Wyoming · Nonprofit
JACKSON WILD
JACKSON WILD (Wyoming) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,435 to it, the largest being JESSE W COUCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $362k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Jackson Wild does
Mission
Jackson Wild is a catalyst for our industry recognizing excellence in storytelling, celebrating innovative ideas and creating connections for deeper impact. Our global community of passionate storytellers, thought leaders and change agents elevate diverse stories that illuminate our collective and urgent responsibility to restore the planet.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Jackson Wild summit is an extraordinary convening where collaboration and innovation thrive, ideas are launched, and strategic partnerships are forged. Cross-discipline conversations on the critical issues facing our planet set the stage for strategic partnerships that happen nowhere else, as participants work together to address critical conservation and environmental challenges. In 2025, the summit gathered 650 nature, science and conservation media industry professionals from over 40 countries motivated by deep reverence and urgent concern for the natural world for four days of keynote sessions, workshops, gear demos and film screenings. The summit culminated in the announcement of the winners of the annual Jackson Wild media awards, recognizing 30 films selected by a jury from over 450 entries representing 70+ countries into the annual competition.
The Jackson Wild media lab is an immersive, cross-disciplinary science filmmaking workshop funded by hhmi tangled bank studios that brings scientists and media creators together to learn from leaders in the profession and work together to develop effective tools to communicate about science, nature and conservation with diverse audiences across the worlds evolving media platforms. For ten days, media lab fellows work side-by-side with instructors and industry-leading mentors to gain intensive hands-on film making experience, learn the art of science communication, get a crash course using professional-grade tools and equipment provided by sony, and expand professional networks with peers and industry professionals. In 2025, nine global fellows were selected to participate in this rigorous workshop, with 3 group film projects premiering live to international commissioners and streamed audiences.
The world wildlife day film showcase is part of worldwide public engagement efforts to empower action and inspire a sense of personal responsibility and stewardship for wild species conservation and in creating an equitable and sustainable future. In partnership with the united nations and cites, world wildlife day promotes free educational screenings available to embassies, universities, schools, libraries, ngos and other partner film festivals from around the world.
The Jackson Wild collective is the year-round virtual home for over 2,000 members of the Jackson Wild global storytelling community to connect, collaborate and inspire change, supported by the national geographic society and hhmi tangled bank studios. Through ongoing mentorship, an international production database, an up-to-date jobs board and career- building programs, the collective provides resources for storytellers at all levels to elevate their impact and expand their opportunities. In 2025, the collective hosted virtual and in-person events for collective members to provide opportunities for networking and capacity building.
$872,448 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $872,448.
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 2024 to 2025, from $500k to $268k (−46%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 8% · 2024 4% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of JACKSON WILD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $76k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 JACKSON WILD’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
JACKSON WILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 JACKSON WILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 61% · 2019 54% · 2020 61% · 2021 58% · 2022 59% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of JACKSON WILD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
JACKSON WILD draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
JACKSON WILD's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JACKSON WILD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $349k on record.
- National Science Foundation$249k
- Department of State$100k
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 JACKSON WILD
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 Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JACKSON WILD: 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 JACKSON WILD?
- JACKSON WILD (Wyoming) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,435 to it, the largest being JESSE W COUCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JACKSON WILD have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $362,435 in grants to JACKSON WILD, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JACKSON WILD?
- JESSE W COUCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JACKSON WILD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. 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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing