How much does Wilderness Society Action Fund give?

Wilderness Society Action Fund reported 5 itemized grants totaling $57,500, out of $62,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wilderness Society Action Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (97%), Animals (3%).

Who are Wilderness Society Action Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Western Organization of Resource Councils ($75k), Big Sky Fifty Five Plus ($70k), Alaska Wilderness League Action ($60k).

Does Wilderness Society Action Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wilderness Society Action Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, The Wilderness Society, Western Conservation Foundation.

Where is Wilderness Society Action Fund based?

Wilderness Society Action Fund is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Wilderness Society Action Fund

The WILDERNESS SOCIETY ACTION FUND works with partners and lawmakers to influence policy related to public lands. This includes public lands' role as part of the climate solution, their importance in addressing the extinction crisis and the importance of all people being to enjoy their benefits.

$63k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Itemized grants FY2025: 4
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $58k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $7,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 6; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Wilderness Society Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsEducationAnimalsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	5	$58k	80%
FY2024	4	$54k	100%
FY2023	3	$55k	67%
FY2022	4	$78k	75%
FY2021	4	$77k	50%
FY2020	6	$230k	100%
FY2019	1	$10k	100%
FY2018	2	$24k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$511kAnimals$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Western Organization of Resource Councils	$75,000	1	2%
Big Sky Fifty Five Plus	$70,000	1	14%
Alaska Wilderness League Action	$60,000	3	6%
Montana Conservation Voters Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Montana Wilderness Association	$34,500	2	1%
Wilderness Workshop	$30,000	1	2%
Wallowa Resources Inc	$29,500	1	1%
Vet Voice Foundation Inc	$28,500	2	1%
American Hunters & Anglers Action Network	$25,000	1	n/a
Wabanaki Alliance	$21,000	1	6%

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All grantees of Wilderness Society Action Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Western Organization of Resource Councils	$75,000	1	2%
Big Sky Fifty Five Plus	$70,000	1	14%
Alaska Wilderness League Action	$60,000	3	6%
Montana Conservation Voters Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Montana Wilderness Association	$34,500	2	1%
Wilderness Workshop	$30,000	1	2%
Wallowa Resources Inc	$29,500	1	1%
Vet Voice Foundation Inc	$28,500	2	1%
American Hunters & Anglers Action Network	$25,000	1	n/a
Wabanaki Alliance	$21,000	1	6%
The Partnership Project Action Fund	$18,008	1	0%
Just Strategy	$15,000	1	1%
Mt Mountain Mamas	$15,000	1	n/a
The Semilla Project	$15,000	2	0%
National Wildlife Federation	$15,000	1	0%
Alaska Wilderness League	$12,500	1	0%
West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Boundary Waters Action Fund	$10,000	1	2%
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness	$10,000	1	0%
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project	$10,000	1	1%
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment Inc	$9,000	1	2%
New Mexico Wild Action Fund	$8,250	1	1%
Coalition to Protect Americas National	$6,500	1	1%
Earthjustice	$6,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilderness Society Action Fund supplied at peak.

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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 22.

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.

Resources Legacy FundCA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · The Wilderness Society · Western Conservation Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Western Conservation Action · The Partnership Project Inc · Energy Action Fund · America Votes · Tides Foundation · Nrdc Action Fund Inc · National Wildlife Federation

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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About Wilderness Society Action Fund

How much does Wilderness Society Action Fund give?: Wilderness Society Action Fund reported 5 itemized grants totaling $57,500, out of $62,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wilderness Society Action Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (97%), Animals (3%).
Who are Wilderness Society Action Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Western Organization of Resource Councils ($75k), Big Sky Fifty Five Plus ($70k), Alaska Wilderness League Action ($60k).
Does Wilderness Society Action Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wilderness Society Action Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, The Wilderness Society, Western Conservation Foundation.
Where is Wilderness Society Action Fund based?: Wilderness Society Action Fund is based in DC.