Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC
AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,975 to it, the largest being Wildlife Conservation Society ($199,464). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $535k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $183k
What African Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc does
Mission
Through focused research, conservation, and education actions, the african aquatic conservation fund is dedicated to the preservation of african manatees, turtles, and other aquatic wildlife and their habitats throughout the african continent. We work in close partnership with local people, scientists, governments, and other stakeholders for the benefit of both wildlife and humans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The african manatee program leader supervised six graduate students from three countries and conducted fieldwork programs in senegal and guinea. African manatee genetics, feeding ecology, and age determination studies continued with collaborators from six african countries. As part of genetics research, we continued the first environmental dna (edna) sampling anywhere in west africa, during our surveys of interior rivers in guinea. We continued a partnership for manatee research with the abu dhabi aquarium, and a long-term photo-id study of individual manatees at pt st george, casamance, senegal. The pi and collaborators published three scientific manuscripts. An additional two scientific manuscripts have been submitted to journals.
$75,000 spent16% of program spendingThe west african sea turtle program led projects in gabon, equatorial guinea and cote d'ivoire. In gabon we continued to coordinate the gabon sea turtle partnership, a network of projects to protect sea turtles and their habitat through beach surveillance, research, threat reduction, capacity-building and outreach. In equatorial guinea we continued to monitor sea turtle threats and conducted a national awareness-raising campaign. In cote d'ivoire we continued to collaborate with local partners to monitor and protect 50 km of nesting beaches and carry out community-based conservation initiatives, as well as implement the country's first marine protected area. We published 2 peer-reviewed scientific studies.
$165,000 spent36% of program spendingThe african cetaceans program conducted continuing passive acoustic monitoring (pam) projects off the west coast of madagascar, off the nampula coast of mozambique, and off senegal. The pam work in the mozambique channel was part of a multi-partner effort to mitigate shipping noise in the southwest indian ocean (swio) funded by the french govt agency ffem, and involved two expeditions to cross the mozambique channel in a sailing vessel to deploy and recover remote acoustic recorders. We also conducted an omura's whales research expedition off the northwest coast of madagascar surveying approximately 400 km of coast in a sailing vessel. The ceteceans program leader co-supervised three phd students enrolled at curtin university - mauritius campus, on the acoustic ecology of blue whales, humpback whales and sperm whales in the swio. The leader also attended and presented work at the bienial meeting of the scientific committee of the international whaling commission in bled, slovenia.
$120,000 spent26% of program spendingThe african chelonian institute (aci) led surveys to document sea turtle poaching and bycatch in mbodiene and joal, senegal in partnership with the joal-fadiouth marine protected area. Aci held the fourth national sea turtle awareness days for senegal at national park of langue de barbarie near saint-louis over four days. The event included an official ceremony, awareness activities, educational displays and beach clean ups at three sites. It was attended by over 1500 participants. Four sea turtle nests at ngazobil were monitored. A temporary turtle facility was maintained in ngazobil. On the new aci land for the permanent facility, a well has been dug and an access road was cleared.
$51,800 spent11% of program spendingThe senegal stranding network conducted three coastal stranding surveys. We also responded to carcasses outside of surveys throughout the year. We documented 60 stranded cetaceans and 38 stranded sea turtles (most were sampled for genetics, taxonomy and other data collection). We partnered with colleagues from the smithsonian museum of natural history for cetacean taxonomy and genetics studies. We also analyzed stranding data collected since 2014 and continued writing two manuscripts for scientific publication. Other programs
$47,813 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $459,613.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $269k to $458k (+70%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $32k → $2k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 83% · 2019 74% · 2020 57% · 2021 69% · 2022 70% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.4M
- Department of Commerce$104k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC?
- AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,975 to it, the largest being Wildlife Conservation Society ($199,464). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $510,975 in grants to AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC?
- Wildlife Conservation Society is the largest funder on record, with $199,464 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing