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Viridi Futuro 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$379k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$5.0MEducation$506kPhilanthropy$373kHealth$75kPublic Benefit$48kInternational$48kAnimals$26kSocial Science$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $303k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $381k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$10,800
Median grant
8
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL$379,120
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$352,162
E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION$298,979
SAVING NATURE INC$151,627
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC$100,000
RACHEL'S NETWORK$69,851
NATURA INTERNATIONAL$60,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$45,000
UNC PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$30,000
DOGWOOD ALLIANCE$30,000
NC CONSERVATION NETWORK$30,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$30,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION-NC CHAPTER$26,000
NC WARN$20,000
PROSPEKT MIRA$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $379k → 11%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY - NICHOLAS INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SOLUTIONS: $34k → 11%DOGWOOD ALLIANCE: $30k → 12%UNC PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $352k → 8%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $371k → 11%DOGWOOD ALLIANCE: $30k → 12%UNC PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $220k → 8%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 11%DOGWOOD ALLIANCE: $30k → 12%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $299k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $175k → 8%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 11%DOGWOOD ALLIANCE: $30k → 12%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $299k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $51k → 8%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $99k → 11%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $51k → 8%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $82k → 11%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $100k → 17%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $82k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $51k → 8%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $76k → 11%SAVING NATURE INC: $152k → 11%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $49k → 8%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $74k → 11%NC CONSERVATION NETWORK: $30k → 8%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51k → 13%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $51k → 11%NC CONSERVATION NETWORK: $30k → 8%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51k → 13%NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $49k → 11%NC CONSERVATION NETWORK: $30k → 8%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $49k → 13%RACHEL'S NETWORK: $87k → 14%E O WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $38k → 13%RACHEL'S NETWORK: $85k → 14%RACHEL'S NETWORK: $74k → 14%RACHEL'S NETWORK: $70k → 14%RACHEL'S NETWORK: $33k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $45k → 8%NATURA INTERNATIONAL: $60k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $45k → 8%NATURA INTERNATIONAL: $45k → 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

NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
NC
DC
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.
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.
$5.8M · 34 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
3

Total granted

$5.8M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-14%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPublic BenefitCivil RightsInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
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

  • NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +147%
  • RN
    RACHEL'S NETWORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $373k · revenue +32%
  • SN
    SAVING NATURE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $192k · revenue +576%

Funded once

  • NW
    NC WASTE AWARENESS AND REDUCTION NETWORK (NCWARN)
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CA
    Conflict Awareness Project
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -56%
  • IPAS
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -14%
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
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
2
Environment Now
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3
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
4
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
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Environment
7
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
8
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
9
International Council On Environmental Economics and Development Union
Human Services
10
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Conservation Network; the most unlike its peers is Conflict Awareness Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 47 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $1,381,902 · EnvironmentNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONALEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,052,144 · EnvironmentEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSAVING NATURE INC: $191,627 · EnvironmentSAVING NATURE INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $170,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $130,000 · EnvironmentDogwood Alliance Inc: $125,000 · Environment+15 more: $449,500 · Environment+15 moreSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $973,578 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION - GILLINGS SCHOOL OF GLOBAL PUBLIC: $450,615 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDA…DUKE UNIVERSITY - NICHOLAS INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SOLUTIONS: $111,154 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY - NICHOLAS INSTITUT…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION-NC CHAPTER: $100,000 · Other+13 more: $251,300 · Other+13 moreRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $373,197 · Public Safety & DisasterNATURA INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 · Public BenefitAccountability Journalism Institute Inc: $8,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $2,500 · Public BenefitGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationLillian's List Foundation: $40,000 · Civil RightsConflict Awareness Project: $5,000 · Civil RightsUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalIPAS: $2,500 · International
Environment$3,500,173Other$1,886,647Public Safety & Disaster$373,197Public Benefit$160,500Education$55,000Civil Rights$45,000International$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $1,381,902 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,052,144 over 6y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $973,578 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $373,197 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetSAVING NATURE INC: $191,627 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURA INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $130,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDogwood Alliance Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNC WARN INC: $70,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetECOAMERICA: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLillian's List Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC DBA EARTHSHARE NC: $31,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCleanAIRE NC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPEKT MIRA: $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatureServe: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp: $10,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAccountability Journalism Institute Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConflict Awareness Project: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIPAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Advocates for Climate Health and Equity: $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMAZON AID FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVING NATURE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NATURA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Dogwood Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NC WARN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds ECOAMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Lillian's List Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC DBA EARTHSHARE NC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CleanAIRE NC ↗
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds PROSPEKT MIRA ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds NatureServe ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp ↗
  • Who funds Journalism Funding Partners ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC33× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Blumenthal Foundation for Charity Religion Education & Better Inter- · Tides Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Patagoniaorg · Park Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

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 Viridi Futuro Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Viridi Futuro Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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