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Wild Woods 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.

$148k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
36 to 41
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wild Woods Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsScience & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving39$148k5%
FY202437$118k0%
FY202341$129k0%
FY202241$127k10%
FY202137$111k0%
FY202039$117k10%
FY201936$112kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$598kAnimals$87kArts & Culture$62kReligion$14kHousing & Shelter$13kFood & Nutrition$11kEducation$7kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Native Forest Council Inc$52,50078%
Rainforest Action Network$43,00070%
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society$41,50070%
Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust$41,00071%
Environmental Protection Information Center Inc$39,50072%
Natura International Inc$39,00037%
Ocean Conservancy$35,00070%
Ancient Forest International$35,0007n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$34,00070%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$31,50070%
Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wild Woods Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNative Forest Council Inc: $52,500 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $43,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSea Shepherd Conservation Society: $41,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVashon-Maury Island Land Trust: $41,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEnvironmental Protection Information Center Inc: $39,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNatura International Inc: $39,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $31,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetManitoga Inc: $27,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAlaska Conservation Foundation: $26,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVoice of Vashon: $17,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetRewild: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Alliance Inc: $16,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVashon Repertory Theatre: $14,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNatural History Museum of the Adirondacks: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBurn Design Lab: $14,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetConservation Nw: $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Workshop: $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVashon Island Growers Association: $10,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAspen Valley Land Trust: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmazon Conservation Team: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmazon Conservation Association: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Redwoods League: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Adirondack Council Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor School: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRoaring Fork Conservancy: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Tompotika Conservation: $3,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thompson Divide Coalition: $3,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSempervirens Fund: $2,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Crest Trail Association: $800 over 7y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Wild Waters Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Wild Woods Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wild Woods Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wild Woods Foundation

How much does Wild Woods Foundation give?
Wild Woods Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $148,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Wild Woods Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (69%), Animals (10%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Wild Woods Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Native Forest Council Inc ($53k), Rainforest Action Network ($43k), Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ($42k).
Does Wild Woods Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wild Woods 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 Woods Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Wild Waters Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Wild Woods Foundation based?
Wild Woods Foundation is based in NY.

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 46 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-PF 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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