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National Park Foundation
As the official philanthropic partner of the national park service, the NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION generates private support and builds strategic partnerships to protect and enhance america's national parks for present and future generations.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k178 grants · $19M
- $250k+32 grants · $61M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $21,100,370 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATION EXPERIENCE | $7,106,692 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $6,924,749 |
| NATIONAL PARK FRIENDS ALLIANCE | $2,798,300 |
| NPS RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP & SCIENCE | $2,332,029 |
| ZION NATIONAL PARK FOREVER PROJECT | $1,975,138 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $1,761,069 |
| NPS-NATIONAL PARK SRVC | $1,489,800 |
| NPS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT | $1,355,000 |
| ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION | $1,354,000 |
| EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER | $1,166,000 |
| VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION | $1,065,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST | $1,033,275 |
| NPS INTERIOR REGIONS 6 7 & 8 | $1,007,180 |
| SITNASUAK NATIVE CORPORATION | $972,077 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
330 repeat relationships: 191 still active in FY2025, 139 since wound down; 29 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAmerican Conservation Experience6× · 2020–2025 · $12M · revenue +98%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +113% · 28% of their budget
CONSERVATION LEGACY9× · 2017–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +161%
Funded once
- CNChicago Neighborhood Initiatives Incone grant, 2019 · $514k
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +31%- PLPRIDE LIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +72%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
To protect, restore, and expand the National Conservation Lands through education,advocacy, and partnerships.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.
Ensuring the gorge remains a vibrant, living place wondrous, wild, and accessible for all is at the core of what we do. friends of the columbia gorge works to protect, preserve, and steward the columbia gorge for future generations.
Provide support and advocacy for the mission of the National Park Service. Educate the media and public about issues relevant to the management of the National Park Service and the national park system. Work with like-minded organizations…
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
The mission of the grand canyon trust is to safeguard the wonders of the grand canyon and the colorado plateau, while supporting the rights of its native peoples.
How this is measured
466 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. 466 of the 624 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 American Conservation Experience ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
- Who funds Santa Monica Mountains Fund ↗
- Who funds ZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMOR ↗
- Who funds EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds VOYAGEURS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds DENALI EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK USA INC ↗
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: National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc · The Outdoor Foundation · National Park Trust Inc · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · National Forest Foundation · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Community Initiatives · The Wilderness Society · The Corps Network · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Park Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Park Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northwest Youth Corps: 100% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc: 65% of income from government
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc: 54% of income from government
- National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
- Baltimore Heritage Area Association Inc: 42% of income from government
- New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium Inc: 35% of income from government
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
- Musconetcong Watershed Association: 14% of income from government
- Friends of the Oregon Caves and Chateau: 11% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation: 7% of income from government
- International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Maryland Economic Development Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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