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The Bailey Wildlife Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$419k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Animals$3.3MEnvironment$779kScience & Tech$258kYouth Development$82kHealth$78kEducation$60k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$72,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Redwood Parks Conservancy$134,900
The Memphis Zoo$80,428
Geoversity Foundation$72,000
BEACHWOOD CENTER FOR WELLBEING$71,843
USM Foundation Inc$60,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Marine Biological library: $80k → 8%Geoversity Foundation: $72k → 11%Redwood Parks Conservancy: $160k → 17%ZSL AMERICA INC: $200k → 17%ARCI - Carribean Raptor Study: $5k → 19%The Memphis Zoo: $100k → 17%BEACHWOOD CENTER FOR WELLBEING: $72k → 7%Shore Rivers - pollutants discharge: $58k → 10%USM Foundation Inc: $697k → 11%Biodiversity Reasearch Institute: $55k → 7%Forest Society of Maine: $125k → 15%Downeast Salmon Federation: $77k → 16%Marine Biological library: $80k → 8%Geoversity Foundation: $10k → 11%Redwood Parks Conservancy: $135k → 17%ZSL AMERICA INC: $100k → 17%The Memphis Zoo: $80k → 17%BEACHWOOD CENTER FOR WELLBEING: $7k → 7%USM Foundation Inc: $500k → 11%Biodiversity Reasearch Institute: $26k → 7%Forest Society of Maine: $500 → 15%Downeast Salmon Federation: $50k → 16%Marine Biological library: $78k → 8%ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%Redwood Parks Conservancy: $75k → 17%USM Foundation Inc: $468k → 11%BRI - Block Island Raptor tracking: $20k → 7%Forest Society of Maine: $250 → 15%Downeast Salmon-Smelt Brook Dam rem: $38k → 16%ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%Redwood Parks Conservancy: $20k → 17%USM Foundation Inc: $440k → 11%BRI - Caribbean Raptor Study: $15k → 7%Downeast Salmon- Fish Ladder: $25k → 16%Redwood Parks Conservancy: $10k → 17%USM Foundation Inc: $400k → 11%Biodiversity Reasearch Institute: $8k → 7%Downeast Salmon Federation: $10k → 16%USM Foundation Inc: $60k → 11%Biodiversity Reasearch Institute: $8k → 7%Univ of Maryland-Artificial oyster: $30k → 11%Univ of Maryland-Micro plastic poll: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MT
NY
MA
RI
CA
MD
TN
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 12 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$4.3M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
-20%

Still filing today

75%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • RP
    REDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +90%
  • MZ
    Memphis Zoological Society
    2× · 2022–2024 · $180k · revenue +24%
  • DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $137k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • MC
    Montana Council of Trout Unlimited
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • SR
    Shore Rivers - pollutants discharge
    one grant, 2018 · $58k
  • DS
    Downeast Salmon-Smelt Brook Dam rem
    one grant, 2018 · $38k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment
3
Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.

Animals
4
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
5
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
6
The Forest Park Conservancy

To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…

Environment
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
9
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
10
Waterbird Society

The waterbird society is composed of biologists, researchers, conservationists, students, and others interested in the behavior, ecology, and conservation of waterbirds. the organization is administered by officers and council members…

11
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
12
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Zoological Society and the most unlike its peers is Beachwood Center for Wellbeing. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USM Foundation Inc — $2,565,000 · OtherUSM Foundation IncMarine Biological library — $238,408 · OtherMarine Biological library+13 more — $403,850 · Other+13 moreZSL AMERICA INC — $300,000 · AnimalsZSL AMERICA INCMemphis Zoological Society — $180,428 · AnimalsMemphis Zoologic…DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $137,000 · AnimalsDOWNEAST SALMON …ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $50,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIE…REDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY — $399,900 · EnvironmentREDWOOD PARKS C…Forest Society of Maine — $125,750 · EnvironmentForest Society …BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $96,060 · EnvironmentBIODIVERSITY RE…+1 more — $250 · EnvironmentBEACHWOOD CENTER FOR WELLBEING — $78,477 · Health
Other$3,207,258Animals$667,428Environment$621,960Health$78,477

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY — $399,900 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetZSL AMERICA INC — $300,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetMemphis Zoological Society — $180,428 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $137,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetForest Society of Maine — $125,750 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $96,060 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGeoversity Foundation — $81,750 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetBEACHWOOD CENTER FOR WELLBEING — $78,477 over 2y, 13% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHED TRUST INC DBA PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 REDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds ZSL AMERICA INC
  • Who funds Memphis Zoological Society
  • Who funds DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION
  • Who funds Forest Society of Maine
  • Who funds BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Geoversity Foundation
  • Who funds BEACHWOOD CENTER FOR WELLBEING
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds MAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHED TRUST INC DBA PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST

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.

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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 The Bailey Wildlife Foundation 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Bailey Wildlife Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bailey Wildlife Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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