Kentucky · Nonprofit
AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC
AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,924,119 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,926,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Amphibian & Reptile Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Conservation of amphibians, reptiles and their habitats in the united states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Population surveys, monitoring, habitat management, training, education, and facilitating collaborative projects that promote amphibian and reptile conservation across public and private landscapes. The organization is a fiscal sponsor of partners in amphibian and reptile conservation (parc) which is a network of separate regions and chapters affiliated with a national entity. The organization is also the fiscal sponsor of the national parc entity. The organization provides the operating support that enables parc to receive grants, contracts and tax deductible donations. Program service accomplishments include regional conferences and workshops to provide professional development, education, training and promotion of ampibian and reptile conservation.
$948,124 spent$140,409 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $948,124.
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 2023 to 2024, from $930k to $2.5M (+170%).
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 41% · 2018 43% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 30% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Joseph Apodaca
Executive director
Board chair
Priya Nanjappa
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $3k → $850k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY 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
AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 91% · 2023 88% — 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
60% of AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
85% of AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC'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 $590k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M 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
AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250 on record.
- Dues$250
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 AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC?
- AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,924,119 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,926,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,924,119 in grants to AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $2,926,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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