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Conservation X Labs Inc

To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.

$298k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Environment$1.3MScience & Tech$282kInternational$131kCommunity Improvement$60k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $46,018 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $298,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $252,097 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.

$46,018
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$46,018
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BIOVERSE LABS CORP: $9k → 10%LOBSTERLIFT LLC: $9k → 8%TANDEM REPEAT TECHNOLOGIES: $150k → 22%MANGO MATERIALS INC: $150k → 10%KOLOSSAL INC: $20k → 14%CONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND: $50k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $70k → 9%PURE EARTH: $48k → 17%CHEMFINITY TECHNOLOGIES INC: $42k → 20%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $46k → 28%UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME BANK OF AMERICA: $46k → 14%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $7k → 14%AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE: $280k → 13%CLEANGOLD: $27k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%SKY TRUTH: $119k → 9%NATURAL FIBER WELDING INC: $100k → 14%ENGINEERING FOR CHANGE LLC: $90k → 12%PICOYUNE LLC: $45k → 10%PURE EARTH: $3k → 17%UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME BANK OF AMERICA: $36k → 14%SKYTRUTH: $10k → 9%ENGINEERING FOR CHANGE LLC: $83k → 12%PICOYUNE LLC: $15k → 10%WEREWOOL FIBERS INC: $100k → 17%SKYTRUTH: $8k → 9%ENGINEERING FOR CHANGE LLC: $40k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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Grants abroad, by region — $190k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Peru$67k · 35% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: DEVELOP, TEST, AND SCALE TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONSERVATION IN THE AMAZON

Turkmenistan$54k · 29% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ADVANCE SOLUTIONS FOR THE CONSERVATION OF PERSIAN AND SNOW LEOPARDS

Kyrgyzstan$46k · 24% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ADVANCE SOLUTIONS FOR THE CONSERVATION OF PERSIAN AND SNOW LEOPARDS

United Kingdom$12k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PREVENT FURTHER MICROPLASTIC POLLUTION

Colombia$11k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: DEVELOP, TEST, AND SCALE TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONSERVATION IN THE AMAZON

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$543k · 5 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$543k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+49%

Still filing today

60%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • EF
    ENGINEERING FOR CHANGE LLC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $213k
  • S
    SKYTRUTH
    3× · 2020–2022 · $136k · revenue +291%
  • UN
    UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $82k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • AR
    AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · $280k
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +19%
  • MM
    MANGO MATERIALS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k

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.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
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World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
6
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

8
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Sustainable World Inc

See schedule o part i for description of the organizations mission.

Environment
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Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
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University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blacksmith Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA) — $280,000 · OtherAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA)ENGINEERING FOR CHANGE LLC — $213,283 · OtherENGINEERING FOR CHANGE LLCMANGO MATERIALS INC — $150,000 · OtherMANGO MATERIALS INCTANDEM REPEAT TECHNOLOGY INC — $150,000 · OtherTANDEM REPEAT TECHNOLOGY INCNATURAL FIBER WELDING INC — $100,000 · OtherNATURAL FIBER WELDING INCWEREWOOL FIBERS INC — $100,000 · OtherWEREWOOL FIBERS INCUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM — $70,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMPICOYUNE LLC — $60,000 · OtherCHEMFINITY TECHNOLOGIES INC — $41,789 · Other+4 more — $63,602 · OtherTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationTHE CORPORAT…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · EducationSKYTRUTH — $136,230 · EnvironmentSKYTRUTHCONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND — $49,930 · EnvironmentCONSERVATIO…UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $82,466 · InternationalBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC — $50,825 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $6,525 · InternationalWildlife Conservation Society — $46,018 · Animals
Other$1,228,674Education$207,000Environment$186,160International$139,816Animals$46,018

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKYTRUTH — $136,230 over 3y, 10% of budgetUNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $82,466 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC — $50,825 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND — $49,930 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $46,018 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $6,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SKYTRUTH
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds CONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 X Labs Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Conservation X Labs Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Conservation X Labs Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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