Texas · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL
CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,313 to it, the largest being THE HORNE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $336k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $197k
What Conservation Centers for Species Survival does
Mission
Providing leadership in studying and creating self-sustaining, secure populations in captivity and in the wild for some of the world's most endangered species.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sustainability programs: linking conservation breeding centers within the program to their counterparts in the range country, supporting and growing the quality and quantity of the species wherever it occurs.
$233,396 spentof which $175,000 as grants100% of program spendingSource population alliance: completed proof of concept genomics assessments to determine low and high diversity herds, gathering data and build framework for metapopulation modelling, and designed economics study.
Partnership for species: providing leadership in studying and creating self-sustaining, secure populations in captivity and in the wild for some of the world's most endangered species.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $233,396.
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 2020 to 2021, from $270k to $86k (−68%).
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: 2019 34% · 2020 40% · 2021 45% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Steve Shurter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $8k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fossil Rim Wildlife Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL raised.
From the IRS filings of CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL’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
CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 89% — 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
0% of CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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 FY2022, 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
CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of the Interior$771k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$581k
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 CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL?
- CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,313 to it, the largest being THE HORNE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $65,313 in grants to CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL?
- THE HORNE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION CENTERS FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 10 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