· Public charity
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement Inc
To provide technical information and scientific research to the forest products industry needed to achieve environmental goals and principles.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT 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 27 grants below total $1,966,822 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,398,264 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $431,442 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $472k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $977k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURESERVE | $500,000 |
| NCASI FOUNDATION | $235,000 |
| HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION | $194,888 |
| BILL - UGS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $155,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $119,231 |
| FORESTECH INTERNATIONAL LLC | $111,871 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY | $106,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $55,047 |
| THE ORIANNE SOCIETY | $46,000 |
| KENNEDYJENKS CONSULTANTS | $45,000 |
| ANDREW J KROLL (ROCINANTE CONSULTING LLC) | $39,800 |
| WEST FORK ENVIRONMENTAL | $38,454 |
| CREEKWALKER AQUATICS | $36,800 |
| US FOREST SERVICE | $35,509 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AWARD TITLE | $32,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of National Council for Air and Stream Improvement Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k 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
NatureServe5× · 2019–2025 · $998k · revenue +8%- UOUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $876k · revenue +80%
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $875k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FIFORESTECH INTERNATIONAL LLCone grant, 2022 · $112k
- ESENERCON SERVICES INCone grant, 2018 · $84k
- OSOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $81k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
See schedule othe american ornithological society (aos) is an international membership organization that connects ornithologists, science, and bird conservation by supporting science that advances the understanding and conservation of…
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Through large-scale restoration and rewilding, NATURAL STATE secures biodiversity, sequesters and stores carbon, and helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.NATURAL STATE is helping restore and rewild a minimum of 1,000,000 acres.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agricultural Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University Education Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 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. 16 of the 77 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.
- Who funds NatureServe ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds NCASI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Agricultural Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ORIANNE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FOREST PROTECTION ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · President and Fellows of Harvard College · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Council for Air and Stream Improvement 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.
- Conservation Biology Institute — 9% of income from government
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.