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WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION

WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,929 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($418,914). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
29
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$9.7M
Net assets
17/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($798k) Expenses 100 ($365k) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2018 Revenue 46 ($364k) Expenses 80 ($293k) Net assets 101 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 86 ($690k) Expenses 165 ($601k) Net assets 103 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 138 ($1.1M) Expenses 135 ($494k) Net assets 114 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 134 ($1.1M) Expenses 151 ($551k) Net assets 127 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 179 ($1.4M) Expenses 153 ($560k) Net assets 137 ($7.6M)2023 Revenue 215 ($1.7M) Expenses 214 ($779k) Net assets 157 ($8.7M)2024 Revenue 141 ($1.1M) Expenses 230 ($840k) Net assets 165 ($9.2M)2025 Revenue 138 ($1.1M) Expenses 187 ($683k) Net assets 175 ($9.7M)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (187)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

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
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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 13% · 2020 10% · 2021 16% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 13% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$433k
17
$71k
18
$90k
19
$605k
20
$519k
21
$870k
22
$936k
23
$283k
24
$417k
25
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $140k → $136k.

15 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)75% 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 WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION’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

WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION.

31%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 51% · 2019 40% · 2020 37% · 2021 30% · 2022 43% · 2023 37%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.

How long its funders stay

46% of WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

75% of WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION'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 $330k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IL
IN
OH

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

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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

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 29 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68k on record.

Federal$68k
grants $68kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$68k

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.

Organizations like WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 34%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION: 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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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 WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION?
WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,929 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($418,914). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,339,929 in grants to WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $418,914 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 29funders 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