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Wilburforce Foundation

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$53.7M
in grants paid
663
grants
191
recipients
2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

  • $800,000

    Together Rising As An Environmental Community · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $264,000

    Makeway Foundation · 2024

    Environmental - wilburforce canadian conservation fund

  • $250,000

    Yellowstone To Yukon Conservation Initiative · Bozeman, MT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $250,000

    Heart of the Rockies Initiative · Missoula, MT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $250,000

    Grand Canyon Trust · Flagstaff, AZ · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $250,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - alaska venture fund

  • $250,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - salmonstate: transboundary conservation

  • $240,000

    Wildlands Network · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024

    Environmental - southwest crescent program 2024

  • $225,000

    The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - community-based, landscape-scale conservation in the high divide and crown of the continent 2024

  • $210,000

    The Governors of the University of Alberta · 2024

    Environmental - beacons project support 2024

  • $200,000

    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society · 2024

    Environmental - bc conservation opportunities

  • $200,000

    Sky Island Alliance · Tucson, AZ · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $200,000

    Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation · 2024

    Environmental - great bear sea project finance for permanence

  • $190,000

    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society · 2024

    Environmental - land use planning in the yukon 2024

  • $190,000

    The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - protecting americas arctic

  • $180,000

    Ecoadapt · Bainbridge Island, WA · 2024

    Environmental - general operations and climate adaptation implementation support

  • $180,000

    Headwaters Economics · Bozeman, MT · 2024

    Environmental - economics support for conservation

  • $175,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - salmonstate: tongass conservation

  • $175,000

    Wildsight · 2024

    Environmental - rocky and columbia mountains corridor 2024

  • $175,000

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Environmental - transboundary research scientist

  • $175,000

    National Parks Conservation Association · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - transboundary crown conservation initiative 2024

  • $175,000

    University of Montana Foundation · Missoula, MT · 2024

    Environmental - transboundary rivers science and policy project 2024

  • $175,000

    Compass Science Communication · Clackamas, OR · 2024

    Environmental - general support

  • $160,000

    Outdoor Alliance · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - general support

  • $160,000

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Environmental - habitat connectivity in a changing climate, support for blueprint for a resilient cascadia

  • $155,000

    Wild Salmon Center · Portland, OR · 2024

    Environmental - skeenawild conservation trust: skeena watershed conservation

  • $150,000

    Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources · Madison, WI · 2024

    Environmental - crown of the continent institute

  • $150,000

    Western Environmental Law Center · Eugene, OR · 2024

    Environmental - wilburforce strategic priorities for the nwsw region 2024

  • $150,000

    Defenders of Wildlife · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - coexistence with wildlife and mexican wolf recovery 2024

  • $150,000

    Makeway Charitable Society · 2024

    Environmental - rainforest solutions implementation project and kwiakah first nation

  • $150,000

    Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska · Juneau, AK · 2024

    Environmental - seacoast indigenous guardians network

  • $150,000

    Alaska Wilderness League · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - arctic defense campaign

  • $150,000

    University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024

    Environmental - law and policy projects

  • $140,000

    Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Environmental - promoting structural changes in government decisionmaking to safeguard our democracy, public health, and the environment

  • $140,000

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Environmental - a climate vulnerability assessment framework for data-poor species

  • $140,000

    Trout Unlimited · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Environmental - tongass conservation

  • $135,000

    Simon Fraser University · 2024

    Environmental - taku to transboundary: collaborative science to advance watershed resilience

  • $135,000

    Sitka Conservation Society · Sitka, AK · 2024

    Environmental - general support

  • $130,000

    Resource Media · Beaverton, OR · 2024

    Environmental - multicultural communications capacity building

  • $130,000

    Boise State University · Boise, ID · 2024

    Environmental - social and ecological connectivity

  • $130,000

    Conservation Science Partners · Truckee, CA · 2024

    Environmental - developing innovative science capacity for conservation 2024/25

  • $125,000

    Friends of Nevada Wilderness · Reno, NV · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $125,000

    The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - blm public lands rule: defense and implementation

  • $125,000

    Sageland Collaborative · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $120,000

    Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center · Ashland, OR · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $120,000

    Sustainability Network · 2024

    Environmental - vision2030: building canadian engo capacity for a greener future

  • $120,000

    Raincoast Conservation Foundation · 2024

    Environmental - protecting wildlife in the great bear rainforest

  • $120,000

    Spruce Root · Juneau, AK · 2024

    Environmental - tongass planning and strategic communications

  • $120,000

    Conservation Science Partners · Truckee, CA · 2024

    Environmental - analytics lab initiative 2024

  • $120,000

    Conservation Lands Foundation · Durango, CO · 2024

    Environmental - growing an inclusive and equitable community-based conservation movement in the southwest crescent 2024

  • $120,000

    Outdoor Alliance · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - general support

