Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,470,457 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($3,137,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Amazon Conservation Association does
Mission
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. As guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology and our close partnerships with local communities and governments to create innovative conservation solutions that balance the needs of people and nature.to protect some of the world's most diverse landscapes we: protect wild places by supporting governments and communities in the creation and long-term management of key protected areas and the wider landscape; empower people by partnering with communities to support them to strengthen their forest based livelihoods and protect their lands and resources; and put science and technology to work by carrying out scientific research and training the next generation of amazonian conservationists rooted in our biological stations and field programs in the andes-amazon.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Protecting wild places - amazon conservation protects critical ecosystems and biodiversity across the amazon basin by helping create, manage, and conserve indigenous territories and protected areas; ensuring landscape connectivity essential for species survival and climate adaptation; and directly addressing threats. To date, our alliance has supported the creation of 42 conservation areas protecting more than 10.5 million acres of irreplaceable ecosystems across peru and bolivia. In addition, through our monitoring of the andes amazon program (maap) and a network of local partners across the region, we help monitor and protect the greater amazon basin by employing state-of-the-art satellite imagery, drones, machine learning, and other technologies to detect in real time and combat illegal deforestation from mining, logging, ranching, and agricultural clearing across a range of protected areas and indigenous territories in bolivia, brazil, colombia, ecuador, and peru.
$1,274,974 spentof which $914,610 as grants40% of program spendingPutting science and technology to work - amazon conservation develops innovative conservation solutions using cutting-edge science and technology. Our alliance sister organizations operate world-class biological research stations in peru and bolivia which serve as living laboratories to carry out and host robust scientific research, facilitating learning and education of the next generation of scientists and conservationists. Beyond pioneering real-time forest crime detection and monitoring, amazon conservation's maap integrates the latest advances in satellite-based technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to provide regional intelligence on amazon-wide threats. Maap also provides governments and the international community with critical monitoring, analysis, and policy support on roads, fires, carbon, climate, and other major themes so that they can take informed action to avoid reaching the amazon's tipping point. Further biodiversity health monitoring is supported by the tropics' largest camera trap grid in bolivia and peru; an innovative amazonian fruits and climate change observatory that provides local producers and decision-makers in bolivia with data on…
$1,111,099 spentof which $404,609 as grants35% of program spendingEmpowering people - amazon conservation empowers local communities and indigenous peoples through our collective efforts to build a sustainable forest-based economy that fuels sustainable development and climate resilience for the region. Along with these local economic development efforts, we work closely with communities and civil society organizations to provide the tools needed to stop deforestation, especially illegal deforestation, to ensure the long-term protection of their natural resources. With support from several institutions and individuals since our inception 25 years ago, amazon conservation and our alliance sister organizations in peru and bolivia have made significant progress toward establishing a sustainable, climate-resilient, forest-based economy across 37 million acres in the amazon. By supporting dozens of producer associations in scaling up the sustainable production, processing, marketing, and sales of major forest products like aa berries and brazil nuts, we create economically viable alternatives to destructive practices like slash-and-burn agriculture and mining. We continue to deepen this work through diversifying production with other forest-based…
$764,973 spentof which $404,609 as grants24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,151,046.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.1M to $4.0M (+31%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 20% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
James Brumm
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 34 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $931k.
22 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 funders by total. 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
AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 37% · 2019 65% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 23% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44k on record.
- Department of the Interior$44k
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 AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,470,457 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($3,137,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $13,470,457 in grants to AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,137,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 119 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing