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Slade-Betts Foundation for Protection of Wildlife and the Environment at a glance

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Slade-Betts Foundation for Protection of Wildlife and the Environment

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$264kAnimals$16kRecreation & Sports$9kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$760k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POTOMAC RIVER KEEPER NETWORK$48,535
WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE CENTER$5,000
GOOSE CREEK FOUNDATION$3,000
VIRGINIA OUTDOORS ASSOCIATION$1,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$1,000
POTOMAC CONSERVANCY$1,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE CENTER: $5k → 14%ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS: $3k → 7%OCEAN CLEANUP NORTH PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%POTOMAC RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $50k → 14%CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 10%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $3k → 16%ROTARY CLUB OF TYSON'S CORNER (RCTC): $10k → 6%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $1k → 6%POTOMAC CONSERVANCY: $1k → 8%ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS: $2k → 7%POTOMAC RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $49k → 14%POTOMAC CONSERVANCY: $350 → 8%LONGHOUSE RESERVE: $1k → 7%POTOMAC RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $43k → 14%GROUP FOR THE EAST END: $10k → 7%POTOMAC RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $30k → 14%GROUP FOR THE EAST END: $5k → 7%POTOMAC RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $21k → 14%EVELYN ALEXANDER WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER: $2k → 7%POTOMAC RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $16k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 7 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$255k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+52%

Still filing today

71%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PR
    Potomac Riverkeeper Network
    6× · 2020–2025 · $208k · revenue +67%
  • GF
    GROUP FOR THE EAST END INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF TYSON'S CORNER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • DC
    DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +431%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
2
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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5
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
6
American River Conservancy

To conduct land conservation, stewardship and education in the upper american river and upper cosumnes river watersheds

Environment
7
Rivanna Conservation Alliance

Working with the community to conserve the rivanna river and its watershed through water quality monitoring, education, restoration, and stewardship.

Environment
8
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
9
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
10
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
11
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
12
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Potomac Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Potomac Riverkeeper Network: $208,408 · EnvironmentPotomac Riverkeeper NetworkGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentGROUP FOR THE EAST END INCGOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · Environment+4 more: $5,600 · EnvironmentROTARY CLUB OF TYSON'S CORNER (RCTC): $10,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF…VIRGINIA OUTDOORS ASSOCIATION: $8,500 · OtherVIRGINIA OUTDO…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIEN…WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE CENTER: $5,000 · OtherWESTSIDE GERMA…GOOSE CREEK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGOOSE CREEK FO…PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $2,500 · OtherPIEDMONT ENVIR…DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $4,000 · AnimalsEvelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc: $1,500 · AnimalsLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $1,000 · Education
Environment$241,508Other$36,000Animals$10,500Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $208,408 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEvelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Slade-Betts Foundation for Protection of Wildlife and the Environment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Slade-Betts Foundation for Protection of Wildlife and the Environment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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