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Wilderness River 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESCOTT COLLEGE | $120,000 |
| CHILDREN AND NATURE NETWORK | $40,000 |
| WILDERNESS INQUIRY | $12,000 |
| DETROIT LAKES COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| ECOSA INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $8,000 |
| PELICAN LAKE SAILING SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| IRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH | $6,000 |
| YAVAPAI EXCEPTIONAL INDUSTRIES | $4,000 |
| WHALE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| UNSEEN - HUMAN TRAFFICKING | $4,000 |
| TNT KIDS FITNESS | $4,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL DISABILITY | $4,000 |
| NATURAL HISTORY INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| PELICAN LAKES COMMUNITY FDN | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 1 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; $10k 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
- WIWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +221%
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +62%
- ISIRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- HFHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +85%
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.
Wild Arizonas mission is to protect, unite, and restore wild lands and waters across Arizona and beyond, for the enrichment and health of all generations, and to ensure Arizona's native plants and animals a lasting home in wild nature.
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,…
ETC provides accessible outdoor adventures including whitewater rafting, sea kayaking and leadership training, for people with disabilities, youth from under-resourced backgrounds and volunteer guides.
Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Grand Canyon Youth (GCY) offers educational outdoor expeditions that connect young people (ages 10 19) to the transformative power of the rivers and canyons of the Southwest. GCY has served over 14,000 youth in the 28 years since its…
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Wenatchee river institute provides environmental learning experiences connecting people, communities and the natural world.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
To provide youth opportunities to explore the natural world, giving them outdoor experiences that will sustain and enrich their physical and mental well-being throughout their lives.
Wild Whatcom's mission is to foster lifelong connections with nature and community through outdoor exploration and service.
The Kiva Center's mission is to build inner strength and compassion in youth through transformational nature-connection experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilderness Inquiry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amistad Worldwide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds IRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds TNT Kid's Fitness ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY RIDERS ↗
- Who funds Natural History Institute ↗
- Who funds The Launch Pad Teen Center ↗
- Who funds DLCCC INC ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds KAMP KACE ↗
- Who funds Prescott Creeks Preservation Association ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND CARES ↗
- Who funds Granite Dells Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Yavapai Exceptional Industries ↗
- Who funds CHOICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE ↗
- Who funds Amistad Worldwide ↗
- Who funds ECOSA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Whale Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon River Guides Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wilderness River 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.
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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