· Public charity
The International Rhino Foundation
THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION (irf) ensures the survival of rhinos through strategic partnerships, targeted protection, and scientifically sound interventions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $45,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,243,430 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,198,430 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 |
|---|---|
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $45,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% 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 — $2.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR RHINO PROTECTION IN INDONEISA · SUPPORT FOR RHINO AND WILDLIFE PROTECTION IN LEUSER ECOSYSTEM, INDONESIA · SUPPORT FOR RHINO HABITAT MANAGEMENT IN WAY KAMBAS NATIONAL PARK, INDONESIA
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND LOGISTICS FOR WILDLIFE MONITORING · SUPPORT FOR RHINO REWILD TRANSLOCATIONS · MOUNTAINLANDS NATURE RESERVE (MNR) EXPANSION & PASSTHROUGH
Stated purpose: SUPPORT RHINO CONSERVATION IN NORTHERN INDIA · SUPPORT FOR RHINO HABITAT RESTORATION IN CHITWAN
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR LOWVELD RHINO TRUST OPERATIONS IN ZIMBABWE, RHINO MONITORING, PROTECTION, POPULATION MANAGEMENT · SUPPORT FOR WILDLIFE CRIME PREVENTION IN, AND TRAFFICING OUT, OF AFRICA
Stated purpose: INTELLIGENCE & INFORMANT SUPPORT · PASS-THROUGH SUPPORT FOR LOWVELD RHINO TRUST INFORMANT SYSTEM
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR RHINO CONSERVATION IN NAMIBIA & PASSTHROUGH
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR RHINO RESOURCE CENTER MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
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 +40% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION4× · 2018–2024 · $108k · revenue +33%- FZFRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC2× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +76%
NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- WPWILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONSone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -53%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCESone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -4%
- MZMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +131%
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.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The cheyenne mountain zoological society owns and operates the cheyenne mountain zoo. a leader in conservation, captive breeding and animal care, the zoo connects people with wildlife and wild places through experiences that inspire…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
The waterbird society is composed of biologists, researchers, conservationists, students, and others interested in the behavior, ecology, and conservation of waterbirds. the organization is administered by officers and council members…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.
The Sri Lanka Wild Life Conservation Society was set-up to help protect and conserve the diminishing of Sri Lanka and to make the local and international community aware of it's endangered status. It is dedicated to the conservation and…
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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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 The International Rhino 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.