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Wild Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANITOGA INCORPORATED | $60,000 |
| UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $24,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LREI | $10,000 |
| THE WILD CENTER | $8,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $7,035 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $6,500 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $6,000 |
| WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $5,000 |
| CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER | $4,620 |
| RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $4,000 |
| SYMPHONY SPACE | $3,880 |
| THE BRICK CHURCH SCHOOL | $3,750 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY7× · 2019–2025 · $131k · revenue +8%- NHNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +68%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NYCone grant, 2024 · $3k
- ALADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -58%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
- Who funds Corlears School ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds CAMBA INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY MALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Princeton-Blairstown Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROCKEFELLER STATE PARK PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE FOR ARTS & COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Christodora Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PLAZA CINEMA INC ↗
- Who funds Allied Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Fjc · Overhills Foundation · Ag Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 organization Wild 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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 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.