· Private foundation
The Wildwood Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
- $250k+2 grants · $645k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $20,000 |
| SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $20,000 |
| VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES | $20,000 |
| SPRING ISLAND TRUST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $10,000 |
| CITY TRACK | $10,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The Wildwood Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KNKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +52%
- DWDELAWARE WILD LANDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +1%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- WMWeill Medical College of Cornell Universone grant, 2022 · $250k
GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +19%- TUTROUT UNLIMITED - CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
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 museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species on continental-scale ecology by providing support for infrastructure and consistent methodologies to support research and…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
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.…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 32 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 American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYTRACK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INATURALIST ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wildwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wildwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: 14% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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