New York · Public charity
Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
- $24M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $6.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $52,514
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,266,855
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Wildlife Conservation Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $6.7M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $7.4M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $6.3M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $7.0M | 48% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $3.6M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $3.6M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $7.8M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $7.4M | 51% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $14,519,392 | 9 | 2% |
| Internews Network | $2,618,633 | 3 | 1% |
| Partners for Development | $2,066,484 | 2 | 38% |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $2,005,857 | 9 | 2% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $1,852,490 | 3 | n/a |
| Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation | $1,697,587 | 6 | 4% |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $1,551,355 | 4 | 0% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $1,486,537 | 3 | 3% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $1,438,550 | 8 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,361,123 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 139 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Wildlife Conservation Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 115 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · National Forest Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Wilburforce Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Weeden Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc
How this is measured
About Wildlife Conservation Society
- How much does Wildlife Conservation Society give?
- Wildlife Conservation Society reported 39 itemized grants totaling $6,949,680, out of $24,128,708 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wildlife Conservation Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (81%), Animals (14%), International (4%).
- Who are Wildlife Conservation Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: World Wildlife Fund Inc ($15M), Internews Network ($2.6M), Partners for Development ($2.1M).
- Does Wildlife Conservation Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wildlife Conservation Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Patagoniaorg.
- Where is Wildlife Conservation Society based?
- Wildlife Conservation Society is based in NY.
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