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World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

$96M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
66
Itemized grants FY2025
64
Organizations funded FY2024
48%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$8.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$47,848
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,181,960
Organizations funded a year
34 to 68
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
21
Total assets, FY2025
$777M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations World Wildlife Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving62$4.6M45%
FY202464$9.4M48%
FY202368$7.1M44%
FY202246$4.4M61%
FY202146$6.5M50%
FY202040$3.1M63%
FY201934$1.3M62%
FY201835$5.4M54%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$42MAnimals$6.6MEducation$1.4MFood & Nutrition$812kScience & Tech$701kCommunity Improvement$692kCrime & Legal$650kInternational$545kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wildlife Conservation Society$3,531,52261%
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation$3,076,305329%
Cooperative for Assis & Relief(CARE) Inc$1,915,2423n/a
World Resources Institute$1,709,68470%
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences$1,638,62655%
Conservation International Foundation$1,479,20650%
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc$1,327,99644%
Rosebud Economic Development Corporation$1,324,6194n/a
Nonprofit Enterprise and Self- Sustainability Team Inc (Nesst)$1,270,425510%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$930,75510%
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All grantees of World Wildlife Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wildlife Conservation Society$3,531,52261%
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation$3,076,305329%
Cooperative for Assis & Relief(CARE) Inc$1,915,2423n/a
World Resources Institute$1,709,68470%
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences$1,638,62655%
Conservation International Foundation$1,479,20650%
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc$1,327,99644%
Rosebud Economic Development Corporation$1,324,6194n/a
Nonprofit Enterprise and Self- Sustainability Team Inc (Nesst)$1,270,425510%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$930,75510%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation$767,39348%
Rewild$704,74751%
Cornell University$605,15440%
Regents of the University of California$592,8871n/a
University of California Davis$570,3625n/a
Conservation Strategy Fund$568,001314%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$563,91730%
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor$545,65621%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$545,09020%
Cdp North America Inc$528,42031%
Ceres Inc$500,00021%
East Carolina University$489,3632n/a
Winnett Aces Inc$485,394429%
University System of New Hampshire$484,1742n/a
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment & Security$438,41343%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation$430,53321%
George Mason University$414,1934n/a
American Bird Conservancy$393,01341%
International Snow Leopard Trust$381,466311%
United Nations Foundation Inc$360,00010%
Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center$354,673515%
Ranchers Stewardship Alliance$350,215521%
Island Institute$321,74222%
Pheasants Forever Inc$303,22350%
Baldrige Performance Excellence Pro$300,0001n/a
Duke University$293,85330%
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation$290,00023%
University of Minnesota$286,7743n/a
Global Cold Chain Foundation$286,421210%
Global Water Challenge$264,27613%
University of Washington$261,0605n/a
Florida International University$254,8943n/a
Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance$252,206221%
Conservation X Labs Inc$250,0251n/a
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars$245,72540%
National Park Service$243,7541n/a
Maine Aquaculture Association$243,7374n/a
Defenders of Wildlife$242,47431%
Panthera Corporation$226,5001n/a
Western Sustainability Exchange$217,64025%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$212,77820%
Multiplier$205,00010%
Women in Ranching Inc$204,731211%
South Dakota State University Foundation$198,81420%
Rio Grande Return$197,055110%
Rare$192,85611%
Aaniiih Nakoda College (Fort Belknap College)$191,01940%
Trout Unlimited Inc$190,00010%
The Pew Charitable Trusts$188,00010%
Maliasili Initiatives Inc$186,53342%
University of Maine System Inc$185,5601n/a
Rainforest Alliance Inc$184,60710%
Indigenous Peoples Council for Marine Mammals$182,166333%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$180,53620%
Fort Peck Community College$175,23241%
University of Washington$174,9042n/a
US Department of Agriculture$154,8364n/a
Second Nature Inc$154,83524%
Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation Inc$154,49429%
Texas Southern University Foundatio$150,00011%
North Carolina State Univ$150,0001n/a
Maine Aquaculture Association$150,000120%
Auburn University$149,9141n/a
University of Maryland College Park$147,0754n/a
Resolve Inc$143,24321%
Sandhills Task Force$136,173112%
Alaska Conservation Foundation$136,02532%
Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council$130,55342%
Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science$120,00011%
Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition$118,873523%
Digital Green Foundation$115,00011%
University of Hawaii System$110,5403n/a
Regents of the University of Minnesota$106,8231n/a
American Prairie Foundation$100,00040%
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc$100,00020%
United States Endowment for Forestry$100,00030%
Environment and Culture Partners$99,000219%
Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative$99,000112%
Inter-Tribal Council Inc$99,00014%
Symbioseas$99,00034%
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust$95,08911%
Refed Inc$90,00022%
Mahlstedt Ranch$88,2012n/a
Perpetual Use Inc$87,35015%
Alaska Geographic Association$86,12423%
University of Arkansas Fayetteville$84,9181n/a
US Naval Academy Foundation Inc$81,20810%
Aglaunch Initiative$80,00022%
Regents Univ of California$80,0001n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System$80,0001n/a
Wildlife Ecology Institute$78,03028%
University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc$77,99522%
