Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US
INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,170,505 to it, the largest being The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc ($11,904,457). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Int'L Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - US does
Mission
Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conservation program - identifies and converses key sites and ecosystems for the conservation of biological diversity.
$6,658,637 spentof which $6,658,637 as grants$3,061,729 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,658,637.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $747k to $6.6M (+779%).
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 11% · 2018 16% · 2019 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Tracy Farrell
CEO & secretary
Board chair
Paul Salaman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $217k → $8.5M.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US’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
INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 40% · 2019 80% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
27% of INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Iucn · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US?
- INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,170,505 to it, the largest being The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc ($11,904,457). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $20,170,505 in grants to INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US?
- The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $11,904,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 28 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