· Public charity
Natural Resources Foundation Of
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
- $250k+1 grant · $307k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DNR - NATURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION | $306,711 |
| Individual grant recipient | $82,914 |
| Individual grant recipient | $62,900 |
| DNR - HAVENWOODS STATE FOREST | $46,000 |
| LANDMARK CONSERVANCY | $34,494 |
| SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE | $28,600 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY | $25,000 |
| SELVA | $22,500 |
| FRIENDS OF GOVERNOR DODGE STATE PARK | $22,380 |
| NEARBY NATURE MILWAUKEE | $11,900 |
| THE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTS | $11,704 |
| CEDAR GROVE ORNITHOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION | $11,368 |
| GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY | $10,228 |
| NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| TOMAHAWK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $9,509 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Natural Resources Foundation Of’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $605k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LMLAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY6× · 2018–2024 · $94k · revenue +139%
- XSXERCES SOCIETY INC2× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +93%
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $80k
- WGWISCONSIN GREEN SCHOOLS NETWORKone grant, 2019 · $65k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The natural resource development association supports policies that lead to proper, necessary, and conscientious resource development and conservation. by engaging community leaders, laborers, manufacturers, and job creators in the…
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
The mission of the wisconsin woodland owners association is to conserve and enhance the private woodlands of the state through the following actions: sustainably manage our woodlands with informed management plans that utilize best…
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
The mission of wild rivers conservancy of the st. croix & namekagon is to inspire stewardship to forever ensure the rare ecological integrity of the st. croix and namekagon riverway. the conservancy of the st. croix and namekagon works…
Dedicated to working with land owners to protect conservation-worthy land and natural resources of southern wisconsin.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of mississippi valley conservancy is to conserve native habitats and farmlands in the driftless area for the health and well-being of current and future generations.
The green lake conservancy permanently and proactively protects and preserves special places, primarily in the green lake watershed and county by oppering conservation expertise, strattegies, and legal tools for the benefits of humans,…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 56 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
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 WEST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN SOCIETY FOR ORNITHOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTs INC ↗
- Who funds DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education Inc ↗
- Who funds SELVA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GOVERNOR DODGE STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Nearby Nature Milwaukee ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD EDVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY CONSERVATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS OF SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Milwaukee Audubon Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · James E Dutton Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · John C Bock Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Madison Community Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Rusinow Family Charitable Foundation · Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Natural Resources Foundation Of funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Natural Resources Foundation Of. Bigger dots raise more.
- Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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