· Private foundation
Patagoniaorg
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k401 grants · $6.1M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $5,174,555 |
| MAKEWAY FOUNDATION | $635,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $110,000 |
| WISTEQN'EEMIT | $100,000 |
| AMERICARES | $100,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $80,000 |
| RESOURCES LEGACY FUND | $75,000 |
| COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| DOGWOOD ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| UNITED TRIBES OF BRISTOL BAY | $50,000 |
| SPONSOR INC | $50,000 |
| HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $949k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 22% of Patagoniaorg’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
1052 repeat relationships: 345 still active in FY2025, 707 since wound down; 73 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLConservation Lands Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +31%
- RLRESOURCES LEGACY FUND8× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +63%
Earth Island Institute Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $798k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- MFMAKEWAY FOUNDATION FKA TIDES CANADA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k
- NVNEW VENTURE FUNDCOLLECTIVE ACTION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $165k
- NANATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $105k · revenue +86%
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
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…
BWP leads reliable and intentional conservation initiatives that promote and provide clean, ample water for people and habitats by working with key partners and our communities
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Water Climate Trust works to restore aquatic ecosystems with people who depend on them for food, jobs, health, recreation, and cultural survival. To this end, we advance water allocation policies that protect instream flows for ecosystem,…
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
How this is measured
1654 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. 1654 of the 1,994 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR WILD SALMON ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds 1 FOR THE PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds Outdoor Alliance ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD FISH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESOLVE INC ↗
- Who funds Meridian Institute ↗
- Who funds Environmental Health Coalition ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AGRARIAN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
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: Clif Family Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Maki Foundation · The Wilderness Society · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Wilburforce Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Western Conservation Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Sierra Club · Tortuga Charitable Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Patagoniaorg funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patagoniaorg. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
- Native Fish Society Inc: 27% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
- Rogue Climate: 7% of income from government
- American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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