· Public charity
Conservation Nation
To strengthen the conservation movement by funding and supporting conservationists from all communities, while educating and inspiring the next generation of wildlife champions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $558,874 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $633,008 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,134 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $453k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc | $150,000 |
| VIEW Veterinary Initiative for Endangered Wildlife | $105,500 |
| African People & Wildlife Fund | $97,500 |
| Inward Bound Mindfulness | $50,000 |
| Save the Rhino International Inc | $50,000 |
| Wildlife Direct Inc | $30,000 |
| Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation Inc | $30,000 |
| The Girls Foundation of Tanzania | $25,874 |
| Yellowstone Forever | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Conservation Nation’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.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- CKCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $320k · revenue 0%
- APAFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC3× · 2022–2025 · $227k · revenue -13%
- VIVETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $206k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- NPNez Perce Tribe Wildlife Divisionone grant, 2024 · $39k
- FIField Inclusive Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue ×12
- VSVERMILION SEA INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
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.
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…
To protect endangered species.
Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.
Advance wildlife management and conservation through applied research and education activities.
Reel Earth Films promotes wildlife conservation by creating films that nurture the human connection to nature, spread awareness about life-threatening challenges facing species worldwide, and advance environmental activism and research.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Rhino International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Field Inclusive Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFEDIRECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Girls Foundation of Tanzania ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Field Inclusive Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMILION SEA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA ↗
- Who funds NATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR ↗
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: Impactassetsinc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Nation 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.
- African People & Wildlife Fund Inc — 32% 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.