
The Conservation Fund
Over the last decade, this organization has placed more than 500,000 acres of working forest under conservation.
To make Charity Navigator’s list of 10 of the best large, well-known charities, an organization must rank highly for financial performance, transparency, and accountability. The Conservation Fund earned its place on this list through efficiencies that allow 98 percent of the money it takes in to go directly toward its mission—creating partnerships with people, government, business, and colleague organizations to protect natural resources and deliver economic vitality.
American conservationist Patrick Noonan founded the fund in 1985 as a nimble, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization. Over the last decade, it has placed more than 500,000 acres under conservation management through a program whose goal is to purchase and permanently protect five million acres of working forests.
BJT readers—who represent one of the highest-net-worth magazine audiences anywhere—clearly have the means to contribute to a better world. To help you do that, we spotlight deserving organizations in every issue. All of them have received a four-star overall rating from Charity Navigator (charitynavigator.org), which evaluates philanthropic institutions based on their finances, accountability, and transparency.