Giving Societies

In 2013 the Wild Sheep Foundation launched a $25 Million fundraising campaign - Ensuring the Future of Wild Sheep (ETFOWS.)  This initiative offers tax and estate planning services, counsel and advice on major gifts, and giving societies to generate funding necessary to ensure the future of the wild sheep resource by directing even more dollars to wild sheep restoration, repatriation and conservation. Our vision is to build a series of funds, with a targeted annual off-take of approximately 4% allowing WSF to direct an additional $1 million annually in mission-focused funding to “Put and Keep Wild Sheep on the Mountain®”.  With your help, we can achieve this vision and goal. 
 
WSF Society donations can be made to the Wild Sheep Legacy Foundation (WSLF) Endowment Fund, the WSF Conservation Fund, or Area of Greatest Need.

A monumental milestone was achieved during our January 2024 convention when we fully subscribed the planned 100 member Marco Polo Society (MPS) when ten dedicated and altruistic Marco Polo Society members combined resources to buy the final MPS #100 membership for an astonishing $1 million bid! With this unmatched support the 100 Marco Polo Society members have contributed $11 million dollars to benefit wild sheep, their habitat, as well as support WSF’s future by building our endowment.

Upon reaching the 100 MPS member goal, and with an eye to WSF’s long term future, we created three new societies the Mountain Royalty Society, Legends Society and Pinnacle Society to compliment our now fully subscribed Marco Polo Society. These new societies make up our Keep Climbing Campaign under an overarching theme of Today, Tomorrow, & Forever for Wild Sheep.