· Private foundation
The Shared Earth Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $629k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $275,000 |
| BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $220,000 |
| LEAP | $217,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| UPSTREAM ALLIANCE | $185,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| GAME CHANGERS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| SNOW LEOPARD CONSERVANCY | $125,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK | $125,000 |
| WILDLANDS NETWORK | $100,000 |
| ABRAHAM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BAY JOURNAL MEDIA | $85,000 |
| THE LAST ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of The Shared Earth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
67 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k 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
- DODefenders of Wildlife8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +43%
- UAUpstream Alliance Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +649% · 44% of their budget
- GCGame Changers Foundation Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +269% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- TOTHE OPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CMCHESAPEAKE MEDIA SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $78k
- NLNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
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…
Reel Earth Films promotes wildlife conservation by creating films that nurture the human connection to nature, spread awareness about life-threatening challenges facing species worldwide, and advance environmental activism and research.
Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.
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.…
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speak Out for Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 100 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 Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
- Who funds Upstream Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Game Changers Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Snow Leopard Conservancy ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Abraham Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH SCIENCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
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 Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Henry Sears Foundation Inc · Farvue Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Seadream Family Foundation Inc
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 Shared Earth 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pride of Baltimore Inc — 30% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Kent Cultural Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
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.