$740K in expenses

The natural resources foundation of wisconsin provides funding for our state's most important and vulnerable landscape gems, particularly state natural areas, state parks, and other key public lands. In these special places, we support restoration, climate resilience, and accessibility. We fund forests, prairies, lakes, wetlands, bluffs, barrens, savannas, fens, bogs, and more.

$370K in expenses

The natural resources foundation of wisconsin provides funding for projects that protect our state's rare and endangered species. Some major programs include protection of ornate box turtles, whooping cranes, kirtland's warblers, american martens, rusty-patched bumblebees, grassland birds, and native bats. Projects monitor populations, conduct research, and improve habitat.

$843K in expenses

The natural resources foundation of wisconsin's conservation education program includes a statewide field trip program (over 318 outdoor experiences provided in 2024), educational outreach to promote citizen-science and other conservation volunteering opportunities, and funding for educators, schools, nature centers, and other education partners that engage youth and adults in hands-on outdoor education.

$142K in expenses

The natural resources foundation created the wisconsin conservation endowment, serving as a "community foundation for conservation" to provide individual donors and non-profit organizations opportunities to build a permanent and sustainable source of private funding to support all aspects of natural resources conservation in wisconsin. The natural resources foundation manages the assets of more than 124 individual endowment funds, agency funds, and spend-down funds that support species protection, education, habitat management, and other conservation organizations. In addition, the natural resources foundation manages the funds of escrow accounts under third-party custodial agreements for the purpose of natural area conservation.