Utah · Nonprofit
Wild Earth Society Incorporated
Wild Earth Society Incorporated (Utah) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,493,618 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,000,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Wild Earth Society Incorporated holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- The Marisla Foundationshared funders
- Maki Foundationportfolio match
- Boyer Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 5% · 2023 13% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Wild Earth Society Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $564k → $2.0M.
13 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Wild Earth Society Incorporated’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Wild Earth Society Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 Wild Earth Society Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 48% · 2019 32% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 21% · 2023 28% — 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
60% of Wild Earth Society Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
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
Wild Earth Society Incorporated draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
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 61 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Marisla Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Maki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boyer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rangeland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trees Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Yellowstone Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Page Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brodsky Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climateworks Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
- Environmental Defense Fund Incorporatedshared fundersNY · backs 89 organizations that share your funders
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 82 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 Wild Earth Society Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Energy$1.7M
- Department of the Interior$324k
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 Wild Earth Society Incorporated
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wild Earth Society Incorporated: 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 Wild Earth Society Incorporated?
- Wild Earth Society Incorporated (Utah) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,493,618 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,000,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wild Earth Society Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $14,493,618 in grants to Wild Earth Society Incorporated, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wild Earth Society Incorporated?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wild Earth Society Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 61funders 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