· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k38 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURA INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| VASHON REPERTORY THEATRE | $14,000 |
| JACK STRAW CULTURAL CENTER | $8,000 |
| RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK | $7,000 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL | $6,500 |
| VASHON - MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST | $6,000 |
| SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER | $5,500 |
| ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ANCIENT FOREST INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $5,000 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 8%. 86% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RARainforest Action Network7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +21%
- SSSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +75%
- VIVASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- VRVashon Repertory Theatreone grant, 2025 · $14k · revenue 0%
- JSJACK STRAW CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2025 · $8k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
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.…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Conservation of natural resources
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 46 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 Native Forest Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Environmental Protection Information Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF VASHON ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds Ocean Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Vashon Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
- Who funds BURN DESIGN LAB ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NW ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wild Woods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wild Woods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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