How much did WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of WILBURFORCE 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.

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

2020

canadian parksparks wildernessnature conservancywildlife conservationleadership awarddefenders wildlifeheadwaters

2021

wild sagelandjournalism naturalwest coastcoast environmentalcanadian parksparks wildernesswildlife conservation

2022

native americansjournalism naturalcanadian parksparks wildernesswildlife conservationleadership awardconservation canada

2023

communicationsconnectivityenvironmental transboundarydivideenvironmental protectingimplementationenvironmental conservation

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

03FY2024 · 215 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $54k
$10k–50k57 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k138 grants · $13M
$250k+6 grants · $2.1M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$153M

Total assets

Largest grants

TOGETHER RISING AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY$800,000
MAKEWAY FOUNDATION$264,000
YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE$250,000
GRAND CANYON TRUST$250,000
HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE$250,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$250,000
WILDLANDS NETWORK$240,000
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY$225,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA$210,000
COAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION$200,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY$200,000
SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE$200,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY$190,000
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY$190,000
ECOADAPT$180,000

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$78M · 161 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

161 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

161

Total granted

$78M

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+23%

Still filing today

68%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsArts & 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

NEW VENTURE FUND
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +85%
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS
4× · 2020–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +151%
SI
SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +19% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

TC
THE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE
one grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue -9%
UD
UTAH DINE BIKEYAH
one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -75%
WU
WILD UTAH PROJECT DBA SAGELAND COLLABORATIVE
one grant, 2021 · $120k

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.

Washington Wild

Protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals

Alaska Wildlife Conservation

Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.

Animals

CalWild

CalWild protects our state's drinking water and wild places by seeking new protections for streams and natural areas on public lands. Current campaigns include: the Sierra Forests, NW CA, the Desert, the San Gabriel Mts and the Central…

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Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture

Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregons wildlands wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Rewild

Re:wild protects and restores the wild to build a thriving earth where all life flourishes.

Animals

Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.

Youth Development

Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

To protect endangered species & preserve their natural habitats.

Animals

Cascades Carnivore Project

We are a conservation and scientific research nonprofit organization. Our mission is to study and restore carnivore populations at risk of extinction and the mountain ecosystems they call home through innovative science, strong…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildearth Guardians and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/154

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,411

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.

05the grantee network

150 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)

149/150

Grantees still filing

115/150

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$39,324,023Environment$26,300,255Animals$5,903,000Philanthropy$3,061,419Science & Tech$2,992,250Education$1,998,000Civil Rights$1,550,000

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.

PatagoniaorgCA94.1× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · The Wilderness Society · Western Conservation Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Kendeda Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · National Forest Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Tortuga Charitable Foundation · Water 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 WILBURFORCE 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

16get 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: SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY NORTH AMERICA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 811478046 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 SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY NORTH AMERICA, 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 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% 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 Wilburforce Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wilburforce 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.

WILBURFORCE 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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

150 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wilburforce Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WILBURFORCE 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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

150 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wilburforce Foundation?

More from the funding graph