Illinois · Nonprofit
The Wilder World Trust NFP
The Wilder World Trust NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,729 to it, the largest being OPENLANDS ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $323k
What The Wilder World Trust NFP does
Mission
We exist to improve the health of communities by restoring and preserving nature, promoting environmental stewardship, and providing access to outdoor education and recreation to all people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Invasive plant and tree removal, remediation, and restoration work. Grant funding was also used to seed native plants, and install trees forbs, and grass plugs. Walking and biking trails were also enhanced.
$297,600 spentof which $297,600 as grants69% of program spendingGrant funds were used to complete the installation of a Nature Education Pavilion and Nature Education Center to provide outdoor and classroom learning experiences to school, community, and volunteer groups from the region.
$120,000 spentof which $120,000 as grants28% of program spendingHired an outside aquatic restoration company to provide monthly aquacide application services to combat the spread of invasive aquatic plants in one of our lakes.
$13,387 spentof which $13,387 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $430,987.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $102k to $277k (+172%).
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: 2023 1% · 2024 40% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Wilder World Trust NFP’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. 0 of the last 4 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9 → $1k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Wilder World Trust NFP’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 Wilder World Trust NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 Wilder World Trust NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of The Wilder World Trust NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Wilder World Trust NFP has grown faster than three-quarters 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 Wilder World Trust NFP
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Wilder World Trust NFP: 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 Wilder World Trust NFP?
- The Wilder World Trust NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,729 to it, the largest being OPENLANDS ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Wilder World Trust NFP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $23,729 in grants to The Wilder World Trust NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Wilder World Trust NFP?
- OPENLANDS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Wilder World Trust NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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