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Galapagos Conservancy Inc

Our organization's mission is "conserving galpagos for nature and community," which we realize by saving imperiled species, restoring ecosystems, and building a more sustainable society in the galapagos archipelago.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$905kAnimals$104kEnvironment$81kInternational$13kHealth$11k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $25,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,615,003 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,589,503 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$15,000
PERMA LAB SPA$10,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO: $73k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $35k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $15k → 10%ANIMAL BALANCE: $8k → 10%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $31k → 13%DARWIN ANIMAL DOCTORS: $15k → 17%US DEPARTMENT OF STATE: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $15k → 9%TEACHERS TO TEACHERS INTERNATIONAL: $77k → 13%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $36k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%GALAPAGOS WHALE SHARK PROJECT: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $30k → 13%DARWIN ANIMAL DOCTORS: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 13%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $76k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%PERMA LAB SPA: $11k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%GALAPAGOS WHALE SHARK PROJECT: $7k → 14%TEACHERS2TEACHERS: $22k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $8k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
OR
CT
RI
CA
NC
DC
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $2.8M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$2.8M · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$669k · 10 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$669k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+30%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $156k · revenue +57%
  • MG
    MATHKIND GLOBAL
    2× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +63%
  • IC
    ISLAND CONSERVATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Idaho Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $73k · revenue +7%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
2
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
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
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
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
10
President and Fellows of Middlebury College

Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.

Education
11
The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yale University; the most unlike its peers is Galapagos Whale Shark Project. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Yale University: $174,364 · EducationYale UniversitySouthern Methodist University: $155,587 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityMATHKIND GLOBAL: $99,513 · EducationMATHKIND GLOBALUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $73,240 · EducationUniversity of Idaho Foundation IncWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $36,290 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,970 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $138,393 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONGalapagos Whale Shark Project: $57,000 · OtherGalapagos Whale Shark ProjectUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $44,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAANIMAL BALANCE: $27,500 · OtherANIMAL BALANCEUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $15,280 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · OtherUS DEPARTMENT OF STATE: $13,133 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY: $116,430 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVE…ISLAND CONSERVATION: $60,745 · EnvironmentECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · EnvironmentDarwin Animal Doctors Inc: $30,000 · Animals
Education$574,964Other$310,906Community Improvement$116,430Environment$80,745Animals$30,000

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 budgetYale University: $174,364 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $155,587 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $116,430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATHKIND GLOBAL: $99,513 over 2y, 25% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $73,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION: $60,745 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGalapagos Whale Shark Project: $57,000 over 3y, 76% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $36,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDarwin Animal Doctors Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetANIMAL BALANCE: $27,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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.

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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 Galapagos Conservancy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Galapagos Conservancy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of 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 · 0–40%
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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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