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CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC

CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,069 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($207,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$339k
Net assets
$476k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation Inc does

Mission

To conserve tropical biodiversity through habitat protection, environmental education, and sustainable livelihoods. Public education, habitat conservation and research in the terrestrial and marine systems in the tropics.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Providing educational programs in tropical ecology for multi-national students, technical assistance in conservation and tropical ecology research

    $666,280 spent
    82% of program spending
  2. Implementing conservation of threatened tropical dry forest on the coast of ecuador and cloud forests through protection of private forests and enactment of local ordinances encouraging habitat conservation. Supported establishment and growth of bio-entrepreneuroship activities that contribute to community livelihoods.

    $147,180 spentof which $147,180 as grants
    18% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $813,460.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($677k) Expenses 100 ($632k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2018 Revenue 73 ($494k) Expenses 72 ($452k) Net assets 2844 ($44k)2019 Revenue 57 ($383k) Expenses 65 ($411k) Net assets 1104 ($17k)2020 Revenue 95 ($643k) Expenses 78 ($493k) Net assets 10863 ($167k)2021 Revenue 142 ($963k) Expenses 73 ($458k) Net assets 43601 ($671k)2022 Revenue 63 ($423k) Expenses 140 ($887k) Net assets 12699 ($196k)2023 Revenue 144 ($977k) Expenses 128 ($808k) Net assets 23646 ($364k)2024 Revenue 96 ($649k) Expenses 118 ($743k) Net assets 16815 ($259k)2025 Revenue 167 ($1.1M) Expenses 144 ($909k) Net assets 30912 ($476k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (144)Net assets (30912)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $192k to $696k (+263%).

$176k
$82k
$484k
$192k
$696k
$691k
$715k
$638k
$483k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 10% · 2021 14% · 2022 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

18% of CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 634 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
’17
$42k
’18
−$27k
’19
$150k
’20
$504k
’21
−$464k
’22
$169k
’23
−$93k
’24
$220k
’25
6.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed666534556
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+1+0+1
No longer listed·00120000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $218k.

6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC.

61%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

96% of CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 390 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $242k on record.

Federal$242k
grants $242kcontracts $0
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21
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$242k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC?
CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,069 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($207,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $339,069 in grants to CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC?
NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $207,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CEIBA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL CONSERVATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing