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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 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,120,505 to it, the largest being The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc ($11,904,457). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.1M
Revenue FY2025
27
Funders on record
$20M
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
11/27 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US has grown faster than half of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−129% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($811k) Expenses 100 ($966k) Net assets 100 ($268k)2018 Revenue 126 ($1.0M) Expenses 58 ($560k) Net assets 273 ($732k)2019 Revenue 97 ($788k) Expenses 65 ($625k) Net assets 334 ($895k)2020 Revenue 95 ($771k) Expenses 139 ($1.3M) Net assets 122 ($327k)2021 Revenue 212 ($1.7M) Expenses 71 ($684k) Net assets 509 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 226 ($1.8M) Expenses 256 ($2.5M) Net assets 269 ($720k)2023 Revenue 993 ($8.0M) Expenses 228 ($2.2M) Net assets 2452 ($6.6M)2024 Revenue 706 ($5.7M) Expenses 642 ($6.2M) Net assets 2272 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 379 ($3.1M) Expenses 729 ($7.0M) Net assets 788 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (379)Expenses (729)Net assets (788)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$156k
17
$464k
18
$163k
19
$568k
20
$1.0M
21
$641k
22
$5.8M
23
$482k
24
$4.0M
25
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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 27 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 86%; 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.

59%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

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; 41% 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

INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
SD
OH
PA
CA
VA
HI
GA

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 27 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.

Organizations like INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US: 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 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 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,120,505 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 27 organizations giving $20,120,505 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.

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 27funders 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