Florida · Nonprofit
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,648 to it, the largest being GLENN W BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,424 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,424 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Pershing Charitable Trustshared funders
- The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Incportfolio match
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
66% of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.1M.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation 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
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 49% · 2023 92% — 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 Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 42% 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
97% of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pershing Charitable Trustshared fundersMO · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Malcolm C Damuth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wagmore Foundation Agencyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacksonville Zoological Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nashville Zoo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dilks-Counts Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mika Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Zoo Management Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- BWS Foundation Holdings LLC · disregarded
- The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation 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 Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc?
- Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,648 to it, the largest being GLENN W BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,150,648 in grants to Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc?
- GLENN W BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing