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Micronesia Conservation Trust

We make grants and strengthen organizational and leadership capacity to help Micronesian communities and decision-makers conserve the health of the oceans and islands that are our home.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$338k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$736kEducation$368kScience & Tech$35k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $724,171, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,026,724 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,302,553 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $321k
  • $250k+1 grant · $338k
$112,508
Median grant
3
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rutgers$337,770
University of Guam$141,693
Island Eco Service LLC$112,508
The Nature Conservancy$67,200
Coral Reef Research Foundation Inc$35,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
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.

US giving: 75% of grant dollars ($854k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($284k) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Coral Reef Research Foundation Inc: $35k → 11%Rutgers: $338k → 8%The Nature Conservancy: $67k → 7%The Nature Conservancy: $41k → 7%The Nature Conservancy: $28k → 7%The Nature Conservancy: $5k → 7%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.

Beyond the US: 25% of all-years giving ($284k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Guam$284k · 3 grants

Grants abroad, by region: $1.2M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $686k to organizations and $486k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$1.2M · 100% · 23 grants · 81 people

Stated purpose: Regranting · Assistance · Contract Payment

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain. 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
04Its field
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 8 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF GUAM: $416,961 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF GUAMRutgers: $337,770 · OtherRutgersTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $142,076 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIsland Eco Service LLC: $112,508 · OtherIsland Eco Service LLCPACIFIC COASTAL RESEARCH & PLANNING: $42,000 · Other+2 more: $51,994 · OtherCORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,103,309Community Improvement$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $142,076 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Micronesia Conservation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Micronesia Conservation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Micronesia Conservation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 8 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.

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