Ivorybill Foundation

• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and works by invitation only, so a cold proposal is unlikely to be considered; look first for a route to an introduction.
• Its recorded grants cover conservation and land protection, schools and colleges, social-service and food-support groups, civil-liberties and reproductive-health groups, and cultural and medical institutions, and it states no geographic focus, so judge fit by whether your work resembles these grants rather than by location.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $2,500 and $50,000, with a median of $10,000, so a request in that range is typical, although its largest grant was $100,000.
• Repeat funding is strong: 85% of the grant dollars it gave to organisations in the latest filing went to organisations it had also funded in one of the two filings before it, so a first grant may be harder to win than renewed support.
• The filing gives no account of how it selects organisations or when it decides, so plan on an unknown timetable.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Oceana · Unrestricted
  $75,0002024 tax year
• Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust · $10,000 unrestricted/$50,000 land acquisition pledge payment
  $60,0002024 tax year
• MD Anderson Cancer Center · Karen lu chair endowment
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Trust for Public Land · Unrestricted
  $35,0002024 tax year
• Trust for Public Land · The 33 fund
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Potomac Conservancy · Unrestricted
  $20,0002024 tax year
• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · Unrestricted
  $15,0002024 tax year
• Maine Center for Economic Policy · Unrestricted
  $10,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.