How much does Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation give?

Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation reported 40 itemized grants totaling $22,231,817, out of $24,527,306 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 96 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.

What does Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Environment (81%), Animals (8%), Philanthropy (7%).

Who are Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Rewild ($14M), Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation ($5.0M), Sustainable Markets Foundation ($2.3M).

Does Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2019, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Environment Now, Resources Legacy Fund.

Where is Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation based?

Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation

The LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION is dedicated to the long-term health and wellbeing of all earth's inhabitants. Through collaborative partnerships, we support innovative projects that protect vulnerale wildlife from extinction, while restoring balance to threatened ecosystems and communities.

$25M
Granted FY2019: 40
Itemized grants FY2019: 37
Organizations funded FY2019: 59%
First-time grantees FY2019

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Itemized, FY2019: $22M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2019: $13,625,120
Organizations funded a year: 37 to 96; FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019: 10

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 59% of the organizations Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2019	37	$21M	59%
FY2018	96	$15M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Environment$31MAnimals$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.6MScience & Tech$648kPublic Safety & Disaster$539kCivil Rights$210kFood & Nutrition$130kHuman Services$110kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rewild	$13,625,120	1	62%
Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation	$5,040,406	2	26%
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$2,262,150	2	15%
Amazon Frontlines	$1,158,005	1	n/a
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc	$1,147,741	1	5%
Ten Strands	$1,080,350	1	47%
Rainforest Action Network	$865,190	1	11%
Tony Fitzjohng Adamson African Wildlife Aka Wildlife Now	$552,750	1	56%
Core Community Organized Relief Effort	$438,825	2	3%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation	$434,631	2	1%

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All grantees of Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rewild	$13,625,120	1	62%
Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation	$5,040,406	2	26%
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$2,262,150	2	15%
Amazon Frontlines	$1,158,005	1	n/a
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc	$1,147,741	1	5%
Ten Strands	$1,080,350	1	47%
Rainforest Action Network	$865,190	1	11%
Tony Fitzjohng Adamson African Wildlife Aka Wildlife Now	$552,750	1	56%
Core Community Organized Relief Effort	$438,825	2	3%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation	$434,631	2	1%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$395,500	2	1%
Resolve	$392,000	1	n/a
Museum Associates	$363,185	1	n/a
Collective Heritage Institute	$333,333	1	11%
Sequoia Forestkeeper	$332,500	1	n/a
Salal Foundation	$300,000	1	n/a
Earth Island Institute Inc	$295,000	2	1%
Arizona State University Alumni Association	$256,300	1	9%
Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation	$253,825	1	1%
The Ellen Fund	$250,000	1	3%
Solutions Project Inc	$250,000	1	8%
Regents of the University of California	$246,500	1	n/a
The Discovery Land Company Foundation	$200,000	1	1%
Grid Alternatives	$185,000	1	1%
Environment Now	$163,375	1	8%
Re-Volv	$160,000	1	34%
The Surfrider Foundation	$155,000	1	2%
Our Children's Trust	$150,000	1	4%
Virunga Fund Inc	$150,000	1	5%
Orangutan Outreach Inc Attn Richard Zimmerman	$136,728	2	18%
Liberty Hill	$130,000	1	n/a
Conservation Congress	$120,000	2	n/a
Center for Food Safety	$105,000	1	3%
Orange County Coastkeeper	$102,500	1	3%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	1%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc	$100,000	1	1%
DTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital	$100,000	1	42%
National Wildlife Federation	$100,000	1	0%
Treepeople Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society	$100,000	1	1%
Tompkins Conservation	$100,000	1	n/a
Ricky Martin Foundation Corp	$100,000	1	2%
California Native Plant Society	$97,904	2	3%
Baykeeper	$87,000	2	3%
Geos Institute	$85,000	2	9%
People's Action Institute	$85,000	1	1%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$80,000	1	0%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$80,000	2	0%
Chumash Museum and Cultural Education Foundation	$75,000	1	11%
Ndn Collective Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Center for International Environmental Law Inc	$75,000	2	2%
Polaris Institute USA	$75,000	1	5%
Carbon Cycle Institute	$75,000	1	n/a
Klamath Riverkeeper	$60,000	1	84%
Land is Life Inc	$60,000	1	5%
Clean Water Fund	$60,000	2	1%
Earth Law Center	$55,000	1	23%
Cook Inletkeeper	$50,000	1	5%
Edward Charles Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Akashinga Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Comite Civico del Valle Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Defenders of Wildlife	$50,000	1	0%
The Regeneration Project	$50,000	1	6%
Earthrights International Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Inquiring Systems Inc	$50,000	1	1%
La Compost	$50,000	1	18%
Los Angeles Waterkeeper	$50,000	2	2%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation	$50,000	1	3%
California Sportfishing Protection Allia	$50,000	1	7%
Dreamorg	$50,000	1	1%
Northwest Environmental Defense Center	$45,000	1	n/a
Ecological Rights Foundation	$44,500	1	13%
Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc	$41,700	1	2%
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance	$40,000	1	8%
Bayorg	$40,000	1	0%
The 5 Gyres Institute	$35,000	1	3%
Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology	$35,000	1	n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of Southeast Ventura County	$34,875	1	0%
Regents Univ of California	$31,511	1	n/a
San Diego Coastkeeper	$30,900	1	4%
California Public Interest Research Group Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Pine Ridge Girls School Inc	$30,000	1	8%
Friends of the River Foundation	$30,000	1	4%
Save the Worlds Rivers Fka Save the Colorado	$30,000	1	17%
Crag Law Center	$27,000	1	n/a
Water Foundation	$25,100	1	0%
Physicians for Social Responsibility	$25,000	1	n/a
The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment	$25,000	1	1%
Utah Dine Bikeyah	$25,000	1	3%
Together California Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
People Food and Land Foundation	$25,000	1	n/a
United Tribes of Bristol Bay	$25,000	1	n/a
Community Partners	$25,000	1	0%
Friends of the Eel River	$25,000	1	n/a
Energy Independence Now Coalition	$25,000	1	4%
From Lot to Spot	$25,000	1	n/a
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Southeast Alaska Indiginous Transboundary Commissi	$25,000	1	n/a
Western Watersheds Projects Inc	$23,900	1	3%
Turtle Conservancy	$23,733	1	1%
Brazil Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
National Parks Conservation Association	$20,000	1	0%
Fund for Wild Nature	$17,500	1	n/a
Grades of Green Inc	$16,716	1	2%
Cascadia Wildlands	$15,000	1	2%
Center for Sustainable Economy	$15,000	1	5%
Multiplier	$15,000	1	0%
The California Wildlife Center	$15,000	1	1%
Los Padres Forestwatch Inc	$11,500	1	2%
Mongabay Org Corp	$10,000	1	0%
Wild Nature Institute	$10,000	1	n/a
Institute for Fisheries Resources	$10,000	1	6%
Environmental Protection Information Center Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc	$8,500	1	9%
American Bird Conservancy	$7,500	1	0%
Partnership for Policy Integrity	$7,500	1	2%
Del Amo Action Committee	$6,500	1	5%

Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 94.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA61.8× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Environment Now · Resources Legacy Fund · California Community Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Rewild · The Marisla Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Marin Community 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.

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About Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation

How much does Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation give?: Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation reported 40 itemized grants totaling $22,231,817, out of $24,527,306 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 96 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Environment (81%), Animals (8%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Rewild ($14M), Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation ($5.0M), Sustainable Markets Foundation ($2.3M).
Does Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2019, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Environment Now, Resources Legacy Fund.
Where is Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation based?: Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation is based in CA.