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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 FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 8%CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL: $7k → 16%ANCIENT FOREST INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 18%MANITOGA INCORPORATED: $5k → 6%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $5k → 17%KAGYU CHANGCHUB CHULING: $5k → 12%NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL: $8k → 15%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6k → 6%CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 16%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6k → 6%CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 16%NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL: $8k → 15%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6k → 6%CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 16%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6k → 6%RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK: $6k → 10%NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL: $8k → 15%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6k → 6%RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK: $6k → 10%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6k → 6%RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK: $6k → 10%NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL: $8k → 15%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $6k → 6%ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 18%ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 18%NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL: $8k → 15%ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 18%ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 18%NATURA INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL: $8k → 15%ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 18%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: $11k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 18%ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 18%COMMUNITY QUALITY: $11k → 14%JACK STRAW CULTURAL CENTER: $8k → 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: $11k → 14%VASHON REPERTORY THEATRE: $14k → 9%UMO ENSEMBLE: $8k → 9%NATURA INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 14%UMO ENSEMBLE: $7k → 9%UMO ENSEMBLE: $7k → 9%VASHON - MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $6k → 9%UMO ENSEMBLE: $6k → 9%VASHON - MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $6k → 9%VASHON - MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $6k → 9%VASHON - MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $6k → 9%VASHON - MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $6k → 9%VASHON - MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$842k · 44 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
2

Total granted

$842k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
0%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RA
    Rainforest Action Network
    7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +21%
  • SS
    SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +75%
  • VI
    VASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST
    7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • VR
    Vashon Repertory Theatre
    one grant, 2025 · $14k · revenue 0%
  • JS
    JACK STRAW CULTURAL CENTER
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Washington Forest Law Center

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.

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4
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
5
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
6
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
7
Environment Now
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8
The Nature Conservancy

The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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9
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
10
Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.

Animals
11
CalWild

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.

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12
Fundacion Cordillera Tropical

Conservation of natural resources

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Conservation Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Vashon Repertory Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
32/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Native Forest Council Inc: $52,500 · EnvironmentNative Forest Council IncRainforest Action Network: $43,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Action NetworkVASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST: $41,000 · EnvironmentVASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUSTEnvironmental Protection Information Center Inc: $39,500 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Protection Information Center IncOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $35,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCYWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $34,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $31,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $31,000 · EnvironmentInfact DBA Corporate AccountabilityENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $29,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDMANITOGA INC: $27,000 · EnvironmentMANITOGA INCALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $26,500 · EnvironmentALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION+13 more: $105,200 · Environment+13 moreIndividual grant recipient: $37,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANCIENT FOREST INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 · OtherANCIENT FOREST INTERNATIONA…Individual grant recipient: $33,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILDLIFE CONSERVATION: $22,000 · OtherWILDLIFE CONSERVATIONVashon Repertory Theatre: $14,000 · OtherVashon Repertory TheatreKAGYU DAKSHANG CHULING: $14,000 · OtherKAGYU DAKSHANG CHULINGINTERFAITH COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS: $13,000 · OtherINTERFAITH COUNCIL ON HOMEL…WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $12,500 · OtherWILDERNESS WORKSHOPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONJACK STRAW CULTURAL CENTER: $8,000 · Other+3 more: $10,400 · OtherSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $41,500 · AnimalsREWILD: $16,000 · AnimalsALLIANCE FOR TOMPOTIKA CONSERVATION: $3,500 · AnimalsNATURA INTERNATIONAL INC: $39,000 · Public BenefitVOICE OF VASHON: $17,500 · Arts & CultureNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $14,000 · Arts & CultureVASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $10,500 · Food & NutritionAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $8,000 · Science & TechHARBOR SCHOOL: $7,000 · Education
Environment$495,200Other$211,500Animals$61,000Public Benefit$39,000Arts & Culture$31,500Food & Nutrition$10,500Science & Tech$8,000Education$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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