· Public charity
Colossal Science Foundation Inc
Mission of this corporation shall be to save endangered wildlife and habitats through sustainable assurance populations, expanding education initiatives, and responsible land stewardship including contributions to institutions organized for the same or similar purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $3,879,218 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,669,627 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,790,409 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $563k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $1,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $955,836 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY | $158,382 |
| WILD | $150,000 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE EXPLORERS CLUB | $90,000 |
| ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.8M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: DONATION - WILDLIFE HOSPITAL. · THE GIFT WILL BE AN ABSOLUTE GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY AND WILL BE MADE WITHOUT IMPOSING ANY BINDING OBLIGATION OR TRUST ON THE UNIVERSITY. · TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE VICTORIAN GRASSLAND EARLESS DRAGONS THROUGH CAPTIVE BREEDING.
Stated purpose: THE AWARD IS SPECIFICALLY TO COVER SALARY IN THE PERIOD 1/1-2025 TO 31/12-2025 AS PART OF A COLLABORATION INVESTIGATING GENETIC VARIATION OF THE EXTINCT AUROCHS AND QUAGGAS.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Colossal Science Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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