· Private foundation
The Shared Earth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k20 grants · $524k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $610k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $350,000 |
| LEAP | $260,000 |
| BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| UPSTREAM ALLIANCE | $185,000 |
| GAME CHANGERS FOUNDATION | $162,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| BAY JOURNAL MEDIA | $125,000 |
| DC ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL | $125,000 |
| ABRAHAM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE LAST ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MIZMARYLAND INC (WE ARE ONE ALLIANCE) | $100,000 |
| SNOW LEOPARD CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $100,000 |
| WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of The Shared Earth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 9%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DODefenders of Wildlife9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +43%
- UAUpstream Alliance Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +660% · 44% of their budget
- GCGame Changers Foundation Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · 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
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.
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.
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.
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our planet for wildlife and people through local conservation action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us all.
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
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.
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…
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.…
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
How this is measured
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 105 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Abraham Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH SCIENCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE ↗
- Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
- Who funds LAST ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shared Earth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shared Earth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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