How much did WILD WATERS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of WILD WATERS 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.

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $47k
$10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATURA INTERNATIONAL$56,000
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL$54,000
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$14,000
OPEN SPACE FOR ARTS & COMMUNITY$10,000
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ASSOC (SUWA)$7,500
WALDORF SCHOOL ON THE ROARING FORK$7,000
MT SOPRIS NORDIC COUNCIL$6,000
CRYSTAL VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOC$5,000
HIGH COUNTRY NEWS RESEARCH$5,000
MANITOGA$5,000
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$5,000
THE WILD CENTER$3,000
CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY$3,000

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 64% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$955k · 20 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$955k

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+149%

+210%

Still filing today

55%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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

NATURA INTERNATIONAL
2× · 2024–2025 · $106k · revenue +73%
WW
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP
7× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +149%
GLOBAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +236%

Funded once

CQ
COMMUNITY QUALITY
one grant, 2019 · $24k
CR
COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
one grant, 2019 · $12k
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BCGTP
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Rainforest Trust

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

International

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

Regenerative Earth

Preserving biological diversity and indigenous wisdom in keystone ecosystems globally, as well as enabling conditions where humans and the environment thrive within.

Environment

Natura Bolivia Foundation

Natura Bolivia Foundation is dedicated to conserving rainforests and habitats in Latin America, in a way that contributes to the well-being of local communities. We also work to develop watershed conservation and incentive systems, and…

International

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

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

Woodstock Land Conservancy

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment

Washington Wild

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

Animals

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through the support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.

Animals

Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment

Conservation Lands Foundation

To protect, restore, and expand the National Conservation Lands through education,advocacy, and partnerships.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rewild and the most unlike its peers is Allied Arts Foundation. 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

13 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)

13/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$699,100Public Benefit$106,000Environment$86,400Animals$60,000Arts & Culture$55,000Community Improvement$2,000

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.

Wild Woods FoundationNY18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wild Woods Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Brady Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 WILD WATERS 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: NATURA INTERNATIONAL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +73% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311667319 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 NATURA INTERNATIONAL, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
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 Wild Waters Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wild Waters 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.

WILD WATERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wild Waters Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WILD WATERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wild Waters Foundation?

More from the funding graph