Georgia · Nonprofit
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 205 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,378,793 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,053,210). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 205
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc does
Mission
The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and their habitats, 3) Training the next generation of African scientists and conservationists, and 4) Helping local communities address their critical needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
RwandaThe Organization's state-of-the-art research and education center in Rwanda is accelerating the critical science and training needed for effective conservation. It serves as an educational hub and, since opening in Feb 2022, has hosted more than 130,000 visitors, including 22,000 schoolchildren. The Fossey Fund maintains its daily protection activities for 10 gorilla families in Rwanda, removing more than 1,500 illegal snares this year, and continues to expand its research program on both gorillas and the surrounding biodiversity. Community development programs focus on food security and livelihood initiatives, including livestock, food tree distributions and mushroom cultivation. The program has expanded to address the needs at a village level, reaching approximately 14,000 households, by providing financial support and technical assistance to 60 villages bordering Volcanoes National Park as they design and launch livelihood initiatives for a climate-resilient future. Community programs also focused on educational outreach and access through nature clubs, conservation camps and debates, guided tours, forest visits, teacher training and community leader engagement. The Girls…
$4,629,264 spentof which $384,438 as grants$269,854 earned by the program59% of program spendingDemocratic Republic of the CongoThe Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund protects Grauer's gorillas and biodiversity in the Nkuba Conservation Area (NCA) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a community-owned forest at the core of the species' remaining range. Since beginning work in the region in 2000, and in close partnership with Indigenous landowners since 2012, the Fossey Fund has helped create conservation coverage to more than 2,400 km of forest, supporting an estimated 2,000-3,000 Grauer's gorillas, eastern chimpanzees, and multiple other threatened species. The NCA stores an estimated 250 million tons of carbon and has experienced no known gorilla killings since the program began. Fossey Fund supports communities in securing legal recognition of their land through community forest concessions and holds a 25-year land management agreement to assist with long-term stewardship. The NCA has been recognized as a Key Biodiversity Area by the IUCN and is being evaluated as a model for IUCN's Other Effective Conservation Measures (OECMs).The program employs and trains local community members as wildlife trackers and field staff to conduct daily patrols, remove snares, monitor…
$3,246,891 spent41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,876,155.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $27M (+50%).
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 11% · 2020 1% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Tara Stoinski PhD
President & CEO
Board chair
Kristen Lukas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 44 funders to 89 funders, grant income rose $790k → $3.1M.
28 of 205 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 205 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
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 16% · 2019 26% · 2020 46% · 2021 31% · 2022 17% · 2023 30% — 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
50% of Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Government funding Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of the Interior$1.0M
- National Science Foundation$72k
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 Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International 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 Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc?
- Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 205 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,378,793 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,053,210). 124 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc have?
- IRS filings report 205 organizations giving $29,378,793 in grants to Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc, 124 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,053,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 205 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