The International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc.

The International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc., doing business as The Wild Foundation, is a Boulder, Colorado-based nonprofit organization that provides facilitation, secretariat, and coordination services for intergovernmental conservation and wilderness committees to the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture as a prime recipient of federal contracts and grants. The organization operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and does not compete under SBA set-asides.

The Wild Foundation's federal capability portfolio centers on professional secretariat and meeting facilitation services for multi-agency conservation initiatives, particularly the North American Intergovernmental Committee on Cooperation for Wilderness and Protected Areas Conservation (NAWPA/NAPA). Representative work includes a $166,362 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.664, Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program, awarded July 2024) to provide secretariat services, meeting facilitation, and coordination support for NAPA across its steering committees, executive committee, and task groups; a $1,092,648 Project Grant from Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620, awarded May 2024) supporting the Mali Elephant Project for community-based natural resource management and elephant habitat protection in the Gourma region; and multiple small annual purchase orders from the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office for NAWPA facilitation ($16,500 awarded August 2023, $16,000 awarded May 2022, $9,980 awarded July 2024). Recent contract work also includes a $15,000 purchase order from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Arizona Region for NAPA committee facilitation (September 2026) and a $10,000 purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service for educational event support related to the World Wilderness Congress (July 2024).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service National Office accounts for 12 awards and $263 thousand in combined potential value across the top customers by count, representing a dominant share of visible award activity. Fish and Wildlife Service entities — Region 9 Headquarters and agency-wide — hold 17 of the top 33 ranked awards. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service appears on two awards. Awards have averaged two to four per year over the past five years, with stable volume and no material growth trajectory. Only one award ($15 thousand potential value) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure. The organization's federal footprint spans contract work categorized under NAICS codes for management consulting services and convention organization, with grant work rooted in wildlife conservation and intergovernmental coordination.