· Private foundation
The White Pine Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wilderness Society | $25,000 |
| Wilderness Society | $18,000 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $13,000 |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | $12,000 |
| Organic Consumers Association | $10,000 |
| Jane Goodall Institute | $10,000 |
| Gorilla Foundation | $10,000 |
| Seacology | $10,000 |
| International Wolf Center | $10,000 |
| International Crane Foundation | $10,000 |
| Ruffed Grouse Society | $8,000 |
| The Xerces Society | $7,000 |
| Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center | $7,000 |
| National Resources Defense Council | $7,000 |
| Cornell Lab of Ornithology | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ISINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST7× · 2017–2023 · $107k · revenue +17%
- TWTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · $102k · revenue +27%
- XSXERCES SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $62k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- IGInteragency Grizzly Bear Commone grant, 2022 · $10k
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +35%
- TBTHE BEACON INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -96%
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)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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.
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…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 49 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 INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds The Gorilla Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEACOLOGY ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RAPTOR REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CONSULTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OIKONOS - ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE ↗
- Who funds THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER ↗
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: Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Patagoniaorg · Aetna Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Burkholder Foundation · C F Holdship Charitable Trust · Eqt Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ibm International Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The White Pine Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The White Pine Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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