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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.

$214k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$43k
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$439kRecreation & Sports$370kYouth Development$90kEnvironment$85kMembership Benefit$35kCrime & Legal$15k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $148,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $214,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,100 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.
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%IDAHO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $15k → 8%SHEPHERDS OF WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $75k → 11%CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP (KOSC): $30k → 10%KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP: $30k → 10%KID'S OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP - KOSC: $30k → 15%ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION OR AMERICA INC: $15k → 17%IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 13%5 STAR SAFARIS INC: $25k → 11%CALIFORNIA WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $8k → 17%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%WATER FOR WILDLIFE: $10k → 17%CONSERVATION FORCE: $10k → 15%IDAHO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10k → 8%SHEPHERDS OF WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $35k → 11%CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $16k → 6%KID'S OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP - KOSC: $30k → 15%ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $15k → 17%IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $40k → 13%5 STAR SAFARIS INC: $15k → 11%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%WATER FOR WILDLIFE: $9k → 17%SHEPHERDS OF WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $10k → 11%THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION OF ITHEMBA: $15k → 6%KID'S OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP - KOSC: $30k → 15%ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 17%IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $20k → 13%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION OF ITHEMBA: $7k → 17%CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP: $30k → 15%ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $8k → 17%IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $15k → 13%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION OF ITHEMBA: $7k → 17%THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION OF ITHEMBA: $9k → 6%KID'S OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP - KOSC: $30k → 15%ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION OR AMERICA INC: $6k → 17%IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $11k → 13%THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION OF ITHEMBA: $7k → 17%THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION OF ITHEMBA: $5k → 6%KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP: $30k → 15%THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION OF ITHEMBA: $6k → 17%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

WA
ID
MT
MI
NY
OR
WY
CA
VA
AZ
LA
FL

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$46k · 100% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 11 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against +115% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$1.0M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+154%
+115%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
AnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalMembership BenefitOther
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

  • KO
    KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +154%
  • WH
    Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary
    8× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +262%
  • SO
    Shepherds of Wildlife Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • CF
    CONSERVATION FORCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +115%
  • SC
    SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +179%
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
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation
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3
Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation
Animals
4
Orange County Wildlife Foundation
Animals
5
Interlaken Wildlife Foundation
Animals
6
Wildlife Conservation Foundation

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…

Animals
7
Moore-Odom Wildlife Foundation Inc
Environment
8
Inland Northwest Wildlife Council

Promote interest, education, and conservation regarding hunting and fishing and aid in the protection of wildlife. promote sportsman like hunting methods and improve hunter/landowner relations.

Animals
9
Mpala Wildlife Foundation Inc
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10
California Waterfowl Legislative Action Fund

The mission of the california waterfowl legislative action fund is to conservecalifornia's waterfowl, wetlands, and hunting heritage through legislative advocacy.

—
11
Global Conservation Force Inc

Global conservation force is dedicated to saving wildlife from extinction through education, anti-poaching and conservation efforts.

Animals
12
Arizona Wildlife Federation

Arizona Wildlife Federation's purpose is to promote and encourage the conservation, propagation, development and management of fish, game and other wildlife; to promote and encourage the wise use, conservation and restoration of waters,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safari Club International Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary: $213,000 · AnimalsWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and SanctuaryTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $136,000 · AnimalsTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INCShepherds of Wildlife Society: $120,000 · AnimalsShepherds of Wildlife SocietyIdaho Wildlife Federation: $25,000 · Animals+3 more: $22,000 · AnimalsKIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP: $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMPCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $59,600 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA W…ISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATI: $53,500 · EnvironmentISRAEL NATUR…THE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION: $55,618 · Philanthropy5 STAR SAFARIS INC: $40,000 · OtherNRA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalWATER FOR WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $34,500 · Membership Benefit
Animals$516,000Youth Development$240,000Environment$113,100Philanthropy$55,618Other$40,000Crime & Legal$35,000Membership Benefit$34,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP: $240,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary: $213,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $136,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetShepherds of Wildlife Society: $120,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $59,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JERNIGAN FOUNDATION: $55,618 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATI: $53,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FOR WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetIdaho Wildlife Federation: $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCONSERVATION FORCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP: $7,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mzuri Wildlife Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mzuri Wildlife Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mzuri Wildlife Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mzuri 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 14 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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