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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “conservationists”
Where the money went
Largest: $110,000 to TANZANIA FOREST CONSERVATION GROUP — for the project "biodiversity data collection and training conservationists in east and west usambaras".
Largest: $250,000 to HUNTERS OF COLOR — to cultivate opportunities that develop hunter conservationists, increasing diversity in hunting, angling, and conservation
Largest: $15,000 to Christodora — new youth conservationists saturday program
Largest: $85,000 to SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN — support of the youth water conservationists program
Largest: $10,000 to Smithsonian Institute — the smithsonian conservation biology institute (scbi) plays a leading role in the smithsonians global efforts to save wildlife species from extinction and train future generations …
Midway USA FoundationColumbia, MOCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $31,088 · through 2024Largest: $10,656 to BEAVER DAM CONSERVATIONISTS INC — to fund youth shoothing sports
Largest: $15,000 to BEAVER INSTITUTE — to support scholarships for under-resourced attendees to annual convention of beaver scientists and conservationists.
Largest: $10,000 to FEDERATED CONSERVATIONISTS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY INC — general operating support
Largest: $127,500 to Michigan United Conservation Clubs — to support the nation's largest organization of conservationists, hunters and anglers as they work in alliance to protect and restore habitat and water resources in great lakes sta…
Largest: $200,000 to FEDERATED CONSERVATIONISTS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY I — save pocantico lake project
The Foothills FoundationSan Francisco, CA
2 matching grants · $388,333 · through 2022Largest: $333,333 to DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION — to support programs and policy efforts to grow california's waterfowl populations, wetlands and hunter conservationist communities.
Largest: $5,000 to AMERICAN WHITEWATER — national non-profit organization with a mission "to conserve and restore america's whitewater resources and to enhance opportunities to enjoy them safely." american whitewater is a…
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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 →