Oregon Green Schools Association$74,350238%
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy$73,60010%
Meridian Institute$72,72340%
Florida International University Foundation Inc$69,39110%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$65,02310%
National Electrical Manufacturers Association$64,9001n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison$63,9482n/a
Prairie Wildlife Research Inc$62,000320%
Health in Harmony$60,75821%
University of Arkansas Foundation Inc$60,00010%
Rocking Dot Cattle LLC$60,0001n/a
Rasmussen-Lehman 33 Ranch LLC$60,0001n/a
Marine Exchange of Alaska Inc$60,00011%
Peace Corp$56,2501n/a
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation$55,37120%
Native Conservancy$54,30012%
Sustain Dane Inc$54,12627%
Boxerwood Education Association$53,75029%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$52,00010%
National Wildlife Federation$51,00040%
Auburn University Foundation$50,27610%
Homelands Research Group$50,0001n/a
Council on the Environment Inc$50,00010%
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc$50,00012%
Urban Green Lab$49,77727%
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory$48,37011%
Wedontwaste Inc$48,00010%
Mountainside Education and Enrichment Inc$48,000141%
Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Services$45,0001n/a
Earth Innovation Institute$44,58512%
South Dakota Grassland Coalition$43,00024%
Climate Policy Initiative Inc$42,49910%
Fort Belknap Indian Community$41,5742n/a
The Ocean Foundation$40,88910%
Stonehouse Ranch$40,3451n/a
Working Dogs For Conservation Found$40,27123%
The Terrell Green Acres LLC$40,0001n/a
Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio$40,0001n/a
Agricultural Research Service (Usda)$40,0001n/a
Cook Inletkeeper$40,00023%
The Box X LLC$39,6541n/a
Health Care Without Harm$39,50010%
B and G Land LLC Dba Taylor Creek Ranch$39,2491n/a
Yield Lab Institute$39,000213%
Ocean Conservancy$38,82810%
Montana Association of Conservation Districts$38,78332%
Terrell Land LLC$36,5941n/a
Rf Ranch LLC$36,0701n/a
Veebaray Co$35,6042n/a
Petroleum County Conservation District$35,6003n/a
Southern Group of Foresters Inc$35,000115%
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe$34,9401n/a
Calypso Farm & Ecology Center$33,95218%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$33,10010%
Louie Petrie Ranch$32,8901n/a
Global Conservation Network$30,5991n/a
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale$30,0001n/a
Johns Hopkins University$29,65910%
We Mean Business Coalition Inc$29,00010%
Keewaydin Ranch$28,9401n/a
Girl Plus Environment Corporation$28,750113%
University of Florida$28,0001n/a
Makoce Agriculture Development$27,50021%
Oregon State University$27,2501n/a
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$27,00010%
Northern Jaguar Project$27,00014%
US Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association Inc$26,00010%
US Forest Service$25,7682n/a
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization$25,6001n/a
State Of Alaska$25,6001n/a
University of Minnesota Foundation$25,00010%
Make Food Not Waste$25,00013%
Carolina International School$25,00010%
Healthy Minds Innovations Inc$25,00010%
The Kansas University Endowment Association$25,00010%
Bird Alliance of Central New Mexico$25,0001n/a
Seeds$25,00011%
Native Village of Kotzebue$25,0001n/a
Richard Holzer LLC$24,2891n/a
Native Village of Unalakleet$24,1811n/a
Montana Conservation Corps Inc$23,81220%
Clean Memphis Inc$23,3391n/a
Montana Association of Conservation Districts$23,20033%
Amherst Community Foundation Inc$22,500130%
Brigham Young University$22,0001n/a
Boulder Valley School District$21,9681n/a
Borderlands Research Institute$21,2751n/a
Fort Peck Tribes$20,6951n/a
Field Museum of Natural History$20,28010%
Coastal Enterprises Inc$20,27010%
Environmental Law Institute$20,0001n/a
Last Mile Food Rescue$20,00010%
Dillingham Arts Council Inc$20,0001n/a
Shishmaref Native Store Native Village of Shishmaref$20,00010%
Crow Trib of Indians$20,0001n/a
American University$19,77110%
4roots Foundation Inc$19,67711%
Native Village of Diomede$18,9181n/a
8 Range Ranch$18,3241n/a
Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust$17,8011n/a
Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council$17,50011%
The Aleut Foundation$17,07311%
Friends of Big Bend National Park$17,00014%
Turner Endangered Species Fund$16,2202n/a
Sdsn Association Inc$15,80010%
Barthelmess Ranch$15,6241n/a
Broward Education Foundation Inc$15,50010%
OceansAlaska$15,00015%
Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy$15,0001n/a
Food Rescue US Inc$15,0001n/a
Center for Responsible Travel$15,00012%
Second Harvest Heartland$15,00010%
Marine Stewardship Council Limited$14,79310%
Lankutis Ranch LLC$14,2651n/a
University of Alaska$13,7631n/a
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission$13,66710%
Spirit of Youth Foundation$13,1661n/a
South Dakota State University$12,8131n/a
Foundations of Success Inc$12,73011%
Wzb Farm$12,5651n/a
Forest Trends Association$11,88010%
Turner Institute of Ecoagriculture Inc$11,6681n/a
Oregon State University Foundation$11,50010%
Rural Dynamics Inc$11,10412%
National Audubon Society Inc$10,72010%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$10,49810%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$10,4601n/a
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$10,44010%
Hamilton County - Board of Elections$10,3991n/a
Sd Agricultural Land Trust$10,0001n/a
California Pelagic Fisheries Association$10,000139%
Keystone Center$10,00010%
Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education Inc$10,00010%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$10,00010%
Earthworks$10,00010%
South Dakota Cattlemens Association$10,0001n/a
Garfield Cnty Conservation District$10,0001n/a
Trustees for Alaska$10,00011%
The Keewaydin Foundation$7,58010%
Ocean Approved LLC$7,5001n/a
Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges$7,50016%
Foundation for Orange County Public Schools Inc$7,34710%
Greater Yellowstone Coalition$6,66710%
UIC Science LLC$6,4601n/a
Science From Scientists Inc$6,00010%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$6,0001n/a
Badlands Natural History Assoc$6,00011%
Hawaii Pacific University$5,97110%
Borderview Bell Ranch LP$5,8721n/a
Institute of Food Technologists$5,34410%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

