How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Wisconsin?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in Wisconsin, currently Kohler Foundation Inc, Conserve School Trust Ea0296803, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Wisconsin from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in Wisconsin?

Kohler Foundation Inc gives the most to environment organizations in Wisconsin, $54M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in Wisconsin?

$395M reached 466 environment organizations in Wisconsin, from 1,289 funders. 48% came from funders also based in Wisconsin.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Wisconsin · Environment

Who funds environment in Wisconsin

$395M reached 466 environment organizations in Wisconsin, from 1,289 funders, with no single one dominating.

$395M

granted

466

organizations

48%

from in-state

The short version

1,289 funders gave $395M to 466 environment organizations in Wisconsin across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
48% of that came from funders also based in Wisconsin; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in Wisconsin is Kohler Foundation Inc, at $54M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Kohler Trust for Clean Water, at $54M.

Largest funders of environment in Wisconsin

The funders giving the most to environment organizations in Wisconsin, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Kohler Foundation Inc$54M 2Conserve School Trust Ea0296803$19M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$19M 4Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc$18M 5The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust$12M 6Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc$11M 7United States Energy Foundation$10M 8Windward Fund$10M 9National Fish and Wildlife Foundation$8M 10National Rural Water Association$6M

Environment organizations in Wisconsin that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

456 other environment organizations$220M

Kohler Trust for Clean Water$54M Savanna Institute$21M Conserve School Corporation$20M

How to find environment funders in Wisconsin

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Start with the funders already active in Wisconsin
The funders giving the most to environment in Wisconsin are Kohler Foundation Inc, Conserve School Trust Ea0296803, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing environment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
52% of environment money in Wisconsin comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Wisconsin.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Wisconsin?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in Wisconsin, currently Kohler Foundation Inc, Conserve School Trust Ea0296803, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Wisconsin from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in Wisconsin?: Kohler Foundation Inc gives the most to environment organizations in Wisconsin, $54M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in Wisconsin?: $395M reached 466 environment organizations in Wisconsin, from 1,289 funders. 48% came from funders also based in Wisconsin.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.