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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.

$96M
Granted FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$42MAnimals$6.6MEducation$1.4MFood & Nutrition$812kScience & Tech$701kCommunity Improvement$692kCrime & Legal$650kInternational$545kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

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
$47,848
Median grant
21
States reached
$777M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%RURAL DYNAMICS INC: $11k → 14%WOMEN IN RANCHING: $155k → 15%WOMEN IN RANCHING INC: $50k → 15%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
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IL
WI
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OR
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OH
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VA
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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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$24M · 27% · 29 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION

East Asia and the Pacific$19M · 22% · 21 grants · 10 people

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION

South America$19M · 22% · 105 grants · 29 people

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION

Sub-Saharan Africa$12M · 14% · 54 grants · 31 people

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION

South Asia$9.2M · 10% · 21 grants · 50 people

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION

North America (Canada and Mexico)$2.7M · 3% · 32 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: CONSERVATION

Central America and the Caribbean$1.3M · 2% · 25 grants · 8 people

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 94 repeat orgs$9.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
132

Total granted

$36M
$8.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+25%

Still filing today

76%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    6× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +59%
  • CF
    Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +103% · 29% of their budget
  • WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $931k · revenue +14%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2018 · $593k
  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
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)

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
7
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
8
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
9
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
Intertribal Agriculture Council

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.

12
Applied Ecological Institute Inc

Aei is a non profit ideation collaborative studio creating globalscale, ecological based solutions for a climate positive future.

Environment

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Mentoring ProgramsLocal History MuseumsSchool District FoundationsChristian Youth CampsLocal Food System Organizat…Community College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%2/263
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,302

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
184/188
Grantees still filing
125/188
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,180,605 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCooperative for Assis & Relief(CARE) Inc — $1,915,242 · OtherCooperative for Assis & Relief(CARE) IncROSEBUD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,324,619 · OtherROSEBUD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONNONPROFIT ENTERPRISE AND SELF- SUSTAINABILITY TEAM INC (NESST) — $1,270,425 · OtherNONPROFIT ENTERPRISE AND SELF- SUSTAINABILI…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $685,000 · Other+97 more — $11,702,364 · Other+97 moreWINDWARD FUND — $1,880,850 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,479,206 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONA…CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $1,327,996 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND EN…THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $930,755 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A N…CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION — $767,393 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA …CONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND — $568,001 · EnvironmentCDP NORTH AMERICA INC — $528,420 · EnvironmentCERES INC — $500,000 · Environment+35 more — $3,966,656 · Environment+35 moreWildlife Conservation Society — $3,531,522 · AnimalsWildlife Conserv…REWILD — $704,747 · AnimalsREWILDAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $430,533 · AnimalsAQUARIUM OF THE …American Bird Conservancy — $393,013 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $381,466 · AnimalsSUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $290,000 · Animals+16 more — $1,996,855 · Animals+16 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,764,072 · EducationTHE BOARD…Cornell University — $605,154 · EducationCornell U…Island Institute — $321,742 · EducationIsland In…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $293,853 · EducationDUKE UNIV…SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $198,814 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $180,536 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $150,000 · Education+17 more — $914,317 · Education+17 moreCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation — $3,076,305 · Crime & LegalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $1,709,684 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $545,090 · InternationalPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY — $438,413 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $360,000 · InternationalBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $1,638,626 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $563,917 · Science & TechGLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION — $286,421 · Science & TechSYMBIOSEAS — $99,000 · Science & Tech
Other$20,078,255Environment$11,949,277Animals$7,728,136Education$4,428,488Crime & Legal$3,076,305International$3,053,187Science & Tech$2,587,964

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $3,531,522 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,180,605 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation — $3,076,305 over 3y, 29% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $1,880,850 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,764,072 over 8y, 0.0% 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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $685,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $270,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $217,565 over 3y, 0.2% 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 budget
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.

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.

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

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 35%
  • Inter-Tribal Council Inc100% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution63% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 265 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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