California · Nonprofit
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $391,751 to it, the largest being AHIMSA FOUNDATION ($115,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $939k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $392k
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Elephant Aid International does
Mission
Elephant Aid International is a nonprofit organization creating innovative approaches to elephant care and rehabilitation worldwide through education, collaboration, and hands-on assistance. Eai also provides a natural habitat refuge for retired elephants in the u.s., working to end elephant suffering one elephant at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We provided a variety of education programs to dozens of schools, clubs, organizations, and individuals in the united states, and asia, including providing expert consulting and advice on elephant behavior and biology to students, teachers, governments, and other nonprofit organizations, internationally. We provided printed materials used in schools in the united states, india, sri lanka, thailand, and nepal, and also provided volunteer and intern opportunities to more than 100 people.
$14,165 spent4% of program spendingIn 2016, we established elephant refuge north america on 850 rural acres in south georgia, usa, to benefit old, sick, and needy elephants retired from zoos and circuses. This project provides a natural habitat environment where captive-held elephants can recover from past traumas and develop healthy bonds with caregivers and other retired elephants. This project improves elephant welfare through collaboration with local and international governments, private owners, and elephant caregivers. We will continue to provide education about captive-held elephants worldwide and advocate for improved standards and practices.
$372,928 spent95% of program spendingProject asia. We are unique in our ability to bring about change both in the immediate and long-term. It is effective because it starts with a deep respect for the culture and the realities of life for elephants in asia. By offering hands-on care such as pedicures, teaching humane training methods, improving stable hygeine, designing and building solar-powered chain-free corrals, and providing coats and food for hungry elephants, we quickly make the lives of captive elephants better. We build sustainability into work in two ways: first by partnering with respected ngos and second, by ensuring that mahouts and elepahnt owners have the knowledge and resources they need to maintain the improvements.
$4,901 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $391,994.
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.
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 $4.8M to $6.7M (+38%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Carol Buckly
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $36k → $102k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL’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
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
86% 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 ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 34% · 2019 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 42% — 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 ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL'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
56% of ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL'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 $171k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL: 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 ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL?
- ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $391,751 to it, the largest being AHIMSA FOUNDATION ($115,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $391,751 in grants to ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL?
- AHIMSA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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