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NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF

NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF (Wisconsin) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,385,854 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($784,849). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% 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.

Revenue FY2024
$4.8M
Funders on record
64
Grants received
$5.4M
Net assets
$15M
35/64 repeat funders

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

64

Payments out are 0.96x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($7.0M)2018 Revenue 96 ($2.3M) Expenses 84 ($1.2M) Net assets 104 ($7.3M)2019 Revenue 113 ($2.6M) Expenses 113 ($1.7M) Net assets 133 ($9.3M)2020 Revenue 109 ($2.5M) Expenses 113 ($1.7M) Net assets 164 ($12M)2021 Revenue 147 ($3.4M) Expenses 142 ($2.1M) Net assets 191 ($13M)2022 Revenue 123 ($2.9M) Expenses 152 ($2.2M) Net assets 169 ($12M)2023 Revenue 154 ($3.6M) Expenses 182 ($2.7M) Net assets 198 ($14M)2024 Revenue 204 ($4.8M) Expenses 181 ($2.7M) Net assets 218 ($15M)
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Revenue (204)Expenses (181)Net assets (218)

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 $18M to $21M (+17%).

$13M
$14M
$16M
$19M
$20M
$18M
$21M
$23M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

$867k
’17
$1.0M
’18
$988k
’19
$868k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$643k
’22
$929k
’23
$2.1M
’24
4.3
months of
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

David Clutter

Executive director

Board chair

Dave Adam

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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No longer listed·0221022
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $689k → $930k.

21 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 64 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

67% 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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 13 states.

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
CT
CO
NE
VA
DC
FL

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

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’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 6%Fundraising 15%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF?
NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF (Wisconsin) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,385,854 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($784,849). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% 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 64 organizations giving $5,385,854 in grants to NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF, 35 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 64 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