Colorado · Public charity
National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance
The National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance supports stewardship organizations working within the National Wilderness Preservation System. We provide website resources, trainings, webinars, newsletters, produce the annual National Wilderness Workshop, and provide funding through challenge costs shares with the US Forest Service.
- $286k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $76k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $141k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $828k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $438k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $464k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $442k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $285k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation | $146,860 | 4 | 8% |
| New Mexico Wilderness Alliance | $137,122 | 4 | 2% |
| Wild Arizona | $131,160 | 6 | 4% |
| Sitka Conservation Society | $103,956 | 5 | 2% |
| Selway-Bitterroot Foundation Inc | $95,504 | 6 | 4% |
| Wild Alabama Inc | $92,074 | 3 | 13% |
| Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards | $90,272 | 3 | 5% |
| Washington Trails Association | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Continental Divide Trail Coalition | $80,740 | 5 | 2% |
| Wyoming Wilderness Association | $73,660 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 88 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: National Forest Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Wilderness Society · American Trails · Resources Legacy Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Maki Foundation · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Conservation Lands Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts
How this is measured
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About National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance
- How much does National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance give?
- National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance reported 7 itemized grants totaling $76,292, out of $286,294 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (80%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation ($147k), New Mexico Wilderness Alliance ($137k), Wild Arizona ($131k).
- Does National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Forest Foundation, Patagoniaorg, The Wilderness Society.
- Where is National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance based?
- National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance is based in CO.
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