Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC
THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,000 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $491k
- Net assets
- $131k
What The Program for Preserving the Natural World Inc does
Mission
To promote greater understanding of how human beings are ultimately and totally dependent on the natural world, so that policy-makers and the public recognize that we have no other choice but to preserve it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Climate change - working to develop a global medical initiative to address climate change.
$33,406 spent33% of program spendingToxic chemicals and food production - working to expose the signigicant environmental and public health hazards of new class of pesiticides call neonicotinoids, that are widely used in growing genetically-modified foods, and are strongly linked to bee colony collapse disorder and to threats to other organisms.
$33,406 spent33% of program spendingProtecting biodiversity and ecosystem services - bringing the best of the best science to the debate about the practice of clear-cutting patches of watershed forest in massachusetts and other states.
$33,405 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $100,217.
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 2020 to 2021, from $65k to $118k (+81%).
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.
100% of THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $28k → $35k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC’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
THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 72% · 2019 41% · 2020 47% · 2021 34% · 2022 57% · 2023 43% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k 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
THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC: 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 THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC?
- THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,000 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $491,000 in grants to THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing