· Public charity
Conservation International Foundation
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $631k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+15 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $344k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $68M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $67M to organizations and $695k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION · GRANT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION · GRANT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION · GRANT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION · GRANT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION · GRANT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION · GRANT
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 46% of Conservation International Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 6% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 1%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
83 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWildlife Conservation Society9× · 2017–2025 · $8.9M · revenue +59%
- AAAntarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition5× · 2021–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +17% · 81% of their budget
- ICISLAND CONSERVATION5× · 2018–2022 · $3.4M · revenue +120%
Funded once
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.4M · revenue +94%- UDUS DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURYone grant, 2024 · $581k
- IOINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCEone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.
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.
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.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
OneReefs mission is to ensure healthy ocean ecosystems and thriving coastal communities across the Pacific.
How this is measured
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 136 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MEXICAN FUND FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds LIBERIA CONSERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds Save the Waves Coalition ↗
- Who funds NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds NIA TERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds International Rivers Network ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN FORESTS WORK INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURA BOLIVIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADAGASCAR FAUNA AND FLORA GROUP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Nature Conservancy · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Mulago Foundation · National Geographic Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Conservation International Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conservation International Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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