Virginia · Nonprofit
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (Virginia) receives grants from 4019 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,950,647,252 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($169,620,000). 2601 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE NATURE CONSERVANCY 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
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY 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 programTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY 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
$457M
Recipients
1,772
Contributions on record
$2.0B
Donors on record
4,016
Payments out are 0.23x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
- Russell Sage Foundationshared funders
- Joseph and Marie Field Family Environmental Foundationportfolio match
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
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 11% · 2018 9% · 2019 12% · 2020 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% · 2024 11% · 2025 13%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1002 funders to 1756 funders, grant income rose $102M → $316M.
302 of 4019 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $19M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest S L Gimbel Foundation); $250 from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Bechtolt Private Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NATURE CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NATURE CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 4019 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
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 51 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $724M arriving through sponsors registered in 48 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 4019 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Russell Sage Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Joseph and Marie Field Family Environmental Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- The Maue Kay Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bertram Teich Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rainforest Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Daffy's Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Sunshine Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 54 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.
Government funding THE NATURE CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $942.0M on record — $899.8M federal, $42.2M state.
- Department of Agriculture$448.5M
- Department of Commerce$199.1M
- Department of the Interior$129.9M
- Agency for International Development$68.7M
- Department of Defense$39.5M
- Environmental Protection Agency$5.3M
- NJ$19.8M
- VT$6.4M
- OR$5.2M
- MD$3.7M
- FL$2.8M
- MA$2.1M
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 57 states
Part of a family of 55 related entities
- Cumberland Forest Gp LLC · disregarded
- Fortin Chacabuco LLC · disregarded
- Resilient Oceans LLC · disregarded
- Tnc UK Foundation Limited · disregarded
- Woodland Development Company LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (Virginia) receives grants from 4019 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,950,647,252 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($169,620,000). 2601 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE NATURE CONSERVANCY 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 4019 organizations giving $1,950,647,252 in grants to THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, 2601 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATURE CONSERVANCY?
- ANNE RAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $169,620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATURE CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 4019funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing