How much did THE WILDWOOD FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of THE WILDWOOD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $32k
$10k–50k10 grants · $165k
$50k–250k3 grants · $335k
$250k+2 grants · $645k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Phaeton International Ltd.

Largest grants

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$395,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$250,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$220,000
CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY$65,000
BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE$50,000
DELAWARE WILD LANDS$25,000
THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE$20,000
SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$20,000
KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION$20,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$20,000
VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES$20,000
CITY TRACK$10,000
UNICEF USA$10,000
AMERICAN RIVERS$10,000
SPRING ISLAND TRUST FOUNDATION$10,000

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 87% 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 73% of THE WILDWOOD 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, 67% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE WILDWOOD FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.4M · 25 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.4M

$786k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+11%

Still filing today

48%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

CA
CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $585k · revenue +121%
KN
KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +52%
DW
DELAWARE WILD LANDS
8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +1%

Funded once

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -2%
WC
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL
one grant, 2022 · $250k
GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +11%

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

The Wetlands Institute

The mission of the wetlands institute is to promote appreciation, understanding and stewardship of wetland and coastal ecosystems through programs in research, conservation and education.

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American Conservation Association

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Georgetown Trust for Conservation

Contribute to the sustainability of the georgetown-silver plume historic landmark district and its environs through the preservation and interpretation of the district's cultural, artistic and natural assets.

Arts & Culture

Coastal Conservation Association

Protection of the marine, animal and plant life and resources of the coastal areas of the united states, both onshore and offshore, for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public. such objectives will be accomplished by: (a)…

Environment

Kennebunkport Conservation Trust

The Trust is dedicated to preserving land for use by current and future generations, and to managing properties in a way that reflects the natural and cultural heritage of Kennebunkport.

Environment

New York Water Environment

To serve the best interests of the public by promoting sustainable clean water quality management through science, education, and training.

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

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

Marine Conservation Science Institute

Philanthropy

Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education

Linden Trust for Conservation

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Central Kitchen Inc. 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

18 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)

17/18

Grantees still filing

13/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,188,500Environment$860,000Education$220,000Animals$215,000Arts & Culture$25,000International$5,000

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 WILDWOOD 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.

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3get no government money at all

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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: DELAWARE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 516020258 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 DELAWARE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
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 Wildwood Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wildwood 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 WILDWOOD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

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

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wildwood Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE WILDWOOD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

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

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wildwood Foundation?

More from the funding graph