· Private foundation
Pine Tree Conservation Society
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIEN | $11,250 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $4,200 |
| VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| APPLACHIAN AUDUBON SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| NYC AUDUBON SOCIETY | $500 |
| MAINE AUDUBON SOCIETY | $500 |
| BEDFORD AUDOBON SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- NANATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY4× · 2018–2025 · $619k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2022–2025 · $194k
- EAENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $55k
- LCLANCASTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
- NYNEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +63%
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.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
The new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).
Buffalo audubon society leads and inspires western new yorkers to connect with and protect the natural world through bird-focused activities, advocacy and habitat restoration.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To foster and promote appreciation and understanding of the natural world by educational, scientific, investigative, literary, philanthropic and charitable pursuits. michigan audubon connects birds and people for the benefit of both…
To ensure the continued existence of pacific island birds that are under threat from introduced species and habitat loss.
Wildlife and natural ecosystems to safeguard biological diversity for current and future generations.
Bird Endowment's mission is to save the critically endangered Blue-throated Macaw from extinction in its native range in Bolivia. Habitat destruction has contributed to a steep decline in the wild population of Blue-throated Macaws. In…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bedford Audubon Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Island Press. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PRESS ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
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: The Dobson Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Pine Tree Conservation Society 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.
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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