How much does Wilburforce Foundation give?

Wilburforce Foundation reported 225 grants totaling $19,341,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 135 and 145 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Wilburforce Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (75%), Philanthropy (8%), Animals (6%).

Who are Wilburforce Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Together Rising as an Environmental Community ($8.0M), The Wilderness Society ($3.3M), Yellowstone to Yukon ($1.7M).

Does Wilburforce Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wilburforce Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wilburforce Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Resources Legacy Fund, Western Conservation Foundation.

Where is Wilburforce Foundation based?

Wilburforce Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Wilburforce Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 225
Grants FY2024: 145
Organizations funded FY2023: 17%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $800,000
Organizations funded a year: 135 to 145; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 20
Total assets, FY2024: $153M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Wilburforce Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	141	$18M	7%
FY2023	145	$18M	17%
FY2022	139	$16M	17%
FY2021	136	$14M	21%
FY2020	135	$13M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$65MPhilanthropy$6.9MAnimals$4.9MEducation$4.6MScience & Tech$2.1MArts & Culture$995kCommunity Improvement$835kCivil Rights$790kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Together Rising as an Environmental Community	$7,963,338	5	97%
The Wilderness Society	$3,345,000	5	2%
Yellowstone to Yukon	$1,697,000	5	10%
University of Washington	$1,625,000	5	n/a
Sky Island Alliance	$1,447,500	5	30%
Compass Science Communication Inc	$1,392,250	5	34%
Wild Earth Society Incorporated	$1,380,500	5	10%
Conservation Science Partners Inc	$1,290,000	5	19%
The University of Montana Foundation	$1,237,000	5	1%
Heart of the Rockies Initiative	$1,230,000	5	31%

