How much did CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Environment$34MInternational$20MAnimals$9.2MPhilanthropy$2.4MEducation$2.3MArts & Culture$454kHuman Services$154kScience & Tech$111kPublic Benefit$81kOther$11M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

mgmtspatial planningplanning protectedprotected responseresponse climatechange sparcturtles

2020

seascapeboisewaterimagesterncommunity-based ledcarpish

2021

coffee shadeshade treetree cataloguelaborrepositoryimagesintegrate

2022

marketsborderexpeditionsancommittee rlcrlc biodiversitycommittee kbac

2023

goldendangeredafricaactionmpamanagerslower mekong

2025

ppcstewardshipbiological varietykealakekuaeducationenvironmental changesalas gomez

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k21 grants · $631k
$50k–250k30 grants · $3.5M
$250k+15 grants · $28M

$91,336

Median grant

States reached

$704M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRIENDS OF THE MEXICAN FUND FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE INC$12,648,925
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE$7,362,721
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,566,581
ANTARTIC AND SOUTHERN OCEAN COALITION$1,186,753
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$812,217
RARE INC$607,328
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES$493,371
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$446,300
NORTHERN MARIANAS COLLEGE$425,000
RESOURCES LEGACY FUND$397,198
OCEANA INC$369,352
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)$360,000
FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY US INC$291,467
HATCH ACCELERATOR FUND MANAGEMENT LLC$285,174
POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY$257,926

02The need

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 (FY22–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 39% of CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL 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. Read by recipient address, 5% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 62% 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$60M · 66 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

66 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$60M

$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+48%

Still filing today

79%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
4× · 2021–2025 · $18M · revenue +91%
WC
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY
7× · 2018–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +24%
IC
ISLAND CONSERVATION
5× · 2018–2022 · $3.4M · revenue +165%

Funded once

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.4M · revenue +37%
NT
NIA TERO FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $415k · revenue +557%
IO
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE INC
one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -5%

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.

International Wildlife

The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…

Environment

Rainforest Action Network

Our mission is to preserve forests, protect the climate and uphold human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

Environment

Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

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.

Environment

Wild Earth Allies Inc

Wild Earth Allies protects vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. We believe investing in locally led conservation is key to turning the tide of biodiversity…

Environment

Marine Conservation Science Institute

Philanthropy

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The rainforest foundation us provides financial and technical support to indigenous communities and organizations to secure their rights to their traditional lands and protect their forests and livelihoods. we are tackling the world's most…

Environment

NatureServe

NatureServe is the global leader in data, science and technology to conserve biodiversity.

Environment

Environment Now

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Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places. Our field work focuses on rainforest restoration and conservation,…

Animals

Conservation International Foundation

Conservation international foundation (ci) works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. our work is guided by four key priorities for maximizing our impact and meeting the challenges of this decade.…

Environment

International Society for Environmental

Dissemination of scientific information through annual conferences, journals and the organization's website.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Wildlife Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yale University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%1/121

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,444

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.

06the grantee network

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

96/97

Grantees still filing

77/97

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$34,055,906International$19,505,742Other$11,466,490Animals$9,215,908Philanthropy$2,402,150Education$2,250,428Arts & Culture$453,710

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.

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.

Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCA21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Pew Charitable Trusts · World Resources Institute · National Geographic Society · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Mulago 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 organisation CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LIBERIA CONSERVATION FUND INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~46 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371862803 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LIBERIA CONSERVATION FUND INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 46 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Conservation International Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Conservation International Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Conservation International Foundation?

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CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Conservation International Foundation?

More from the funding graph