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The Ga Binney Conservation Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Ga Binney Conservation Foundation Trust

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.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
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 2023.

Environment$50kAnimals$37kHousing & Shelter$15kEducation$15kHealth$2k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$18,579
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE$25,000
ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$25,000
BONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE$25,000
CEDO INTERCULTURAL CENTER$25,000
AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS$22,790
Individual grant recipient$18,579
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST$10,000
MOUNTAIN AREA PRESERVATON FDN$10,000
NIVAS$10,000
NATIVE SEEDS-SEARCH$10,000
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE$10,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIVE SEEDS-SEARCH: $10k → 15%AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS: $23k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE WEST SHORE: $2k → 6%CETOS RESEARCH ORGANIZAATION: $19k → 10%MOUNTAIN AREA PRESERVATON FDN: $10k → 11%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%WILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $500 → 14%NIVAS: $10k → 12%NORTH TAHOE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $25k → 15%MAP - MOUNTAIN AREA PRESERVATION: $5k → 11%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%NIVAS: $10k → 12%INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%SAVE THE SENIC SANTA RITAS: $5k → 15%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%BONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%NIVAS: $5k → 12%INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%SAVE THE SENIC SANTA RITAS: $1k → 15%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST: $10k → 15%ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%BONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE: $1k → 14%CEDO: $5k → 15%CEDO - INTERCULTURAL CENTER: $1k → 15%ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST: $5k → 15%ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST: $5k → 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

WI
OR
NV
CT
CA
CO
AZ
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 48% of The Ga Binney Conservation Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ga Binney Conservation Foundation Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 8 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -48% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$176k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-48%

Still filing today

88%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’25
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalEducationHealthOther
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

  • OF
    ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +6%
  • JG
    JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +34%
  • NI
    NIVAS INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -48%
  • NT
    NORTH TAHOE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Rainforest Trust

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

International
2
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
3
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
4
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
5
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
International Wildlife Trust

Iwt is committed to combatting both the causes and effects of illegal wildlife trafficking by focusing on transnational organized crime groups who have escaped the consequences of their criminal activities to date.

Animals
8
San Bernardino Mountains Land Trust

The san bernardino mountains land trust is dedicated to the acquisition of forest open space and wildlife habitat on private lands within the boundaries of the san bernardino national forest to help ensure lasting public benefit to the…

Environment
9
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc

Connecting nature, people, and science for a more resilient world.

Environment
10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
12
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amboseli Trust for Elephants. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $41,000 · OtherORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONALCEDO INTERCULTURAL CENTER: $26,000 · OtherCEDO INTERCULTURAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $18,579 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYALE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY: $15,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARYMOUNTAIN AREA PRESERVATON FDN: $10,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN AREA PRESERVATON FDNNORTH TAHOE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · OtherMAP - MOUNTAIN AREA PRESERVATION: $5,000 · OtherCEDO: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $30,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR W…BONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE: $26,000 · AnimalsBONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATI…AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS: $22,790 · AnimalsAMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTSSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $25,000 · EnvironmentSKY ISLAND ALLIANCEARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentARIZONA LAND AND WATER…NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTE…Save the Scenic Santa Ritas: $6,000 · EnvironmentSave the Scenic Santa …+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentNIVAS INC: $25,000 · InternationalNIVAS INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health
Other$127,579Animals$78,790Environment$61,500International$25,000Education$15,000Health$2,000

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 budgetORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $41,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNIVAS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSave the Scenic Santa Ritas: $6,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $500 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 The Ga Binney Conservation Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ga Binney Conservation Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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 20 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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