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National Wildlife Refuge Association

To conserve america's wildlife heritage for future generations through strategic programs that protect and enhance the national wildlife refuge system and the landscapes beyond its boundaries.

$8k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Environment$187kArts & Culture$33kEducation$25kAnimals$25kYouth Development$25k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$478k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDLANDS NETWORK$7,500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REFUGE FRIENDS INC: $25k → 11%SAN FRANCISCO BAY WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR: $25k → 27%FRIENDS OF THE ARTHUR R MARSHALL LOXAHATCHEE NWR: $25k → 11%INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCE: $25k → 21%NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $25k → 10%WILDLANDS NETWORK: $8k → 8%FRIENDS OF FRONT RANGE WILDLIFE REFUGES: $25k → 10%ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF ALASKA NWRS: $15k → 11%FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA WILDLIFE REFUGES INC: $17k → 11%NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $25k → 19%REFUGE FRIENDS INC: $13k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5k → 10%REFUGE FRIENDS INC: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Friends of Stone Lakes National Wildlife
Environment
4
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
5
Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

Friends of ottawa national wildlife refuge supports the conservation mission of ohio's only national wildlife refuge complex by acquiring land, engaging the community, and enhancing public access.

Animals
6
Warren Wildlife Gallery
Arts & Culture
7
Interlaken Wildlife Foundation
Animals
8
Friends of Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge

Promotes conservation, awareness of wildlife and its habitats

Animals
9
Friends of Willapa National Wildlife Refuge

Dedicated to provide support and assistance to refuge programs and to enhance awareness of and appreciation for the willapa national wildlife refuge

Animals
10
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
11
Friends of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

The mission of the Friends of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge shall be to educate the public regarding the flora, fauna, and natural environment of the Refuge, through functions and educational events, promote public support for…

Philanthropy
12
Friends of Deer Flat National Refuge Inc

To promote, protect, and provide resources for deer flat national wildlife refuge for the enjoyment of present and future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Valley Refuge Friends and the most unlike its peers is Wild Earth Society Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNESOTA VALLEY REFUGE FRIENDS — $50,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA VALLEY REFUGE FRIENDSNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc — $30,000 · EnvironmentNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation IncINTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCE — $25,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCEALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION — $24,907 · EnvironmentALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATIONFRIENDS OF ALASKA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES — $15,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ALASKA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGESNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $25,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INCSAN FRANCISCO BAY WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $25,000 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO BAY WILDLIF…FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA WILDLIFE REFUGES INC — $17,108 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA WILD…FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF T…Wild Earth Society Incorporated — $7,500 · Arts & CultureWild Earth S…FRIENDS OF THE FRONT RANGE WILDLIFE REFUGES — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS O…FRIENDS OF THE ARTHUR R MARSHALL LOXAHATCHEE NTL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS O…
Environment$144,907Animals$67,108Arts & Culture$32,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Other$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FRONT RANGE WILDLIFE REFUGES — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ARTHUR R MARSHALL LOXAHATCHEE NTL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR — $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA WILDLIFE REFUGES INC — $17,108 over 1y, 45% of budgetWild Earth Society Incorporated — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

National Fish and Wil…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Wildlife Refuge Association 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Friends of the Arthur R Marshall Loxahatchee Ntl Wildlife Refuge Inc — 10% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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