New York · Private foundation
Wild Waters 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.
- $181k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $56,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Wild Waters Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $181k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $160k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $160k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $158k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $119k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $115k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $117k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $274,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Natura International Inc | $129,600 | 3 | 18% |
| Wilderness Workshop | $66,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Rewild | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Space for Arts & Community | $42,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Roaring Fork Conservancy | $40,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Manitoga Inc | $27,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Allied Arts Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association Inc | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $274,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Natura International Inc | $129,600 | 3 | 18% |
| Wilderness Workshop | $66,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Rewild | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Space for Arts & Community | $42,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Roaring Fork Conservancy | $40,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Manitoga Inc | $27,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Allied Arts Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association Inc | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Aspen Valley Land Trust | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Colorado Conservacy | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mount Sopris Nordic Council Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Trees Water and People | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sustainable Settings | $2,200 | 2 | 1% |
| Manaus | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($243k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wild Waters Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Wild Woods Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Brady Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Wild Waters Foundation
- How much does Wild Waters Foundation give?
- Wild Waters Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $180,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Wild Waters Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Animals (14%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Wild Waters Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ($275k), Natura International Inc ($130k), Wilderness Workshop ($66k).
- Does Wild Waters Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wild Waters 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 Waters Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Wild Woods Foundation.
- Where is Wild Waters Foundation based?
- Wild Waters Foundation is based in NY.
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