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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% 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 65% of Ncasi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 7%.
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 +16% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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 Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ncasi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ncasi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Conservation Biology Institute: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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