THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

EIN 530242652 · Donor-advised fund program as reported on Form 990 Schedule D, fiscal year 2023.

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DAF assets
$60.48M
at fiscal year end
Grants out
$4.19M
from DAF accounts
Contributions in
$1.07M
received into DAFs
Payout rate
6.9%
median is 12.5%
Accounts
47
funds held at year end
Average account
$1.3M
assets per fund

At 6.9%, this sponsor paid out below the 12.5% median for sponsors holding more than $10 million.

DAF assets by year

$33.0M
FY2019
$66.1M
FY2020
$56.7M
FY2021
$60.4M
FY2022
$60.5M
FY2023

Grants paid by year

$2.2M
FY2019
$7.0M
FY2020
$4.4M
FY2021
$4.0M
FY2022
$4.2M
FY2023

A missing year means no return for that year has been released yet, not that the organization was inactive. Years marked fall in the 2020–21 pandemic giving surge, when contributions into donor-advised funds rose sharply across the sector; treat them as an unusual period rather than a baseline.

Grant disclosure

Itemized 2,345 grant lines totalling $284.7M across 2019–2024 — $121K per line.

$1.7M of this sponsor’s grants went to other DAF sponsors — 1% of its itemized grantmaking. Money moved between sponsors is reported as a grant, but it has not yet reached a working charity. This total counts only organizations whose donor-advised fund program is their primary activity, so grants to universities and hospitals that happen to run a DAF on the side are excluded.

Largest reported recipients

Organizations receiving the most from this sponsor across 2019–2024, as itemized on Schedule I. Only grants above $5,000 must be listed.

RecipientTotal 2019–2024
Blue Investments For Nature IncEIN 851228166 VA$60.6M
Spruce Root IncEIN 881801983 AK$8.0M
Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc runs a DAF programEIN 133028060 NY$6.6M
American Forest FoundationEIN 521235124 DC$4.8M
Watershed Research & Training CenterEIN 943116339 CA$4.7M
Usda Forest ServiceEIN 720564834 WI$4.4M
Yampa Valley Community Foundation runs a DAF programEIN 840794536 CO$4.3M
University Of WashingtonEIN 916001537 IL$4.1M
Feather River Land TrustEIN 680449687 CA$4.0M
Us Fish And Wildlife ServiceEIN 530201504 MT$3.8M
The Regents Of The University Of CaliforniaEIN 956006145 CA$3.7M
Ducks Unlimited IncEIN 135643799 TN$3.1M
Truckee Donner Land TrustEIN 680245327 CA$3.1M
Colorado State UniversityEIN 840517947 CO$2.4M
Audubon Society of PortlandEIN 936026088 OR$2.2M

How these figures are calculated: methodology and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 e-file XML for fiscal year 2023, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Recipient totals combine tax years 2019–2024 where filings are available. IRS release and parsing lag means recent years are incomplete for many organizations — NCCS advises treating the most recent year in the panel as partial.