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Ncasi Foundation
The NCASI FOUNDATION supports environmental science and data to promote the sustainable use of earth's resources, inform regulatory policy, educate, and execute the charitable activities of ncasi, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $779k
- $250k+1 grant · $866k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC | $865,862 |
| OFFICE OF RESEARCH AMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $203,638 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $87,729 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $85,083 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $79,197 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $76,970 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY | $72,326 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $65,418 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $54,608 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY | $53,689 |
| TANGLED BANK CONSERVATION | $49,500 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATION EXPERIENCE | $22,149 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $20,541 |
| SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS | $13,269 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,612 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 65% of Ncasi Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 7% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +12%
- LWLOUISIANA WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $108k · revenue +16%
Cornell University2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- UEUS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYone grant, 2021 · $75k
The President and Trustees of Colby Collegeone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -7%
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Mission statement: our mission is to provide the global community with the information needed to drive thoughtful, science-based conservation, to educate and train the next generation of conservation scientists, and to make lasting…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Aplu is a membership organization that fosters a community of university leaders collectively working to advance the mission of public research universities. the association's membership consists of more than 250 public research…
The ncasi foundation supports environmental science and data to promote the sustainable use of earth's resources, inform regulatory policy, educate, and execute the charitable activities of ncasi, inc.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of American Foresters and the most unlike its peers is National Council for Air and Stream Improvement Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 20 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS ↗
- Who funds American Conservation Experience ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · 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 Ncasi Foundation 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.
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