Funding search · EIN 943137894 · Seattle, WA
Wilburforce Foundation
Foundation website ↗Full IRS filings ↗
- $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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