New Mexico · Nonprofit
WILDEARTH GUARDIANS
WILDEARTH GUARDIANS (New Mexico) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,643,118 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($1,801,000). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Wildearth Guardians does
Mission
Wildearth Guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wildlife: Wildearth Guardians envisions a future where imperiled species across the american west not only survive but thrive, supported by strong legal protections, interconnected habitats, and a cultural shift that values biodiversity as essential to our collective well-being. In 2024 we had major wins for species large (wolves and grizzlies) and small (pupfish and pollinators). In montana, we worked with partners to cut the wolf trapping season in half, saving the lives of dozens of wolves and grizzly bears (who are also attracted to traps and snares set for wolves). We advanced endangered species protections for the silverspot butterfly and pecos pupfish while using the esa to beat back lethal management proposals for prairie dogs in wyoming and the harmful impacts of phosphate mining for sage grouse in idaho.
$4,138,462 spent100% of program spendingWild places: our wild places program protects and connects our national forests, wild watersheds and streams, and grasslands, while simultaneously countering the legacy of logging, road building, livestock grazing, and motorized vehicle use on our public lands. In march 2024, a judge ruled in favor of guardians and our allies to keep large tree protections in place across millions of acres in eastern oregon and eastern washington. In new mexico, we sued the forest service over livestock grazing impacts to the valles caldera national preserve. In response, the agency agreed to restore key fencing and round up trespass cattle to better protect habitat for the jemez mountain salamander, new mexico jumping mouse, and other threatened species.
Climate & health: wild earth guardians envisions a future free of fossil fuel extraction on public lands, replaced by just, sustainable community economies. Our commitment goes beyond ending extraction; it includes empowering impacted communities, safeguarding ecosystems, and ensuring polluting industries bear full responsibility for their harm. After years of advocacy and litigation by guardians and our partners, the bureau of land management (blm) finalized a rule to end federal coal leasing in the powder river basin of montana and wyoming once current coal leases are exhausted. After years of settlement negotiations, guardians reached an agreement with two federal agencies and a large irrigation district that will help keep the rio grande flowing through new mexico. In colorado, in response to a petition from guardians and our partners, the u.s.environmental protection agency rejected the air permit for the largest coal mine in the state.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,138,462.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $3.0M (−30%).
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 11% · 2018 18% · 2019 10% · 2020 2% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WILDEARTH GUARDIANS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $772k → $2.0M.
30 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 WILDEARTH GUARDIANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
WILDEARTH GUARDIANS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
47% 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 WILDEARTH GUARDIANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 20% · 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of WILDEARTH GUARDIANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
WILDEARTH GUARDIANS draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
WILDEARTH GUARDIANS's funding base is broadening — from 42 funders to 58 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 612 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WILDEARTH GUARDIANS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $99k on record.
- Department of the Interior$99k
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 WILDEARTH GUARDIANS
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILDEARTH GUARDIANS: 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 WILDEARTH GUARDIANS?
- WILDEARTH GUARDIANS (New Mexico) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,643,118 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($1,801,000). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDEARTH GUARDIANS have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $15,643,118 in grants to WILDEARTH GUARDIANS, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDEARTH GUARDIANS?
- CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,801,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDEARTH GUARDIANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 125 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing