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12 funders with a record of paying for “biospheric”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA — strengthening the sustainability and resilience of livelihoods in agricultural landscapes and the biodiversity of the ometepe island biosphere reserve, nicaragua
Largest: $70,000 to Rainforest Alliance — restoring and conserving threatened biodiversity-rich in the maya biosphere reserve
Largest: $60,000 to WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY — maya biosphere reserve fund
Largest: $10.0M to INTERNATIONALER NATURERBE FONDS - LEGACY LANDSCAPES FUND — in support of the long-term effective management, financial sustainability, and impact monitoring of the yasuni biosphere reserve, ecuador.
Largest: $1.1M to Global Water Challenge — watershed protection for the kruger to canyons biosphere in northern south africa
Largest: $250,000 to ASOCIACION DE COMUNIDADES FORESTALES DE PETEN — to consolidate the community forest concessions model in the mayan biosphere reserve of guatemala
Largest: $2,000 to INSTITUTE OF ECOTECHNICS — funding biospheric studies program development
Largest: $65,000 to HAWASSA UNIVERSITY — to generate information on insect pollinators diversity, share data openly and create awareness through platforms on food security and ecosystem health values of insect pollinators…
Largest: $31,000 to CASCADE HEAD BIOSPHERE COLLABORATIVE — support of daily operations
Hawk Rock FoundationFort Lauderdale, FL
2 matching grants · $20,000 · through 2023Largest: $10,000 to THE BIOSPHERE FOUNDATION — further the charity activity
Largest: $100,000 to BIOSPHERE FOUNDATION — to regenerate our earth's biosphere.
Largest: $55,000 to MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — to investigate how sulfur assimilation may have impacted redox transitions in the early earth biosphere
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →