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Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation

To understand and protect chimpanzees, other apes, and their habitats, and to work towards creating an informed and compassionate critical mass of people who will help to create a better world for people, other animals, and our shared environment.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$867k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$3.4MAnimals$1.4MHealth$1.1MScience & Tech$310kEnvironment$49kEducation$49kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$14k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $1,034,764, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,396,888 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $362,124 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $157k
  • $250k+1 grant · $867k
$157,254
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATHFINDER$866,510
SAVE THE CHILDREN$157,254
MASON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$11,000
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATHFINDER: $867k → 8%CONNECTIVE INC: $10k → 8%GLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK: $15k → 6%THE POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 28%PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $1.1M → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $157k → 9%RTI INTERNATIONAL: $14k → 11%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 13%CONSERVATION RANGER OPERATION WORLDWIDE (CROW): $27k → 10%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER: $165k → 12%MASON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $11k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $18k → 18%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HAMPTON ROADS: $20k → 20%POPULATION MEDIA CENTER: $82k → 10%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $30k → 19%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER: $65k → 7%PATHFINDER: $257k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $159k → 28%PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $881k → 14%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $76k → 13%CONSERVATION RANGER OPERATION WORLDWIDE (CROW): $22k → 10%MGVP: $87k → 19%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER: $51k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $105k → 28%PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $641k → 14%DIAN FOSSY GORILLA FUND (DFGF): $75k → 13%MGVP: $56k → 19%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER: $48k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIATY (WCS): $74k → 28%PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $592k → 14%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $75k → 13%MGVP: $40k → 19%GORILLA REHABILITATION & CONSERVATION EDUCATON (GRACE) CENTER: $15k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $66k → 28%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $51k → 13%MGVP: $40k → 19%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $12k → 28%MGVP INC (THE GORILLA DOCTORS): $39k → 19%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
VT
MN
NY
MA
CT
CO
WV
VA
MD
NC
DC
MS
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $264k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $178k to organizations and $86k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$136k · 52% · 1 grant · 67 people

Stated purpose: FUNDING SUPPORT FOR CHIMP EDEN IN SOUTH AFRICA · SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS OFFERED TO STUDENTS AT VARIOUS EDUCATION LEVELS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$128k · 48% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: FUNDING TO PROGRAM · FUNDING TO PROGRAM IN EUROPE

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. 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.
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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 11% of Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 7 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$6.1M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+31%

Still filing today

86%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationInternationalScience & TechHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    5× · 2019–2023 · $417k · revenue +52%
  • DF
    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $375k · revenue +98%
  • GR
    GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $343k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • PM
    POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $82k · revenue +4%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +66%
  • CI
    Communities In Schools of Hampton Roadsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +140%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Health in Harmony

Health in Harmony's mission is to reverse tropical rainforest deforestation for planetary health.

Health
3
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
4
Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals
5
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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6
International Conservation Caucus Network

To advance conservation governance through political will and to provide "on the ground" solutions to ensure sustained economic benefits while managing the earth's natural resource wealth for future generations.

Unclassified
7
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
8
Wild Earth Allies Inc

Our mission is to protect vital areas of our planet for wildlife and people through local conservation action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us all.

Environment
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
10
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
11
Gorongosa Project Inc
Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Connective Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $4,310,636 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONALSave The Children Federation Inc: $157,254 · InternationalWildlife Conservation Society: $416,812 · AnimalsWildlife Conservat…GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC: $342,879 · AnimalsGORILLA REHABILITA…MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: $262,700 · AnimalsMGVP INC Mountain …+2 more: $44,522 · AnimalsDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $375,086 · OtherCONSERVATION RANGERS OPERATIONS WORLDWIDE CROW INC: $49,097 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $17,505 · Other+2 more: $21,000 · OtherResearch Triangle Institute: $310,179 · Science & TechPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC: $82,360 · EducationCommunities In Schools of Hampton Roads: $20,000 · EducationCONNECTIVE INC: $10,000 · EducationDESIGN IMPACT: $14,003 · Human Services
International$4,467,890Animals$1,066,913Other$462,688Science & Tech$310,179Education$112,360Human Services$14,003

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $4,310,636 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $416,812 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $375,086 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC: $342,879 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $310,179 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: $262,700 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $157,254 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC: $82,360 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Hampton Roads: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION NETWORK: $14,522 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDESIGN IMPACT: $14,003 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 17 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 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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