How much does Wild Foundation give?

Wild Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $199,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Wild Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Education (29%), Arts & Culture (18%).

Who are Wild Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Manitoga Inc ($365k), Union Theological Seminary ($131k), Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks ($50k).

Does Wild Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wild Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wild Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.

Where is Wild Foundation based?

Wild Foundation is based in NY.

Wild Foundation

Wild Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$199k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$432kEducation$347kArts & Culture$223kRecreation & Sports$54kFood & Nutrition$41kHuman Services$27kYouth Development$25kInternational$22kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k33 grants · $95k
$10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MANITOGA INCORPORATED	$60,000
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY	$24,000
LREI	$10,000
TRINITY SCHOOL	$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
FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD	$4,000
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY	$4,000
SYMPHONY SPACE	$3,880
THE BRICK CHURCH SCHOOL	$3,750
FRIENDS OF ROCKEFELLER STATE PARK PRESERVE	$3,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 58 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+28%

Still filing today

83%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
7× · 2019–2025 · $131k · revenue +8%
NH
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS
7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +68%
NY
NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +12%

Funded once

RM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NYC
one grant, 2024 · $3k
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +8%
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ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -58%

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.

New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment

Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

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…

Recreation & Sports

Governors Island Corporation

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…

Animals

New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.

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New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

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…

Environment

Hudson Yards Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement

Wamc

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…

Arts & Culture

The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education

New York League of Conservation Voters

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…

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The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment

The Architectural League of New York

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 78 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

42/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$404,650Other$319,487Education$255,295Arts & Culture$175,104International$25,000Youth Development$19,000Community Improvement$17,500

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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home