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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 “iucn”
Where the money went
Largest: $23,912 to IUCN INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES — 2024 iucn membership support
Zoological Society of San DiegoSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $215,000 · through 2024Largest: $110,000 to REWILD — conservation support for iucn ssc
Largest: $8.0M to INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES — in support of iucn's green list protected area management certification to achieve 30% global conservation.
Conservation International FoundationArlington, VACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $947,106 · through 2024Largest: $453,735 to INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES — accelerate conservation and restoration of coastal blue carbon habitats globally; indo-burma iii small grant mechanism; iucn-ci biodiversity unit; africa oceans fellow; representat…
Largest: $20,000 to PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — population viability analysis for the long-tailed macaque (macaca fascicularis) in southeast asia by the iucn cpsg collaboration with the ltm project
Largest: $100,000 to IUCN International Union for Conservation Of Nature & Natural Resources — lao ecology small grant program - phase ii
Largest: $99,876 to IUCN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE NETHERLANDS — protecting human rights in africa
Largest: $55,000 to IUCN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA PROGRAM — for the project "support for the sustainable management of databases for aquatic ecosystems in the chari-logone sub-basin"
Largest: $19,935 to IUCN — public charity general fund
American Humane AssociationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $50,000 · through 2022Largest: $25,000 to IUCN SPECIES SURVIVAL CO REWILD — animal welfare
Wild Sheep FoundationBozeman, MTCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $10,528 · through 2024Largest: $5,498 to IUCN INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSER — sheep enhancement
Largest: $6,400 to KEEP GHANA BEAUTIFUL — protecting two endemic iucn critically endangered freshwater snails (potadoma togoensis and pseudocleopatra togoensis) from extinction
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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 →