· Public charity
International Association for Bear Research and Management
To advance scientific understanding and global conservation of the world's 8 bear species.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $250k+1 grant · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $266,723 |
| CENTRE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES | $9,933 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $8,850 |
| BEAR CARE GROUP | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $58k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $17k to organizations and $42k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION GRANT · EXPERIENCE AND EXCHANGE GRANT · IBA CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT
Stated purpose: RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION GRANT
Stated purpose: IBA CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT
Stated purpose: IBA CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT
Stated purpose: IBA CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT
How this is measured
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 6 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization International Association for Bear Research and Management funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Association for Bear Research and Management. Bigger dots raise more.
- Centre for Wildlife Studies Inc: 20% of income from government
How this is measured
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