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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.

$598k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.5MCommunity Improvement$446kAnimals$290kScience & Tech$270kArts & Culture$171kEducation$89kPhilanthropy$55kHealth$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $548,710, the rows itemized in this filing. The $598,210 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $481k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$25,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$51,660
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$25,000
NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION$25,000
IGIUGIG VILLAGE$25,000
SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE$25,000
ALGONQUIN TO ADIRONDACKS COLLABORAT$25,000
ALLIANCE FOR THE MYSTIC RIVER WATER$25,000
ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION$25,000
KODIAK ARCHIPELAGO LEADERSHIP INST$25,000
LOWCOUNTRY NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE$25,000
SOVEREIGN ENERGY$25,000
SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES$25,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIA$25,000
NORTH COAST RESOURCE CONSERVATION$25,000
WABANAKI COMMISSION ON LAND AND STW$25,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $25k → 15%FORT APACHE HERITAGE FOUNDATI: $21k → 26%NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%SOLIDAGO CONSERVANCY: $25k → 13%GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $25k → 10%ZAMBIAN CARNIVORE PROGRAMME: $26k → 10%THE COMMON GROUND PROJECT: $22k → 10%FORT BELTKNAP INDIAN COMM: $163k → 17%MAIDU SUMMIT CONSORTIUM: $25k → 13%LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS: $20k → 14%TULARE BASIN WATERSHED PARTNE: $25k → 18%MECHOOPDA INDIAN TRIBE: $25k → 18%HULIAUAPAA: $25k → 15%HUDSON HIGHLANDS LAND TRUST: $25k → 6%ALGONQUIN TO ADIRONDACKS COLLABORAT: $25k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $148k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $37k → 10%SOVEREIGN ENERGY: $25k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $25k → 18%WILDLANDSCAPES INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 19%HURON PINES RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $25k → 11%MIDWEST WATERS INITIATIVE: $25k → 15%WISCONSIN WETLANDS ASSOCIATIO: $25k → 10%GREATER HELLS CANYON COUNCIL: $25k → 12%LONG TOM WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25k → 15%ALLIANCE FOR THE MYSTIC RIVER WATER: $25k → 9%GREEN UMBRELLA: $25k → 16%SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY: $20k → 11%KODIAK ARCHIPELAGO LEADERSHIP INST: $25k → 8%IGIUGIG VILLAGE: $25k → 20%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $25k → 6%THE CONSERVATION FUND: $20k → 7%MAKER SPACE 307: $25k → 17%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%WABANAKI COMMISSION ON LAND AND STW: $25k → 15%SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES: $25k → 8%WILD MONTANA: $20k → 9%FORT BELTKNAP INDIAN COMM: $65k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $52k → 8%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION A: $25k → 14%WILDLANDS NETWORK INC: $24k → 9%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20k → 6%FORT BELTKNAP INDIAN COMM: $30k → 17%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIA: $25k → 14%MICA GROUP INC: $25k → 19%NCEL: $24k → 14%OCEAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%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

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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 50 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
38

Total granted

$2.0M
$757k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+29%

Still filing today

76%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YT
    YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON
    2× · 2017–2018 · $76k · revenue +44%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +39%
  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • LT
    LONG TOM WATERSHED COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +155%
  • HH
    Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • MS
    MAIDU SUMMIT CONSORTIUMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +525%
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
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
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
3
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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4
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
5
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
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
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
9
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
10
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc

Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.

Environment
11
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
12
Sageland Collaborative

To provide science-based strategies for wildlife and land conservation.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natural Resources Foundation of; the most unlike its peers is The Bullitt 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

85 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. 85 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
51/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $76,024 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE TO YUKONNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Environment+47 more: $1,119,357 · Environment+47 moreFORT BELTKNAP INDIAN COMM: $258,339 · OtherFORT BELTKNAP INDIAN COMMUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $199,909 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASIndividual grant recipient: $138,893 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $52,713 · Other+32 more: $664,403 · Other+32 moreNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $55,000 · AnimalsENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION: $42,300 · AnimalsZAMBIA CARNIVORE PROGRAMME: $36,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy: $25,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $25,000 · AnimalsWILD LANDSCAPES INC: $25,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $18,000 · AnimalsIdaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation: $15,263 · AnimalsWild Earth Society Incorporated: $41,500 · Arts & CultureWabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCentral Colorado Conservacy: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMICA GROUP INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFort Apache Heritage Foundation Inc: $20,600 · Arts & CultureMAKER SPACE 307: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationWACCAMAW INDIAN PEOPLE: $25,000 · EducationBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $16,500 · EducationESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,395 · EducationTHE COMMON GROUND PROJECT: $40,250 · Public BenefitTHRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,250 · Public BenefitTHE BULLITT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $5,232 · Philanthropy
Environment$1,245,381Other$1,314,257Animals$241,563Arts & Culture$137,100Education$101,895Public Benefit$65,500Philanthropy$55,232

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION: $42,300 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWild Earth Society Incorporated: $41,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COMMON GROUND PROJECT: $40,250 over 2y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZAMBIA CARNIVORE PROGRAMME: $36,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetHURON PINES RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $35,395 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLYNN CANAL CONSERVATION INC: $25,700 over 2y, 13% of budgetOCONEE RIVER LAND TRUST: $25,600 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE: $25,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHAMA PEAK LAND ALLIANCE: $25,350 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLONG TOM WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25,270 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,250 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc: $25,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHill Country Alliance: $25,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFOREVER MARYLAND INC: $25,240 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC: $25,230 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAIDU SUMMIT CONSORTIUM: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRIVER NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAKER SPACE 307: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BULLITT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWinyah Rivers Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTulare Basin Watershed Partnership A California Nonprofit Public: $25,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKA IPU MAKANI CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHULIAUAPAA: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetWatershed Management Group Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCentral Colorado Conservacy: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTAKSHANUK WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMICA GROUP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SOLIDAGO CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

National Fish and Wil…PatagoniaorgThe Nature ConservancyNational Forest Found…Resources Legacy FundWilburforce FoundationFirst Nations Develop…Land Trust Alliance I…The Wilderness SocietyThe Sweetgrass Founda…Wildlife Conservation…The Kendeda Fund
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC48.8× affinity29 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 · National Forest Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Wilburforce Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Land Trust Alliance Inc · The Wilderness Society · The Sweetgrass Foundation Inc · Wildlife Conservation Society · The Kendeda 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 Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 56%
  • Wildlife Management Institute Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc: 100% of income from government
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • North Florida Land Trust Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Learning Center at the Euchee Butterfly Farm Inc: 56% of income from government
  • Cold Hollow to Canada Incorporated: 56% of income from government
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Long Tom Watershed Council: 39% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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.

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 108 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home