $15k → 11%OIL AND GAS ACTION NETWORK: $20k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%PRESERVE OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES: $48k → 12%THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $2.5M → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $25k → 16%THE UNITED CONFEDERATION OF: $60k → 7%WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $10k → 9%HOWGOOD INC: $12k → 16%CENTER ACTION FUND: $200k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $23k → 14%BBCFHJ - BLACK BELT CITIZENS: $160k → 36%LOWER SAN PEDRO WATERSHED ALLIANCE: $30k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF ACTION FUND: $25k → 12%CLEARWATER SANCTUARY: $100k → 11%LOUISINA BUCKET BRIGADE: $5k → 23%APACHE STRONGHOLD: $70k → 19%HEYDAY BOOKS: $10k → 10%THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $130k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50k → 14%CENTER ACTION FUND: $75k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF ACTION FUND: $11k → 12%APACHE STRONGHOLD: $70k → 19%CENTER ACTION FUND: $60k → 14%APACHE STRONGHOLD: $70k → 19%GREENLATINOS: $10k → 14%GAAN BIKE GOZ'AA: $50k → 19%FOOD & WATER WATCH: $15k → 14%GAAN BIKE GOZ'AA: $50k → 19%GAAN BIKE GOZ'AA: $50k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
CA
CO
AZ
DC
LA
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 87% of Center for Biological Diversity Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 0%.

Center for Biological Diversity Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 6 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$3.5M
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-31%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitReligionCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TW
    The Wildlands Conservancy
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.6M · revenue -79%
  • CA
    CENTER ACTION FUND
    3× · 2018–2023 · $335k · revenue -67% · 100% of their budget
  • AS
    APACHE STRONGHOLD
    4× · 2022–2025 · $282k · revenue +31% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • BB
    BLACK BELT CITIZENS FIGHTING FOR HEALTH AND JUSTICE
    one grant, 2021 · $160k
  • UF
    UNITED FEDERATION OF TAINO PEOPLE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • PO
    PRESERVE OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $48k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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2
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
3
Environment Now
—
4
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
5
Southwest Environmental Center

To promote and protect Wildlife

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6
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture
7
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
8
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
9
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
10
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
11
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
12
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin

To protect and sustain the unique lands, waters, and biodiversity of west marin.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oil & Gas Action Network; the most unlike its peers is Heyday. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Wildlands Conservancy: $2,590,000 · EnvironmentThe Wildlands Conservancy+5 more: $80,200 · EnvironmentBLACK BELT CITIZENS FIGHTING FOR HEALTH AND JUSTICE: $160,000 · OtherBLACK BELT CITI…GAAN BIKE GOZAA: $150,000 · OtherGAAN BIKE GOZAAUNITED FEDERATION OF TAINO PEOPLE INC: $60,000 · OtherUNITED FEDERATI…PRESERVE OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES: $48,000 · OtherPRESERVE OUR RU…ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF ACTION FUND: $35,675 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $23,497 · Other+4 more: $51,900 · Other+4 moreCENTER ACTION FUND: $335,000 · Public BenefitCENTER AC…APACHE STRONGHOLD: $282,000 · ReligionClearwater Wildlife Sanctuary: $100,000 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $10,000 · AnimalsENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION: $6,750 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPittsburgh United: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTIDES FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Philanthropy
Environment$2,670,200Other$554,072Public Benefit$335,000Religion$282,000Animals$116,750Community Improvement$115,000Philanthropy$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy: $2,590,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCENTER ACTION FUND: $335,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetAPACHE STRONGHOLD: $282,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF ACTION FUND: $35,675 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLower San Pedro Watershed Alliance: $30,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPittsburgh United: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreenLatinos: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHeyday: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION: $6,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $5,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Sierra ClubPatagoniaorgFidelity Investments …
Sierra ClubCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sierra Club · Patagoniaorg · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Biological Diversity Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Biological Diversity Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Center for Biological Diversity Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Center for Biological Diversity Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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