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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.

$309M
Revenue FY2025
387
Funders on record
$589M
Grants received
$424M
Net assets
231/387 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%

Against its field

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($139M) Expenses 100 ($150M) Net assets 100 ($322M)2018 Revenue 105 ($145M) Expenses 103 ($155M) Net assets 97 ($311M)2019 Revenue 101 ($140M) Expenses 99 ($148M) Net assets 96 ($309M)2020 Revenue 115 ($159M) Expenses 100 ($150M) Net assets 98 ($316M)2021 Revenue 136 ($188M) Expenses 107 ($160M) Net assets 118 ($381M)2022 Revenue 210 ($291M) Expenses 142 ($212M) Net assets 134 ($433M)2023 Revenue 170 ($235M) Expenses 165 ($247M) Net assets 134 ($433M)2024 Revenue 196 ($271M) Expenses 199 ($298M) Net assets 129 ($417M)2025 Revenue 223 ($309M) Expenses 211 ($317M) Net assets 132 ($424M)
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Revenue (223)Expenses (211)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 22 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11M
17
$10.0M
18
$7.5M
19
$9.2M
20
$28M
21
$78M
22
$12M
23
$27M
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$8.0M
25
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reserve
02Who funds it

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.

15%
largest funder
33%
top three
~17
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Federal$48.7M
grants $48.7Mcontracts $20k
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Top agencies
  • 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

32
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

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.

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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