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· Public charity

Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$637kEnvironment$327kScience & Tech$82kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $336,789, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,276,105 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $939,316 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $317k
$61,505
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$110,000
INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION$86,000
GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION GRACE CENTE$61,505
BUTTERFLY PAVILION$59,284
KATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND$20,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THUNDERHEART MEDIA INC: $50k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY HAWAII MANOA: $8k → 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $20k → 28%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $86k → 11%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $10k → 14%FORGOTTEN PARKS FOUNDATION: $16k → 13%GLOBAL CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $13k → 13%NATURE EDUCATORS: $15k → 3%BUTTERFLY PAVILION: $85k → 5%KATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND: $20k → 7%CATS AREN'T TROPHIES: $110k → 7%IDEA WILD: $34k → 11%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION GRACE CENTE: $112k → 12%NATURE'S EDUCATORS WILDLIFE PROGRAM: $8k → 17%ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: $20k → 9%ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF PROJECT: $10k → 7%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $20k → 28%INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%BUTTERFLY PAVILION: $59k → 5%KATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND: $20k → 7%IDEA WILD: $16k → 11%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION GRACE CENTE: $64k → 12%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $15k → 28%BUTTERFLY PAVILION: $51k → 5%KATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND: $20k → 7%IDEA WILD: $13k → 11%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION GRACE CENTE: $62k → 12%BUTTERFLY PAVILION: $34k → 5%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION GRACE CENTE: $53k → 12%BUTTERFLY PAVILION: $6k → 5%GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION GRACE CENTE: $40k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
CA
CO
MD
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $552k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$511k · 93% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$17k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

East Asia and the Pacific$10k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

Central America and the Caribbean$8k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RHINO CONSERVATION

North America (Canada and Mexico)$7k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$962k · 8 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$962k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-2%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsScience & TechEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • GR
    GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $331k · revenue +72%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM
    5× · 2019–2024 · $236k · revenue +55%
  • TI
    THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $146k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TM
    Thunderheart Media Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -53%
  • TA
    THE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +86%
  • FP
    FORGOTTEN PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue -110%
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.

1
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
4
Born Free Foundation
—
5
Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals
6
The Nature Institute
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7
The Fauna Foundation
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8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
10
Livewilder Foundation
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11
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
12
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The International Rhino Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC: $330,773 · AnimalsGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INCROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM: $236,114 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUMTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $145,526 · AnimalsTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATIONKATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND: $60,000 · AnimalsKATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUNDWildlife Conservation Society: $55,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation SocietyREWILD: $49,550 · Animals+4 more: $56,237 · Animals+4 moreIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual…IDEA WILD INC: $62,179 · Science & TechTHE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: $20,000 · Science & TechThunderheart Media Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFORGOTTEN PARKS FOUNDATION: $15,725 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $7,925 · EducationTIDES FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Animals$933,200Other$110,000Science & Tech$82,179Arts & Culture$50,000Environment$15,725Education$7,925Philanthropy$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC: $330,773 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM: $236,114 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $145,526 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetIDEA WILD INC: $62,179 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetKATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThunderheart Media Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetREWILD: $49,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNatures Educators: $23,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN PARKS FOUNDATION: $15,725 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $13,237 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $7,925 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wildlife Protection Solutions funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wildlife Protection Solutions. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wildlife Protection Solutions?

    Find your warmest path to Wildlife Protection Solutions through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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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