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AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM

AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,706 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($37,856). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2018
$1.8M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$108k
Net assets
$0
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What American National Fish & Wildlife Museum does

Mission

The American National Fish & Wildlife Museum managed and operated the former wonders of wildlife muesum. The wonders of wildlife provided visitors fish and wildlife museum exhibits, along with education and conservation programs.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

The American National Fish & Wildlife Museum provided supportive grant money to the johnny morris' wonders of wildlife national museum & aquarium for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the museum facility.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 61 ($1.8M) Expenses 61 ($1.1M)
20172018
Revenue (61)Expenses (61)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $0 (−100%).

$1.3M
$0
20172018
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$986k
’17
$603k
’18
7.5
months of
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.

20172018
Listed1517
Joined·+3
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $10k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Johnny Morris Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM’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

AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM.

35%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

54% of AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states.

TN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Johnny Morris Foundation · exempt
  • American Nat'L Fish & Wildlife Mues Dist · exempt
  • Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife Fdn · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM?
AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,706 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($37,856). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $107,706 in grants to AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,856 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 4 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