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All grantees of Wilburforce Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Together Rising as an Environmental Community	$7,963,338	5	97%
The Wilderness Society	$3,345,000	5	2%
Yellowstone to Yukon	$1,697,000	5	10%
University of Washington	$1,625,000	5	n/a
Sky Island Alliance	$1,447,500	5	30%
Compass Science Communication Inc	$1,392,250	5	34%
Wild Earth Society Incorporated	$1,380,500	5	10%
Conservation Science Partners Inc	$1,290,000	5	19%
The University of Montana Foundation	$1,237,000	5	1%
Heart of the Rockies Initiative	$1,230,000	5	31%
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc	$1,075,000	5	3%
Defenders of Wildlife	$1,075,000	5	1%
National Parks Conservation Association	$955,000	5	1%
Trout Unlimited Inc	$935,000	5	0%
University of Utah	$920,000	5	n/a
Headwaters Economics Inc	$870,000	5	7%
Conservation Lands Foundation	$840,000	5	5%
Sierra Club Foundation	$786,000	5	0%
Western Environmental Law Center	$751,000	5	5%
American Rivers Inc	$750,000	5	1%
Greater Yellowstone Coalition	$734,500	5	3%
Resource Media	$718,000	5	4%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$700,000	5	0%
Outdoor Alliance	$697,500	5	19%
EcoAdapt	$692,500	5	14%
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc	$657,000	5	2%
Wild Salmon Center	$655,000	5	2%
Sitka Conservation Society	$636,000	5	12%
Friends of Nevada Wilderness	$625,000	5	11%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$610,000	5	0%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center	$600,000	5	14%
Friends of Cedar Mesa	$552,000	5	11%
Endangered Species Coalition	$530,000	5	15%
Wildearth Guardians	$510,000	5	3%
Idaho Conservation League Inc	$509,650	5	4%
Utah Dine Bikeyah	$505,000	4	20%
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance	$505,000	5	5%
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources	$495,000	4	20%
Oregon Natural Desert Association	$490,000	5	6%
Spruce Root Inc	$481,000	3	1%
Alaska Wilderness League	$480,000	5	3%
Conservation Nw	$475,000	5	4%
Center for American Progress	$475,000	4	0%
Montana Wildlife Federation	$445,000	5	13%
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers	$430,000	5	2%
Sageland Collaborative	$426,845	4	23%
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project	$420,000	5	16%
Colorado Plateau Foundation	$410,000	5	7%
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild	$400,000	5	5%
Resources Legacy Fund	$390,000	4	0%
Idaho Wildlife Federation	$374,000	5	23%
Cascadia Wildlands	$368,000	5	9%
Native Americans in Philanthropy	$365,000	3	1%
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund	$345,000	5	19%
People and Carnivores Inc	$327,000	5	16%
Cascade Forest Conservancy	$321,000	5	12%
Earthjustice	$315,000	5	0%
Society for Conservation Biology North America Inc	$310,000	5	80%
National Wildlife Federation	$310,000	4	0%
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Inc	$282,500	5	24%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$275,000	5	0%
American Forests	$275,000	3	0%
Trustees for Alaska	$270,000	5	4%
Western Resource Advocates	$255,000	5	1%
Alliance for Justice	$250,000	5	1%
Montana Free Press	$250,000	5	5%
Greater Hells Canyon Council	$238,000	5	16%
Yaak Valley Forest Council	$237,750	5	15%
Salmon Valley Stewardship Inc	$235,000	5	17%
Forward Mt Foundation	$231,400	5	7%
Malpai Borderlands Group Inc	$230,000	5	18%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation	$225,000	5	2%
Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Proj Inc	$207,000	5	65%
Western Mining Action Project Inc	$205,000	5	16%
Bark	$205,000	5	11%
Boreal Songbird Initiative	$200,000	2	2%
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection	$197,380	5	13%
High Desert Partnership	$175,000	5	3%
The Conservation Alliance	$175,000	1	5%
Michigan State University	$163,000	4	n/a
Lemhi Regional Land Trust	$161,980	5	15%
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council	$158,500	5	14%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$151,310	5	0%
The Wyldlife Fund	$150,000	3	3%
Western Native Voice Education Project	$150,000	3	3%
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators	$150,000	3	2%
The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc	$150,000	5	0%
Future West Inc	$150,000	4	14%
National Association of Tribal Historic Officers Inc	$145,000	4	10%
Wilderness Workshop	$130,500	3	3%
Utah Outdoor Partners	$125,000	4	44%
Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund	$120,000	4	10%
Kawerak Inc	$120,000	3	0%
Stewardship Utah Foundation	$120,000	4	4%
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp	$115,000	3	2%
Children of the Setting Sun Product	$105,000	3	2%
Greening Youth Foundation Inc	$100,000	2	1%
Pacific Rivers	$100,000	2	14%
Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund	$100,000	2	9%
Wyoming Wildlife Federation	$100,000	2	8%
American Lands Project	$100,000	1	40%
First Nations Development Institute	$100,000	1	0%
Montana Environmental Information Center	$100,000	2	4%
Center for Science in Public Participation	$100,000	5	13%
Conservation Voters for Idaho Education Fund Inc	$95,000	2	14%
Southeast Alaska Indiginous Transboundary Commissi	$90,000	3	13%
Environmental Investigation Agency	$90,000	1	1%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$90,000	1	0%
Humane World for Animals Inc	$85,000	5	0%
University of Idaho Foundation Inc	$83,000	2	0%
The Alaska Center Education Fund	$80,000	2	2%
Montana Wilderness Association	$80,000	1	3%
Property and Environment Research Center	$75,000	3	1%
International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc	$70,000	2	1%
Amphibian & Reptile Conservancy Inc	$70,000	2	2%
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge	$70,000	2	7%
Soul River Inc	$69,000	3	11%
Beaver Institute Inc	$65,000	2	16%
Silvix Resources	$65,000	2	10%
Taxpayers for Common Sense	$60,000	1	3%
Hopa Mountain Inc	$50,000	2	2%
Willamette Partnership	$50,000	2	1%
High Country News	$50,000	1	1%
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Boise State University Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
The Sand County Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Piikani Lodge Health Institute	$40,000	2	1%
GreenLatinos	$40,000	1	1%
Gwichin Steering Committee	$40,000	2	4%
Harmony Hill of Union	$40,000	1	3%
Project Eleven Hundred	$40,000	4	n/a
Oregon State University Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
NatureServe	$25,000	1	0%
Not an Alternative Inc	$25,000	2	3%
Montana Racial Equity Project	$25,000	1	2%
Geos Institute	$23,690	1	5%
International League of Conservation Photographers	$20,000	3	1%
Grist Magazine Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Oregon Desert Land Trust	$15,000	1	0%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$15,000	1	0%
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$15,000	1	4%
Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians	$15,000	1	n/a
Mt Adams Resource Stewards	$15,000	1	1%
University of Wyoming Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Inquiring Systems Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Environmental Grantmakers Association	$10,000	1	0%
George Wright Society	$10,000	1	3%
Colorado State University Foundation	$10,000	2	0%
Alaska Conservation Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
The Pew Charitable Trusts	$10,000	1	0%
Peak Grantmaking Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Power Shift Network	$7,000	1	0%
Climate Justice Initiative	$6,000	1	n/a
United Philanthropy Forum	$5,000	1	0%
University of Alaska Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
The Common Ground Project	$5,000	1	4%
Leadership Montana Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Wild Hope Inc Sierra Treks/Littlefoot Expeditions	$5,000	1	3%
Open Space Institute Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Alaska Pacific University	$3,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.

Wilburforce Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 154 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 154.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA98.7× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Wilburforce Foundation

How much does Wilburforce Foundation give?: Wilburforce Foundation reported 225 grants totaling $19,341,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 135 and 145 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Wilburforce Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (75%), Philanthropy (8%), Animals (6%).
Who are Wilburforce Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Together Rising as an Environmental Community ($8.0M), The Wilderness Society ($3.3M), Yellowstone to Yukon ($1.7M).
Does Wilburforce Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wilburforce Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wilburforce Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Resources Legacy Fund, Western Conservation Foundation.
Where is Wilburforce Foundation based?: Wilburforce Foundation is based in WA.