How much does Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation give?

Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $628,490 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (71%), International (17%), Food & Nutrition (4%).

Who are Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($65k), Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ($56k), New Generation Ministries ($46k).

Does Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Mary H Storer Foundation, Seattle Foundation.

Where is Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation based?

Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation is based in DE.

Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation

Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Shiraz and Leili 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.

$628k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$611k

Largest

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$1.2MInternational$279kFood & Nutrition$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kHealth$25kYouth Development$18kReligion$15kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $17k
$250k+1 grant · $611k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE	$611,340
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC	$5,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS	$2,000
FRIENDS OF TRI-CITIES ANIMAL SHELTER	$2,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC	$2,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC	$2,000
CASTAWAY ANIMALS RESCUE EFFORT	$1,500
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE	$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT LONG TERM SUPPORT TR	$1,000
LIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIES	$650

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 35% of grant dollars ($579k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 65% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

Beyond the US: 65% of all-years giving ($1.1M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

Kenya$1.1M · 4 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 73% 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 26 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+76%

Still filing today

65%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +98%
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Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank
7× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +99%
NG
NEW GENERATION MINISTRIES
2× · 2017–2018 · $46k · revenue +37%

Funded once

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MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT
one grant, 2022 · $24k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +76%
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UMCOR
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals

Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals

Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals

The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals

World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…

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Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals

Animal Samaritans

At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is The Costco Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

29/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,256,705International$250,500Animals$66,400Food & Nutrition$56,068Youth Development$18,000Health$16,000Human Services$6,000

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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Whatcom Community Foundation · Little Family Legacy Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Tucker Family Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Albertsons Companies 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 Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shiraz and Leili Wildlife Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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