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Flora of the World Foundation Inc at a glance

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Flora of the World Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0173% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$232kScience & Tech$81kHealth$55kArts & Culture$21kFood & Nutrition$16kCivil Rights$12kEducation$11kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$880k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$6,000
ST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION$6,000
IDAHO FOODBANK$3,000
PRIDE FOUNDATION$3,000
DR PECK LEGACY INC$2,700
MCPAWS REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER$1,700
REUSEUM EDUCATION$1,700
MCCALL ARTS AND HUMANITIES$1,700
BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER$1,700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $100k → 8%THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $5k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IDAHO: $10k → 7%MCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $7k → 11%AMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%PRIDE FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15k → 7%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IDAHO: $8k → 7%MCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $7k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IDAHO: $7k → 7%MCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $7k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IDAHO: $7k → 7%MCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $6k → 11%MCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $6k → 11%MCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%IDAHO NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $5k → 11%IDAHO NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $5k → 11%IDAHO NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $5k → 11%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $6k → 8%IDAHO SHAKESPEARE: $5k → 11%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $6k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 8%BOISE PHILHARMONIC: $5k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%IDAHO FOODBANK: $3k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $14k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $13k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $13k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $12k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $10k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $10k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $10k → 8%ST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%ST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%ST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 13 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$333k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

38%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IF
    IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +48%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +14%
  • MA
    MCCALL ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
  • AT
    Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEgraduated
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +37%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
2
The Amazon Biodiversity Center

To advance the preservation of the amazon rainforest and conservation research and to disseminate knowledge regarding the impact of human development and climate change on the diversity of the ecosystem, wildlife, and plant life of the…

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3
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Nrel Foundation

The NREL Foundation advances an affordable and secure energy future by catalyzing NREL's world-class energy research and innovation capabilities.

Environment
8
Washington Research Foundation
Health
9
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
10
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
11
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
12
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boise State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPT: $81,000 · OtherBOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - BIOLOGY DEPTIndividual grant recipient: $52,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $47,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $46,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherMCCALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherMCPAWS REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $11,200 · Other+2 more: $14,200 · OtherAMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · InternationalAMAZON CENTER FOR …Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentAshoka Trust for R…MCCALL ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $14,200 · Arts & CultureBASQUE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $9,700 · Arts & CultureIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $18,500 · Food & NutritionThe Pride Foundation: $14,500 · Civil RightsBoise State University Foundation Inc: $6,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationREUSEUM EDUCATIONAL INC: $7,200 · Science & Tech
Other$329,400International$100,000Environment$100,000Arts & Culture$23,900Food & Nutrition$18,500Civil Rights$14,500Education$11,000Science & Tech$7,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetAshoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $18,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Pride Foundation: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMCCALL ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $14,200 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetBASQUE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $9,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetREUSEUM EDUCATIONAL INC: $7,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 AMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MCCALL ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BASQUE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REUSEUM EDUCATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗

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.

Laura Moore Cunningha…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation IncID13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Flora of the World Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flora of the World Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home