· Public charity
Conservation Lands Foundation
To protect, restore, and expand the National Conservation Lands through education,advocacy, and partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 53 grants below total $2,516,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,654,784 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $138,284 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $657k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mojave Desert Land Trust | $410,000 |
| Transition Habitat Conservancy | $225,000 |
| Friends of the Inyo | $155,000 |
| Friends of the Desert Mountains | $110,500 |
| New Mexico Wilderness Alliance | $108,500 |
| CactusToCloud Institute | $84,000 |
| Friends of the Owyhee | $83,500 |
| Archaeology Southwest | $80,000 |
| Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve | $71,500 |
| Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks | $70,000 |
| Bears Ears Partnership | $70,000 |
| Dolores River Boating Advocates | $70,000 |
| Conserve Southwest Utah | $60,000 |
| Get Outdoors Nevada | $55,000 |
| Native American Land Conservancy | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $773k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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.
83 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTHE CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCY9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +143%
- FOFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA9× · 2017–2025 · $740k · revenue +382%
- ASArchaeology Southwest9× · 2017–2025 · $732k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TRTOGETHER RISING AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +43%
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +54%- PCPenn Center Incone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -45%
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.
The mission of the grand canyon trust is to safeguard the wonders of the grand canyon and the colorado plateau, while supporting the rights of its native peoples.
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
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…
Working to restore the watersheds, wilderness, and wildlife in the high sierra nevada following the john muir trail (est. 1915) for all life in california.
The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.
Natural Resource Stewardship
Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…
The Volcan Mountain Foundation's mission is to preserve Volcan Mountain Range in its natural state for all generations.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Wild Arizonas mission is to protect, unite, and restore wild lands and waters across Arizona and beyond, for the enrichment and health of all generations, and to ensure Arizona's native plants and animals a lasting home in wild nature.
Promote wildlife habitat
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Conejos County Clean Water Inc. 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.
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 25 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.
92 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. 92 of the 106 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 CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA ↗
- Who funds Archaeology Southwest ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Inyo ↗
- Who funds Utah Dine Bikeyah ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS-DESERT PEAKS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OWYHEE ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dolores River Boating Advocates ↗
- Who funds CONSERVE SOUTHWEST UTAH ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Native American Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TULEYOME ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CANYONS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Amargosa Land Trust ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HABITAT CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Gold Butte ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG MORONGO CANYON PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds Amah Mutsun Land Trust ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds BLU Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONEJOS COUNTY CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MATTOLE RESTORATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS EN NORTE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Trinidad Coastal Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS VALLEY ECOSYSTEM COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI BREAKS MONUMENT ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CACTUSTOCLOUD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Amargosa Basin ↗
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: Resources Legacy Fund · Patagoniaorg · The Wilderness Society · Western Conservation Foundation · National Forest Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Wilburforce Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Wyss Foundation · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Maki Foundation · National Park 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 Conservation Lands 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.
- Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument — 13% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% 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.