· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CRYSTAL VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOC | $5,000 |
| MANITOGA | $5,000 |
| ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| THE WILD CENTER | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wild Waters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wild Waters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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