Wisconsin · Nonprofit
NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF
NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF (Wisconsin) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,311,094 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($784,849). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programNATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$5.2M
Recipients
41
Contributions on record
$5.4M
Donors on record
62
Payments out are 0.97x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Incshared funders
- Thomas a Fox Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Covington Charitable Trportfolio match
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.
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 5% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 14% · 2021 29% · 2022 14% · 2023 22% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $689k → $930k.
20 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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.
Where its funders are
68% of NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
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 60 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Incshared fundersWI · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- Thomas a Fox Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Covington Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bobolink Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- ANTONIA FOUNDATION INCco F MICHAEL ARNOWportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam Shine Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ja Woollam Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Madison Community Foundationshared funderslocalWI · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 347 organizations near you
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 115 organizations that share your funders
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF: 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.
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 NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF?
- NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF (Wisconsin) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,311,094 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($784,849). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $5,311,094 in grants to NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF?
- Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $784,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 60funders 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