How much did The Wildcat Foundation grant in FY2024?

The Wildcat Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $10,050,128 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is The Wildcat Foundation based?

The Wildcat Foundation is based in TX.

The Wildcat Foundation

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

The Wildcat Foundation

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$10M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.2M

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$45MInternational$30MArts & Culture$25MEnvironment$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.5MCivil Rights$882kPhilanthropy$485kEducation$239kOther$19M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

southwhistleblowerprotectionupgrade

2019

protection greatergreater gorongosagorongosa conservationconservation ecosystemdate protectiondate project'scomplex

2020

date project'sproject's surveillancedate frankfurt'sokapi wildlifewildlife reservereserve democraticfrankfurt's nsumbu

2021

date lomanilomani project'swildlife anti-poachinganti-poaching activitiesdate samplecollections analysesanalyses ivory

2022

key personnelkahuzi-biega parkadd keypersonnel staffstaff strengthendate niassanatural resource

2023

shares tpgtpg securitiesrooikat combatcombat wildlifepark zambiaprotectcrime namibia

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k3 grants · $87k
$50k–250k5 grants · $702k
$250k+14 grants · $9.3M

$456,215

Median grant

States reached

$6.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

PAMS FOUNDATION INC$1,175,075
PAMS FOUNDATION INC$1,161,972
EAGLE - US$1,000,000
EMPOWERS AFRICA$822,720
FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US$704,900
FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US$678,000
SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC$527,160
EMPOWERS AFRICA$520,000
CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIES$501,513
EMPOWERS AFRICA$485,838
EMPOWERS AFRICA$456,215
EMPOWERS AFRICA$448,921
EMPOWERS AFRICA$390,000
HOUSTON ZOO INC$388,627
EMPOWERS AFRICA$235,150

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 66% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 33% of The Wildcat 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.

The Wildcat Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 70% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$118M · 24 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$118M

$6.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+130%

Still filing today

71%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

WC
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY
6× · 2017–2022 · $16M · revenue +24%
PF
PAMS FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +46% · 70% of their budget
FZ
FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US
8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +106% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

BF
BORN FREE USA
one grant, 2017 · $1.6M
AP
AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +340%
FZ
FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
one grant, 2023 · $698k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

International Wildlife

The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…

Environment

Global Wildlife Trust Inc

Global wildlife trust is dedicated to broadening human understanding of the animal world through immersion in naturalistic recreations and educational programs using live animals both on site and in the community.

Animals

Wilderness Conservation Foundation

Environment

Women for Conservation

Protect endangered wildlife and their habitats

Environment

Bushlife Conservancy

Protecting Zimbabwe's wildlife for the sake of a healthier, more diverse planet. Bushlife Conservancy strives to protect endangered species within the Mana Pools and Zambezi Valley areas of Zimbabwe from human threat. Enforcement of…

Environment

Mpala Wildlife Foundation Inc

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Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's wildlife from habitat loss and human exploitation.

Animals

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

Commonwealth Zoological Corporation

To provide all administrative and other services and support required or contemplated by chapter 92b of the massachusetts general laws to the franklin park zoo and the walter d. stone memorial zoo, to any other agency or entity referenced…

Animals

International Primate Protection

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals

Animal Survival International Usa Inc

Animal Survival International (ASI) is a global charity that works to help wildlife whose survival is threatened by climate change, habitat destruction, the illegal wildlife trade, poor legislation and inadequate law enforcement. From…

Animals

Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wcg staff in partnership with the government of dr congo, work in a holistic manner to engage local communities in the protection of habitat and wildlife in the most biologically diverse forest in africa.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Wildlife Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/27

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,538

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.

06the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$45,450,357International$30,050,971Arts & Culture$24,612,777Other$20,051,522Environment$1,907,321Recreation & Sports$1,545,000Civil Rights$882,084

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.

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.

The Woodtiger FundPA18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Woodtiger Fund · Arcus Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation The Wildcat 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LUKURU WILDLIFE RESEARCH FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311598890 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LUKURU WILDLIFE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 86% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Wildcat Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wildcat Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Wildcat Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wildcat Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Wildcat Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wildcat Foundation?

More from the funding graph