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Turtle Conservancy

The TURTLE CONSERVANCY is dedicated to protecting threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide, and to promoting their appreciation by people.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$178k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$61,960
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Turtle Conservancy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalAnimalsEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$178k60%
FY20232$45k100%
FY20223$118k67%
FY20211$20k0%
FY20203$22k33%
FY20194$145k50%
FY20182$133k50%
FY20171$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$458kEnvironment$213kScience & Tech$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rainforest Trust$225,87520%
Rewild$100,08020%
Turner Conservation Trust Co Wilmington Trust - Suzanne Markman$90,00052%
Duke University$70,00020%
Vildwerk Foundation Inc$27,5001n/a
Turner Endangered Species Fund$20,0002n/a
Chelonian Research Foundation$10,00015%
Terrapin Nesting Project a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$3,5002n/a
Theturtleroom$1,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.

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About Turtle Conservancy

How much does Turtle Conservancy give?
Turtle Conservancy reported 5 itemized grants totaling $177,590, out of $1,086,398 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Turtle Conservancy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (67%), Environment (31%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are Turtle Conservancy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rainforest Trust ($226k), Rewild ($100k), Turner Conservation Trust Co Wilmington Trust - Suzanne Markman ($90k).
Does Turtle Conservancy fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Turtle Conservancy based?
Turtle Conservancy is based in CA.

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 12 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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