· Public charity
Turtle Conservancy
The TURTLE CONSERVANCY is dedicated to protecting threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide, and to promoting their appreciation by people.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OCEAN FOUNDATION | $61,960 |
| REWILD | $53,130 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| CHELONIAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| TURNER ENDANGERED SPECIES LLC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $906k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: OPERATING OF LAND PRESEVE
Stated purpose: TO ASSIST WITH THE GEOMETRIC TORTOISE PROJECT
Stated purpose: KFI DUMARO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 50% of Turtle Conservancy’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RTRAINFOREST TRUST2× · 2018–2019 · $226k · revenue -13%
REWILD2× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +243%- TCTURNER CONSERVATION TRUST CO WILMINGTON TRUST - SUZANNE MARKMAN5× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue -57%
Funded once
- VFVILDWERK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +85%
- CRCHELONIAN RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
- TTHETURTLEROOMone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Turtle Conservancy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Turtle Conservancy. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chelonian Research Foundation: 16% of income from government
How this is measured
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