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· Public charity

The Peregrine Fund Inc

To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.

$909k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$252k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.7MEnvironment$316kScience & Tech$163kEducation$158k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $448,086, the rows itemized in this filing. The $909,068 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $460,982 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $29k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $167k
  • $250k+1 grant · $252k
$167,225
Median grant
3
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METRO (OREGON ZOO)$251,861
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY$167,225
EARTHSPAN$29,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BSU FOUNDATION: $259k → 8%UC Santa Cruz Foundation: $112k → 13%University of North Texas: $8k → 8%METRO (OREGON ZOO): $297k → 12%Conservation Science Global Inc: $52k → 10%EARTHSPAN: $45k → 16%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $167k → 8%METRO (OREGON ZOO): $252k → 12%Conservation Science Global Inc: $20k → 10%Earthspan: $30k → 16%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $113k → 8%METRO (OREGON ZOO): $238k → 12%Conservation Science Global Inc: $10k → 10%EARTHSPAN: $29k → 16%Boise State University: $51k → 8%Metro (Oregon Zoo): $119k → 12%EARTHSPAN: $25k → 16%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $46k → 8%Metro (Oregon Zoo): $112k → 12%Earthspan: $25k → 16%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 8%Metro (Oregon Zoo): $100k → 12%Earthspan: $25k → 16%METRO (OREGON ZOO): $98k → 12%EarthSpan: $20k → 16%Earthspan: $20k → 16%EARTHSPAN: $15k → 16%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $340k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $104k to organizations and $236k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$101k · 30% · 1 grant · 42 people

Stated purpose: HAITI GRANT RIDGEWAY HAWK (ACSEH) · CONSERVATION RESEARCH · CONFERENCE AWARD

South Asia$76k · 22% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: INDIA RESEARCH GRANT · HIMALAYAN RAPTORS · WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Sub-Saharan Africa$69k · 20% · 2 grants · 48 people

Stated purpose: KENYA BIRDS OF PREY/RAPTOR RESEARCH · RAPTOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION · RAPTOR/BIRDS OF PREY RESEARCH

South America$61k · 18% · 33 people

Stated purpose: ANDEAN CONDOR · CONFERENCE AWARDS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$17k · 5% · 3 people

Stated purpose: VULTURE STUDIES · CONFERENCE AWARD

Russia and Neighboring States$8k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: KAZATSTAN STUDIES

North America (Canada and Mexico)$5k · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RAPTOR STUDIES

East Asia and the Pacific$2k · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: VULTURE RESEARCH

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 4 repeat orgs$431k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +135% since the first grant, against +81% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$1.9M
$431k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+135%
+81%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • OZ
    OREGON ZOO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M
  • BS
    Boise State University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $387k
  • E
    EARTHSPAN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $234k · revenue +96% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • BS
    Boise State University Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $259k · revenue +81%
  • US
    UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $112k · revenue +8%
  • CS
    Conservation Science Global Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $52k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 8 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON ZOO: $1,215,746 · OtherOREGON ZOOBoise State University: $387,077 · OtherBoise State University+2 more: $60,144 · OtherBoise State University Foundation Inc: $258,989 · EducationBoise State Univer…UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $111,830 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUN…EARTHSPAN: $234,000 · EnvironmentEARTHSPANCONSERVATION SCIENCE GLOBAL: $30,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION …
Other$1,662,967Education$370,819Environment$264,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $258,989 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHSPAN: $234,000 over 9y, 59% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $111,830 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONSERVATION SCIENCE GLOBAL: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% 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.

  • Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EARTHSPAN ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION SCIENCE GLOBAL ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Peregrine Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peregrine Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Conservation Science Global: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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