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The Shared Earth Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$350k
Largest
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$8.9MAnimals$7.4MArts & Culture$2.2MEducation$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.0MInternational$722kScience & Tech$700kPhilanthropy$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

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
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$737k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

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.

area typical 10%EARTH SANGHA: $50k → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $10k → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $50k → 6%STREET SENSE MEDIA: $50k → 14%STREET SENSE MEDIA: $50k → 14%STREET SENSE: $25k → 14%STREET SENSE: $20k → 14%STREET SENSE: $20k → 14%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
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 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%.

The Shared Earth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 26% 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 78 repeat orgs$940k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
21

Total granted

$26M
$555k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+61%

Still filing today

78%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +43%
  • UA
    Upstream Alliance Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +660% · 44% of their budget
  • GC
    Game Changers Foundation Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +269% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OPS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CM
    CHESAPEAKE MEDIA SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $78k
  • NL
    NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ENVIRONMENTAL FUND
    one 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.

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
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
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Wild Earth Allies Inc

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.

Environment
4
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
5
Environment Now
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6
Reel Earth Films

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.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

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.

Environment
9
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
10
Wildlife Alliance Inc

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.…

Animals
11
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
12
The Wildlife Society

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
67/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $1,287,800 · OtherSMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY I…Individual grant recipient: $995,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Bhutan Foundation: $750,000 · OtherThe Bhutan FoundationWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $530,000 · OtherWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $508,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Abraham Foundation: $465,000 · OtherThe Abraham Foundation+39 more: $3,890,800 · Other+39 moreDefenders of Wildlife: $2,370,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeSnow Leopard Conservancy: $1,035,000 · AnimalsSnow Leopard ConservancyANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $565,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND …AKASHINGA INC: $385,000 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INCNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT: $342,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INC: $290,000 · AnimalsWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $270,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $230,000 · Animals+13 more: $1,044,500 · Animals+13 moreUpstream Alliance Inc: $1,315,000 · EnvironmentUpstream Alliance In…BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC: $782,500 · EnvironmentBAY JOURNAL MEDIA IN…CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $570,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVAN…ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $400,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGR…EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $365,000 · EnvironmentEASTERN SHORE LAND C…CLEAN WATER FUND: $330,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALL…ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION: $245,000 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG CORP: $200,000 · Environment+7 more: $370,000 · Environment+7 moreWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $725,025 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE M…CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE B…SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureSULTANA EDUC…Wild Earth Society Incorporated: $345,000 · Arts & CultureWild Earth S…SAVANNAH SCIENCE MUSEUM INC: $250,975 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH SCI…National Gallery of Art: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gal…ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE: $225,000 · Arts & CultureENTERTAINMEN…TRICYCLE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Arts & CultureRandom Good Foundation Inc: $110,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLEAP INC: $1,619,500 · EducationLEAP INCNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $850,000 · EducationNATIONAL GE…WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $274,000 · EducationWASHINGTON …+1 more: $65,000 · EducationGame Changers Foundation Inc: $1,187,000 · Food & NutritionENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $360,000 · InternationalELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL: $140,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $60,000 · International+1 more: $12,000 · International
Other$8,427,100Animals$6,531,500Environment$4,852,500Arts & Culture$3,076,000Education$2,808,500Food & Nutrition$1,187,000International$572,000

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 budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $2,370,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLEAP INC: $1,619,500 over 9y, 75% of budgetUpstream Alliance Inc: $1,315,000 over 9y, 44% of budgetGame Changers Foundation Inc: $1,187,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetSnow Leopard Conservancy: $1,035,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $850,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC: $782,500 over 9y, 18% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $750,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $725,025 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $570,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $565,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $530,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetThe Abraham Foundation: $465,000 over 6y, 66% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $400,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $400,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAKASHINGA INC: $385,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $365,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $360,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetWild Earth Society Incorporated: $345,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT: $342,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $330,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetWILDAID INC: $290,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $280,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC: $275,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $274,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $270,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: $261,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSAVANNAH SCIENCE MUSEUM INC: $250,975 over 8y, 23% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION: $245,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $238,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $230,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE: $225,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP: $200,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetLAST ANIMALS FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 3y, 78% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $190,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetORANG UTAN REPUBLIK FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC: $180,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetStreet Sense Inc: $165,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $154,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL: $140,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetOLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC: $125,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRICYCLE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEarth Sangha: $110,000 over 3y, 12% 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 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.

The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment IncMD21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 105 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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