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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.
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 $10k9 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HIGH COUNTRY NEWS RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| MANITOGA | $5,000 |
| CRYSTAL VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOC | $5,000 |
| ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| THE WILD CENTER | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of your 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- IDInfact DBA Corporate Accountability7× · 2019–2025 · $275k · revenue +14%
NATURA INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +465%- WWWILDERNESS WORKSHOP7× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- CRCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +62%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY BCGTPone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MManausone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -53%
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.
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…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
To protect and enhance agricultural land, wildlife habitat and scenic lands in western colorado to benefit the community at large, enrich lives, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation for future generations.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Valley Land Trust 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.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds NATURA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE FOR ARTS & COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
- Who funds Allied Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Central Colorado Conservacy ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SOPRIS NORDIC COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE SETTINGS ↗
- Who funds Manaus ↗
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: 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
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 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.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% 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.
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