California · Public charity
Elephant Cooperation
To save elephants and wildlife while feeding and educating children. We achieve this by creating balanced and healthy communities so that people and animals live in harmony, by protecting the habitats of elephants and other animals, and by supporting the development of sustainable communities through education. ELEPHANT COOPERATION…
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $760k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $28,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $307,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $751k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations Elephant Cooperation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $760k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $356k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $696k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $762k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $192k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $398k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $135k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $190k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $550,500 | 3 | 1% |
| African Parks Foundation of America | $414,257 | 5 | 1% |
| Small Steps for Compassion | $398,750 | 4 | 23% |
| Space for Giants USA Inc | $310,615 | 5 | 15% |
| The Ellen Fund | $250,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Uds Systems LLC | $224,863 | 2 | n/a |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $199,000 | 4 | 0% |
| African Community and Conservation Foundation Inc | $164,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Air Shepherd | $152,852 | 2 | 97% |
| Givepower Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Elephant Cooperation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Elephant Cooperation
- How much does Elephant Cooperation give?
- Elephant Cooperation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $760,111, out of $1,530,767 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Elephant Cooperation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (48%), Environment (18%), Education (14%).
- Who are Elephant Cooperation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wildlife Conservation Network Inc ($551k), African Parks Foundation of America ($414k), Small Steps for Compassion ($399k).
- Does Elephant Cooperation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elephant Cooperation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Elephant Cooperation based?
- Elephant Cooperation is based in CA.
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