Virginia · Nonprofit
Cheetah Conservation Fund
Cheetah Conservation Fund (Virginia) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,067,142 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,166,638). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Cheetah Conservation Fund does
Mission
The Cheetah Conservation Fund's mission is to ensure the long-term survival of the cheetah and its ecosystem through a multi-disciplined and integrated program of research and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Cheetah Conservation Fund promotes public awareness and education through lecture tours, publications, regional volunteer "chapters and fundraising activities, which bring the plight of the wild cheetah to the public's attention. These activities occur largely in the United States, but also occasionally in other countries. In addition, the Cheetah Conservation Fund promotes support and cooperation with other organizations and their activities to raise public awareness, disseminate information and provide educational activities about the plight of the cheetah in the wild, associated threatened wildlife, and their habitats.
$5,622,863 spentof which $4,074,100 as grants$15,332 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,622,863.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.4M to $3.0M (−32%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 10% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Cheetah Conservation Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Laura L Marker
Executive Director
Board chair
Susan Y Janin
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 38 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $517k → $683k.
30 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Cheetah Conservation Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 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
Cheetah Conservation Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
73% 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 Cheetah Conservation Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 20% · 2019 19% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 32% — 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
27% of Cheetah Conservation Fund'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
53% of Cheetah Conservation Fund'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
Cheetah Conservation Fund has grown faster than half 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 Cheetah Conservation Fund receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $638k on record — $638k federal, $165 state.
- Department of the Interior$638k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $165
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 Cheetah Conservation Fund
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cheetah Conservation Fund: 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 Cheetah Conservation Fund?
- Cheetah Conservation Fund (Virginia) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,067,142 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,166,638). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cheetah Conservation Fund have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $6,067,142 in grants to Cheetah Conservation Fund, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cheetah Conservation Fund?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,166,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cheetah Conservation Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 146 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