California · Private foundation
March Conservation Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2024
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $594,981
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 63
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $78M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations March Conservation Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 75 | $4.6M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $3.5M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $3.3M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $2.2M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $1.9M | 15% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2017 | 55 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Bird Conservancy | $3,395,100 | 7 | 3% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $1,802,700 | 6 | 1% |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory | $1,402,571 | 7 | 3% |
| Cornell University | $1,356,062 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Birdlife International Inc | $1,189,957 | 5 | 8% |
| Rainforest Trust | $883,384 | 7 | 1% |
| Global Conservation | $574,900 | 6 | 7% |
| Island Conservation | $535,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Planet Indonesia | $337,425 | 6 | 11% |
| Jocotoco Conservation Foundation | $321,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget March Conservation Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Nature Conservancy · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation
How this is measured
About March Conservation Fund
- How much does March Conservation Fund give?
- March Conservation Fund reported 79 grants totaling $4,830,754 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does March Conservation Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (45%), Environment (26%), Education (9%).
- Who are March Conservation Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Bird Conservancy ($3.4M), Wildlife Conservation Network Inc ($1.8M), Point Reyes Bird Observatory ($1.4M).
- Does March Conservation Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does March Conservation Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as March Conservation Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is March Conservation Fund based?
- March Conservation Fund is based in CA.
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