Florida · 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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Wilson Conservation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 28 | $47k | 79% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $50k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $50k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $50k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $40k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarasota Audubon Society Inc | $40,026 | 3 | 7% |
| Parklands Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Wslr Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marine Conservation Biology Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Conservation History Association of Tx | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Finch Research Network Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Birding Association | $8,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Oyster River Ecology Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilson Conservation Trust supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Wilson Conservation Trust
- How much does Wilson Conservation Trust give?
- Wilson Conservation Trust reported 28 grants totaling $46,526 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wilson Conservation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Animals (33%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Wilson Conservation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sarasota Audubon Society Inc ($40k), Parklands Foundation Inc ($12k), Wslr Inc ($11k).
- Does Wilson Conservation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wilson Conservation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wilson Conservation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Ibm International Foundation, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wilson Conservation Trust based?
- Wilson Conservation Trust is based in FL.
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