California · Nonprofit
For The Wild Collective
For The Wild Collective (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $69k
What For The Wild Collective does
Mission
For The Wild Collective's mission is to preserve and strengthen the integrity of Earth's natural communities. It is dedicated to protecting land, promoting co-liberation, and sharing intersectional stories challenging human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. It fosters deep connections between people and the more-than-human world through land-based restoration, social reconciliation, storytelling, responsibility, and education to build resilient communities and address critical issues by nurturing human-Earth interconnectedness.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
For The Wild Collective sponsored the For The Wild Podcast, a forum where critical ideas of our time are discussed and parlayed into action for the regeneration of natural communities. In 2023, the podcast aired over 50 unique episodes, garnering more than 1.76 million downloads and ranking within the top 1% of most shared and followed podcasts globally. With the support of a $25,000 production grant from the organization, the podcast expanded its team by hiring two contracted employees to assist with audio production and special projects. The program also launched a new monthly digital zine series, written and designed in-house, to inspire listeners to delve deeper into the themes explored throughout the conversations. Additionally, the organization introduced its first Slow Study through the podcast, an educational digital course that attracted over 690 students worldwide.
$5,330 spent100% of program spendingFor The Wild Collective sponsored the development of "The Present Underworld: Rooted Wayfinding in Fragmentary Times," a 10-year anthology by For The Wild, with a $25,000 grant. The organization curated and contracted 20 guest authors to contribute to the book's content, developed the print book narrative, and contracted an illustrator to enhance the visual elements of the anthology.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,330.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $43k to $332k (+676%).
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.
100% of For The Wild Collective’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $25k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 For The Wild Collective’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
For The Wild Collective leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 For The Wild Collective.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
97% of For The Wild Collective'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
For The Wild Collective runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,119 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like For The Wild Collective
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for For The Wild Collective: 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 For The Wild Collective?
- For The Wild Collective (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does For The Wild Collective have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $113,000 in grants to For The Wild Collective, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of For The Wild Collective?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like For The Wild Collective find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing