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Wild Sheep Foundation

Wsf enhances wild sheep populations, promotes scientific wildlife management, and educates the public and youth on sustainable use and the conservation benefits of hunting while promoting the interests of the hunter.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
—
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$42MReligion$937kEnvironment$185kEducation$75kArts & Culture$55kYouth Development$28kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 62 grants below total $8,957,260, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,211,928 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,254,668 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $832k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $6.7M
$30,000
Median grant
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States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATE FISH & GAME PROGRAM FUNDING$6,011,824
Individual grant recipient$357,900
WILD SHEEP LEGACY FOUNDATION$324,825
LEADING EDGE AVIATION LLC$162,867
HELI SOURCE LTD$118,753
TOWN OF VAIL$117,924
Individual grant recipient$100,000
GIA 2425-55$98,556
Individual grant recipient$82,550
CONKLIN FOUNDATION$76,450
Individual grant recipient$73,750
TELONICS INC$72,377
GIA 2425-64$71,750
Individual grant recipient$68,605
MOUNTAIN STATES RESTORATION LLC$58,250
02The need
03

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$1.2M · 100% · 17 grants

Stated purpose: SHEEP ENHANCEMENT

How this is measured
Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 54 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
111

Total granted

$40M
$3.4M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SF
    STATE FISH & GAME PROGRAM FUNDING
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28M
  • WS
    WILD SHEEP LEGACY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M
  • SP
    SHEEP PROGRAM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $147k
  • JA
    JACK ATCHESON & SON INC
    one grant, 2019 · $140k
  • WM
    WORLD MTN UNGULATE CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2020 · $123k
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
04the grantee network

0 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. 0 of the 201 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE FISH & GAME PROGRAM FUNDING: $28,374,430 · OtherSTATE FISH & GAME PROGRAM FUNDINGWILD SHEEP LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,973,075 · Other+198 more: $14,075,155 · Other+198 more
Other$44,422,660

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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 201 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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