  • $115,000

    Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project · Las Cruces, NM · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $110,000

    Greater Yellowstone Coalition · Bozeman, MT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $110,000

    West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation · 2024

    Environmental - legal support and learning network for indigenous protected and conserved areas

  • $110,000

    Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2024

    Environmental - protecting idaho's y2y region 2024

  • $105,000

    Yellowstone To Yukon Conservation Initiative · Bozeman, MT · 2024

    Environmental - science capacity at y2y

  • $105,000

    The Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association · 2024

    Environmental - skeena watershed conservation coalition: ipca support for the skeena watershed

  • $100,000

    Woodland Park Zoo · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Environmental - cascades carnivore monitoring program (ccmp)

  • $100,000

    Wildearth Guardians · Santa Fe, NM · 2024

    Environmental - southwest crescent programs 2024

  • $100,000

    Greater Yellowstone Coalition · Bozeman, MT · 2024

    Environmental - us 26 wildlife crossings project: connecting wildlife on the togwotee trail from wind river to the grand tetons

  • $100,000

    Makeway Charitable Society · 2024

    Environmental - makeway shared platform: dasiqox-nexwagwez?an initiative

  • $100,000

    Resources Legacy Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2024

    Environmental - beitc: indigenous leadership in the collaborative management of bears ears national monument 2024

  • $100,000

    Evidence for Democracy · 2024

    Environmental - safeguarding scientific integrity in canada

  • $100,000

    First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2024

    Environmental - tribal co-management convening

  • $100,000

    Oregon Natural Desert Association · Bend, OR · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $100,000

    Makeway Foundation · 2024

    Environmental - emerging northern leadership and northern terrestrial conservation 2024

  • $100,000

    Wildlife Conservation Society Canada · 2024

    Environmental - wcs canada - yukon and northern bc program support 2024

  • $100,000

    Native Americans in Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - tribal nations climate and conservation pledge and funding collaborative

  • $100,000

    Compass Science Communication · Clackamas, OR · 2024

    Environmental - wf leaders in science and pathfinders programs

  • $100,000

    Colorado Plateau Foundation · Flagstaff, AZ · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $100,000

    Sky Island Alliance · Tucson, AZ · 2024

    Environmental - border wildlife study and advocacy support

  • $100,000

    New Mexico Wilderness Alliance · Albuquerque, NM · 2024

    Environmental - southwest new mexico wildlands protection 2024

  • $100,000

    Bears Ears Partnership · Bluff, UT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $90,000

    Environmental Investigation Agency · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - taking stock: a proposal for systemic reform of financing for junior mining companies

  • $85,000

    Oregon Wild · Portland, OR · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $80,000

    Conservation Northwest · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Environmental - wildlands and wildlife in washington's north cascades ecosystem 2024

  • $75,000

    Wildlife Conservation Society · Bronx, NY · 2024

    Environmental - alaskan arctic conservation

  • $75,000

    Montana Wildlife Federation · Helena, MT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $75,000

    Alaska Wilderness League · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - general support

  • $75,000

    American Rivers · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - protecting and restoring wild rivers and riverside lands in the pacific northwest 2024

  • $75,000

    Resource Media · Beaverton, OR · 2024

    Environmental - communications support for the y2y program 2024

  • $75,000

    Wild Montana · Helena, MT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $75,000

    Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Environmental - defending key habitat and species in the yellowstone to yukon region 2024

  • $75,000

    The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - protecting the wildlands of the cascades 2024

  • $75,000

    Society for Conservation Biology North America · Hales Corners, WI · 2024

    Environmental - scbna operations

  • $75,000

    Cascade Forest Conservancy · Vancouver, WA · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $75,000

    Idaho Wildlife Federation · Boise, ID · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $70,000

    People and Carnivores · Bozeman, MT · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $70,000

    Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - alaska conservation

  • $65,000

    Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness · Sandpoint, ID · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $65,000

    Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Environmental - rivers without borders: taku/transboundary watershed conservation campaign

  • $65,000

    Trustees for Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2024

    Environmental - protecting arctic ecosystems and wildlife

  • $65,000

    Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - idaho connectivity 2024

  • $60,000

    Makeway Charitable Society · 2024

    Environmental - makeway charitable society - organizing for change

  • $60,000

    University of Montana Foundation · Missoula, MT · 2024

    Environmental - tribal co-management on federal lands: implementation and practice

  • $60,000

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Environmental - tribal co-management on federal lands: implementation and practice

  • $55,000

    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society · 2024

    Environmental - protecting public lands and waters in southern albertas y2y region 2024

  • $55,000

    Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection · Tucson, AZ · 2024

    Environmental - general support 2024

  • $50,000

    American Forests · Washington, DC · 2024

    Environmental - ninth american forest congress

  • $50,000

    Montana Environmental Information Center · Helena, MT · 2024

    Environmental - montana mining, water and wildlife 2024

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.