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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.

$4.5M
Revenue FY2024
61
Funders on record
$14M
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
42/61 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%

Against its field

Wild Earth Society Incorporated holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve8.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

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.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($728k)2018 Revenue 121 ($1.7M) Expenses 128 ($1.4M) Net assets 133 ($968k)2019 Revenue 154 ($2.1M) Expenses 174 ($1.9M) Net assets 157 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 172 ($2.4M) Expenses 169 ($1.9M) Net assets 217 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 212 ($2.9M) Expenses 216 ($2.4M) Net assets 287 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 227 ($3.1M) Expenses 243 ($2.7M) Net assets 344 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 219 ($3.0M) Expenses 285 ($3.2M) Net assets 321 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 332 ($4.5M) Expenses 324 ($3.6M) Net assets 451 ($3.3M)
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Revenue (332)Expenses (324)Net assets (451)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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$260k
17
$242k
18
$172k
19
$481k
20
$508k
21
$414k
22
$165k
23
$941k
24
8.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

28%
largest funder
48%
top three
~8
effective funders

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.

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

Wild Earth Society Incorporated draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 19 states in all.

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
TX

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

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Utah out of state home

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.

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 61 funders put you under-funded 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 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.

Federal$2.0M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 20%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
FL

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.

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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 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