· Private foundation
Wilson Conservation Trust
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ocean Conservancy Inc | $5,000 |
| Grand Canyon Trust | $5,000 |
| Colorado Fourteeners Initiative | $5,000 |
| Finch Research Network | $5,000 |
| Panthera Corp | $5,000 |
| Phillippi Crest Club Inc | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Sarasota Bay Watch | $1,000 |
| American Birding Association | $1,000 |
| Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch | $1,000 |
| National Loon Center | $1,000 |
| Vermont Center for Ecostudies | $1,000 |
| Charles River Watershed Assn | $1,000 |
| Conservation Law Foundation | $1,000 |
| Biotecture Planet Earth | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Wilson Conservation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 22 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- WIWSLR INC3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +156%
- TVTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC3× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +11%
- ABAMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CHCONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TXone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -81%
- FOFriends of the Boundary Watersone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MCMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -11%
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.
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
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.…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elberta Labor Heritage Center. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 54 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 SARASOTA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WSLR INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX ↗
- Who funds MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OYSTER RIVER ECOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AVIAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Saguaro National Park ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Wild Farm Alliance ↗
- Who funds Travis Audubon Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds BIOTECTURE PLANET EARTH INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Wilson Conservation Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Klamath Bird Observatory — 100% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Oyster River Ecology Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watchinc — 0% of income from government
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.