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Holtzman Wildlife Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.9MEnvironment$458kEducation$275kInternational$269kCivil Rights$50kArts & Culture$50k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$261
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAF AMERICA$34,000
FRIENDS OF BELIZE BIRD RESCUE$25,000
THE BELIZE ZOO AND NEOTROPICAL CONSERVANCY$10,000
PAMS FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE: $80k → 11%OCEANIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $125k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $97k → 10%ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY USA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 16%PAMS FOUNDATION: $26k → 18%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 7%SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 17%MACAW RECOVERY PROJECT USA: $36k → 16%RHINO CONSERVATION BOTSWANA TRUST USA: $130k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%OL JOGI COMMUNITY AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $25k → 13%SUSTENTARE: $25k → 15%DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $250k → 8%RED PANADA NETWORK: $31k → 15%CAF AMERICA: $34k → 9%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER: $75k → 7%INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE: $75k → 11%OCEANIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $60k → 8%MARALLIANCE: $25k → 10%ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENCY USA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 16%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $82k → 7%SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%OL JOGI COMMUNITY AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $32k → 10%NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $25k → 13%SUSTENTARE: $25k → 15%DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $150k → 8%CAF AMERICA: $25k → 9%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER: $50k → 7%INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE: $35k → 11%OCEANIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $34k → 8%MARALLIANCE: $25k → 10%ANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%FRIENDS OF BELIZE BIRD RESCUE: $25k → 15%DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100k → 8%CAF AMERICA: $25k → 9%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER: $25k → 7%INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE: $30k → 11%ANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%PELICAN ISLAND SEABIRD STATION: $25k → 15%DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $75k → 8%CAF AMERICA: $25k → 9%ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION LIMITED: $46k → 10%ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION LIMITED: $46k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
SC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Holtzman Wildlife Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Holtzman Wildlife Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 34% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 21 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$2.6M
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+38%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DZ
    DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $600k · revenue +39%
  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $275k · revenue +224%
  • OP
    Oceanic Preservation Society
    3× · 2019–2022 · $219k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • RC
    RHINO CONSERVATION BOTSWANA TRUST USA
    one grant, 2019 · $130k · revenue -98% · 49% of their budget
  • MR
    MACAW RECOVERY PROJECT USA
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
  • RP
    RED PANDA NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +77%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
2
Mozparks Initiative Inc

Mozparks initiativ, inc has been established to address and defeat the onslaught on elephant, rhino, and other species of wildlife and the habitat of wildlife in mozambique. mozparks partners with non-governmental organizations, local…

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3
Zambia Carnivore Programme

To safeguard large carnivores, their prey, and habitat in zambia through applied research, conservation, and education.

Animals
4
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
5
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
6
Wildlife Impact

Protect wildlife and ecosystems through research, evidence-based evaluation, capacity development and advocacy.

Animals
7
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
8
Zoo Outreach Organisation

Wildlife conservation, research and education.

Environment
9
Speak Out for Animals

Animal and Wildlife legal framework

Animals
10
Born Free Foundation
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11
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
12
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Rhino International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $600,000 · AnimalsDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $220,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INCAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCAsia Wild: $117,000 · AnimalsAsia WildWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $117,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INCSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $60,000 · Animals+9 more: $338,000 · Animals+9 moreGORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER: $175,000 · OtherGORILLA REHABILITA…RHINO CONSERVATION BOTSWANA TRUST USA: $130,000 · OtherRHINO CONSERVATION…JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE NEPAL: $74,000 · OtherJANE GOODALL INSTI…PELICAN ISLAND SEABIRD STATION: $50,000 · OtherPELICAN ISLAND SEA…MACAW RECOVERY PROJECT USA: $36,000 · OtherMACAW RECOVERY PRO…FOUR CORNERS INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $15,000 · OtherOceanic Preservation Society: $219,000 · EnvironmentOceanic Pres…OL JOGI COMMUNITY & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 · EnvironmentOL JOGI COMM…BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · EnvironmentBUSHLIFE CON…STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $274,700 · EducationSTONY BROO…MYRIAD USA INC: $75,000 · InternationalMARALLIANCE: $50,000 · InternationalPAMS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · InternationalCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $109,000 · PhilanthropySMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Animals$1,602,000Other$505,000Environment$341,000Education$274,700International$160,000Philanthropy$109,000Arts & Culture$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $600,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $274,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $220,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOceanic Preservation Society: $219,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRHINO CONSERVATION BOTSWANA TRUST USA: $130,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetAsia Wild: $117,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $117,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $109,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOL JOGI COMMUNITY & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNonhuman Rights Project Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMARALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetREWILD: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEndangered Species Protection Agency USA Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetONCAFARI INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL INC US: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPAMS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRED PANDA NETWORK: $31,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF BELIZE BIRD RESCUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC: $22,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOWELL NATURE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBELIZE ZOO AND NEOTROPICAL CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Coville-Triest Fa…PC Fund for Animals C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
The Coville-Triest Family FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Coville-Triest Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Holtzman Wildlife Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holtzman Wildlife Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 68%
  • Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc: 68% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Holtzman Wildlife Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Holtzman Wildlife Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home