· Public charity
International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc
We equip leaders, communities, and networks to act purposefully and impactfully for the benefit of wilderness and people to achieve a world abundant in wild nature and the the well-being of all life.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $1,085,599 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,144,992 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,059,393 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $166k
- $250k+2 grants · $809k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARTH VISION INSTITUTE | $549,178 |
| WILD PATH | $259,500 |
| INTERTRIBAL BUFFALO COUNCIL | $109,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $57,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $42,039 |
| BLACKFEET NATION FISH & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | $19,383 |
| EXPOSURE LABS | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,300 |
| SEALEGACY FOUNDATION | $10,449 |
| MALIASILI INITIATIVES | $8,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $2.0M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $2.0M to organizations and $48k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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
- EVEARTH VISION INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M
- ELEXPOSURE LABS6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M
- RLREEF LABS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.8M
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $107k
- RLRestoring Lifewaysone grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue -49%
- WEWEAVING EARTHone grant, 2017 · $68k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
6 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. 6 of the 28 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization International Wilderness Leadership Foundation 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.
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.
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