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Mzuri Wildlife Foundation
MZURI WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is dedicated to promoting wildlife conservation and educating and encouraging the next generation of outdoor sports enthusiasts with an emphasis on women and youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $148,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $214,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,100 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORIA FALLS WILDLIFE TRUST | $43,000 |
| IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| SHEPHERDS OF WILDLIFE SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP (KOSC) | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 — $46k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +154% since the first grant, against +115% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KOKIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +154%
- WHWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary8× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +262%
- SOShepherds of Wildlife Society3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- CFCONSERVATION FORCE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
- CCCALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +115%
- SCSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +179%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1. To preserve land and wildlife for the use and education of future generations.2. To assist in wildlife management programs that protect and preserve land and wildlife.3. To provide education regardign the importance of hunting and its…
It is the foundation's mission to further the purposes and objectives of california waterfowl association (cwa), a california corporation exempt from income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
Global conservation force is dedicated to saving wildlife from extinction through education, anti-poaching and conservation efforts.
The mission of the california waterfowl legislative action fund is to conservecalifornia's waterfowl, wetlands, and hunting heritage through legislative advocacy.
Iwt is committed to combatting both the causes and effects of illegal wildlife trafficking by focusing on transnational organized crime groups who have escaped the consequences of their criminal activities to date.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safari Club International Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shepherds of Wildlife Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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.
- Who funds KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds THE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds of Wildlife Society ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Idaho Wildlife Federation ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mzuri Wildlife Foundation 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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