· Public charity
World Wildlife Fund Inc
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 66 grants below total $8,157,225 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $96,472,420 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $88,315,195 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $660k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,181,960 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $697,549 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $665,654 |
| THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $425,656 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES | $350,000 |
| WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE | $259,999 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $209,174 |
| C2ES | $207,605 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $185,560 |
| WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE | $181,640 |
| CARE | $178,250 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $177,172 |
| WOMEN IN RANCHING | $154,980 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $142,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Grants abroad, by region — $87M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $86M to organizations and $1.0M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
Stated purpose: CONSERVATION
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 28 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- WCWildlife Conservation Society6× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +59%
- CFCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation3× · 2021–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +103% · 29% of their budget
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +68%
Funded once
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $931k · revenue +14%- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2018 · $593k
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $360k · revenue -28%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.
Aei is a non profit ideation collaborative studio creating globalscale, ecological based solutions for a climate positive future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundations of Success Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Dakota Natural Resources Trust. 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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
188 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 188 of the 265 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Center for Heirs' Property Preservation ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT ENTERPRISE AND SELF- SUSTAINABILITY TEAM INC (NESST) ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds CDP NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds WINNETT ACES INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE AQUACULTURE INNOVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ranchers Stewardship Alliance ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Climateworks Foundation · New Venture Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · World Resources Institute · The Rockefeller Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · First Nations Development Institute · Wal-Mart Foundation
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 World Wildlife Fund Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Inter-Tribal Council Inc — 100% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 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.