World Wildlife Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 163 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $3,531,522 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation: $3,076,305 over 3y, 29% of budgetWorld Resources Institute: $1,709,684 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $1,638,626 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $1,479,206 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc: $1,327,996 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNonprofit Enterprise and Self- Sustainability Team Inc (Nesst): $1,270,425 over 5y, 10% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $930,755 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetClimate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation: $767,393 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetRewild: $704,747 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCornell University: $605,154 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Strategy Fund: $568,001 over 3y, 14% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $563,917 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThunder Valley Community Development Cor: $545,656 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $545,090 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCdp North America Inc: $528,420 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCeres Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWinnett Aces Inc: $485,394 over 4y, 29% of budgetPacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment & Security: $438,413 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAquarium of the Pacific Corporation: $430,533 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $393,013 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Snow Leopard Trust: $381,466 over 3y, 11% of budgetUnited Nations Foundation Inc: $360,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Aquaculture Innovation Center: $354,673 over 5y, 15% of budgetRanchers Stewardship Alliance: $350,215 over 5y, 21% of budgetIsland Institute: $321,742 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPheasants Forever Inc: $303,223 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $293,853 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation: $290,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGlobal Cold Chain Foundation: $286,421 over 2y, 10% of budgetGlobal Water Challenge: $264,276 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBuffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance: $252,206 over 2y, 21% of budgetWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: $245,725 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $242,474 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWestern Sustainability Exchange: $217,640 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $212,778 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMultiplier: $205,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWomen in Ranching Inc: $204,731 over 2y, 11% of budgetSouth Dakota State University Foundation: $198,814 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRio Grande Return: $197,055 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetRare: $192,856 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAaniiih Nakoda College (Fort Belknap College): $191,019 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $190,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $188,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaliasili Initiatives Inc: $186,533 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetRainforest Alliance Inc: $184,607 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndigenous Peoples Council for Marine Mammals: $182,166 over 3y, 33% of budgetUniversity of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc: $180,536 over 2y, 0.2% of budget

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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 163.

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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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC48.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 World Wildlife Fund Inc

How much does World Wildlife Fund Inc give?
World Wildlife Fund Inc reported 66 itemized grants totaling $8,157,225, out of $96,472,420 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does World Wildlife Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Animals (12%), Education (3%).
Who are World Wildlife Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wildlife Conservation Society ($3.5M), Center for Heirs' Property Preservation ($3.1M), Cooperative for Assis & Relief(CARE) Inc ($1.9M).
Does World Wildlife Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as World Wildlife Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Climateworks Foundation.
Where is World Wildlife Fund Inc based?
World Wildlife Fund Inc is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 265 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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