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· Public charity

Society for Conservation Biology

To advance the science and practice of conserving earth's biological diversity.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$5.2MEducation$2.3MScience & Tech$526kAnimals$201k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,060,753, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,202,192 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $141,439 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
$105,381
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$199,965
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS$114,502
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$110,633
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$105,562
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$105,381
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ$105,234
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$104,743
THE REGENTS OF THE UCLA$101,808
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$100,925
SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY NORTH AMERICA$12,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $105k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF POST-AWARD MANAGEMENT: $183k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY NU-RES FINANCE: $98k → 16%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF RESEARCH: $105k → 7%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $200k → 10%CONSERVATION SCIENCE PARTNERS: $97k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ: $105k → 13%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF RESEARCH: $105k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $101k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS GRADUATE STUDIES: $102k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES: $116k → 9%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK CONTRACTS AND GRANT: $105k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS: $103k → 16%CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $98k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $111k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $115k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $109k → 27%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO OFFICE OF CONTRACTS AND GRANTS: $114k → 12%TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND PROJECT ADMIN: $110k → 11%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $97k → 6%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $105k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FACILITIES: $110k → 15%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $102k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF POST-AWARD MANAGEMENT: $111k → 12%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF RESEARCH: $103k → 7%THE REGENTS OF THE UCLA: $102k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS GRADUATE STUDIES: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES: $112k → 9%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK CONTRACTS AND GRANT: $101k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS: $103k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $112k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $197k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $106k → 27%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO OFFICE OF CONTRACTS AND GRANTS: $111k → 12%TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND PROJECT ADMIN: $105k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $109k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY-NORTH AMERICA REGION: $104k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $99k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC DAVIS GRADUATE STUDIES: $99k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $103k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $106k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $98k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY-NORTH AMERICA REGION: $100k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UCLA: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $99k → 15%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

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WI
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NY
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OR
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CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
HI
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 27 repeat orgs$734k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
3

Total granted

$6.8M
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-17%

Still filing today

52%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $428k · revenue +40%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $393k · revenue +1%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    3× · 2017–2022 · $313k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • PS
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $113k
  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue -17%
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $97k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Society for Conservation Biology North America 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

21 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. 21 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $659,473 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $398,027 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $294,642 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $228,791 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $224,417 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $218,484 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $207,229 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $203,595 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $201,751 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $198,377 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $194,390 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $194,295 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $190,961 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $182,218 · Other+4 more: $426,394 · Other+4 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $392,618 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYThe Trustees of Princeton University: $312,925 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $291,117 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION I…FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $214,954 · EducationFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $214,873 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Research Foundatio…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $207,114 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STAN…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $206,302 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State Un…Cornell University: $205,637 · EducationCornell UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $199,983 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $194,907 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYPOMONA COLLEGE: $185,718 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEUniversity of Chicago: $105,562 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $104,743 · Education+1 more: $97,346 · EducationUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $428,316 · Science & TechUniversity o…SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY NORTH AMERICA INC: $211,536 · Science & TechSOCIETY FOR …Conservation Science Partners Inc: $194,460 · Science & TechConservation…CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $97,676 · Science & TechCARNEGIE INS…SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $201,471 · AnimalsCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $186,376 · Environment
Other$4,023,044Education$2,933,799Science & Tech$931,988Animals$201,471Environment$186,376

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 budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $428,316 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $392,618 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $312,925 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $291,117 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $214,954 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $214,873 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY NORTH AMERICA INC: $211,536 over 8y, 49% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $207,114 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $206,302 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $205,637 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $203,595 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $201,471 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $199,983 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $194,907 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Science Partners Inc: $194,460 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $186,376 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $185,718 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $105,562 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $104,743 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $97,676 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $97,346 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.

  • Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Conservation Science Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Society for Conservation Biology funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Society for Conservation Biology. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 38 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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