How much does Wildlife Conservation Network Inc give?

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc reported 17 itemized grants totaling $5,736,448, out of $45,772,264 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wildlife Conservation Network Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Animals (40%), Education (6%).

Who are Wildlife Conservation Network Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Trust for Public Land ($5.8M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($5.2M), Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation ($2.6M).

Does Wildlife Conservation Network Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wildlife Conservation Network Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, The Woodtiger Fund, The Nature Conservancy.

Where is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc based?

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

$46M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 55%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $5.7M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $238,402
Largest grant, FY2025: $896,621
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 25; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $98M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Wildlife Conservation Network Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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	16	$5.0M	44%
FY2024	11	$7.0M	55%
FY2023	10	$1.6M	20%
FY2022	11	$4.3M	55%
FY2021	6	$5.8M	100%
FY2020	25	$6.5M	32%
FY2019	21	$5.0M	33%
FY2018	17	$2.7M	24%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$20MAnimals$17MEducation$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.5MRecreation & Sports$562kInternational$538kPublic Benefit$225kCrime & Legal$34k

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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Trust for Public Land	$5,830,000	3	3%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$5,246,253	4	1%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation	$2,630,811	7	5%
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US Inc	$2,498,320	3	15%
Panthera Corporation	$1,891,107	5	3%
University of California Davis	$1,825,050	3	n/a
California YIMBY Education Fund	$1,540,367	2	21%
Wildaid Inc	$1,409,985	4	11%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space	$1,181,263	2	25%
Wild Earth Society Incorporated	$1,139,194	3	18%

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All grantees of Wildlife Conservation Network Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Trust for Public Land	$5,830,000	3	3%
Wildlife Conservation Society	$5,246,253	4	1%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation	$2,630,811	7	5%
Frankfurt Zoological Society - US Inc	$2,498,320	3	15%
Panthera Corporation	$1,891,107	5	3%
University of California Davis	$1,825,050	3	n/a
California YIMBY Education Fund	$1,540,367	2	21%
Wildaid Inc	$1,409,985	4	11%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space	$1,181,263	2	25%
Wild Earth Society Incorporated	$1,139,194	3	18%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation	$1,000,000	1	0%
Friends of the Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Wildlife Crossing Fund	$1,000,000	1	n/a
The Honey Lake Valley Resource Conservation District	$896,621	1	n/a
Environment in the Public Interest	$838,000	4	n/a
Maralliance	$786,645	4	35%
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills	$624,093	3	19%
Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation	$618,585	4	87%
The Bureau of Land Management Foundation	$600,000	1	n/a
International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc	$577,517	4	7%
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc	$539,260	4	34%
Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority	$505,280	1	n/a
Amah Mutsun Land Trust	$500,000	1	8%
Santa Monica Mountains Rcd	$500,000	1	n/a
Endangered Habitats League	$456,000	2	17%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$415,322	2	0%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$395,000	2	1%
University of Wyoming Foundation	$393,000	2	0%
Snow Leopard Conservancy	$360,919	4	16%
Cheetah Conservation Fund	$322,096	4	3%
Rewild	$250,036	3	1%
Sustainable Systems Research Foundation	$225,000	1	63%
Regents of the University of California	$221,919	3	n/a
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation	$200,000	1	n/a
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County	$195,350	3	1%
Kopelion Inc	$179,959	2	81%
Conservation Science Partners Inc	$176,325	1	n/a
The Chaparral Lands Conservancy	$171,658	1	38%
Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary	$170,351	2	35%
Giraffe Conservation Foundation USA	$149,399	4	7%
Chengeta Wildlife	$144,822	1	26%
Working Dogs For Conservation Found	$124,000	6	2%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$115,000	2	0%
University of Washington	$100,000	1	n/a
Save the Rhino International Inc	$100,000	1	5%
Eco Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement	$100,000	1	6%
Maliasili Initiatives Inc	$85,000	1	2%
University of Washington	$56,929	1	n/a
South Coast Wildlands	$51,745	2	38%
The International Rhino Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Planet Indonesia	$50,000	1	8%
Liberty Asia (US) Inc	$45,300	1	31%
Florida International University Foundation Inc	$38,700	1	0%
Alliance to Counter Crime Online	$34,186	1	16%
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc	$30,218	1	1%
Wild Earth Allies Inc	$19,049	1	n/a
The Seattle Aquarium Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Polar Bears International	$9,907	1	0%
Houston Zoo Inc	$7,860	1	0%
Conservation International Foundation	$5,890	1	0%

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 45.

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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.

Resources Legacy FundCA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · The Woodtiger Fund · The Nature Conservancy · National Geographic Society · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Trust for Public Land · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

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 Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

How much does Wildlife Conservation Network Inc give?: Wildlife Conservation Network Inc reported 17 itemized grants totaling $5,736,448, out of $45,772,264 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wildlife Conservation Network Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Animals (40%), Education (6%).
Who are Wildlife Conservation Network Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Trust for Public Land ($5.8M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($5.2M), Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation ($2.6M).
Does Wildlife Conservation Network Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wildlife Conservation Network Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, The Woodtiger Fund, The Nature Conservancy.
Where is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc based?: Wildlife Conservation Network Inc is based in CA.