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CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 387 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,221,529 to it, the largest being The Rob Walton Foundation ($88,985,760). 231 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13 environment nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Marisla Foundationshared funders
- The Brunckhorst Foundationportfolio match
- Bertram Teich Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 19% · 2019 26% · 2020 26% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 27% · 2024 27% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 94 funders to 166 funders, grant income rose $38M → $111M.
55 of 387 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 387 funders by total. 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
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
37% 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 CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 43% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 22% · 2022 30% · 2023 15% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 38 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 387 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Marisla Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- The Brunckhorst Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bertram Teich Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lippincott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kurz Charitable Trust & Foundation 10018300portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philip Lee & Elizabeth B Ellis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann & Gordon Getty Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 86 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 97 organizations that share your funders
- Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fundshared fundersCA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- The Bloomberg Family Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.7M on record.
- Agency for International Development$25.7M
- Department of Commerce$11.2M
- Department of State$8.5M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.3M
- National Science Foundation$400k
- Department of Agriculture$324k
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.
Organizations like CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Conservation International Ventures LLC · disregarded
- Ci African Conservancies Fund LLC · disregarded
- Conservation International Mexico · disregarded
- Stg Stichting Conservation International · disregarded
- Conservation International Europe · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 387 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,221,529 to it, the largest being The Rob Walton Foundation ($88,985,760). 231 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 387 organizations giving $589,221,529 in grants to CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, 231 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- The Rob Walton Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $88,985,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 387funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing