Virginia · Nonprofit
ELEPHANT PROJECT
ELEPHANT PROJECT (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,376 to it, the largest being AIYANA FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $-2546
What Elephant Project does
Mission
The Elephant Project has developed new ideas and new solutions to address the threats to elephant survival, providing them a new future free of cruelty and death at the hands of humans. Our three-prong strategy is designed to provide immediate protections to elephants while developing long-term sustainable solutions to end this epic struggle. PRONG 1. End the market for ivory and other elephant parts and the inhumane treatment of elephants PRONG 2. End human-elephant conflicts PRONG 3. Develop humane economies that will provide perpetual funding for the care and protection of wild and captive elephants
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
PRONG 1. End the market for ivory and other elephant parts and the inhumane treatment of elephants: Through our educational arm, The Elephant Times, we conducted research on the activities that contribute to the cruelty and killing of elephants - FOIA requests, legal activities, and surveys. We also provided educational information through The Elephant Times to individuals, governments and NGOs through blogs, books, podcasts, films and documentaries, the Horton series of educational cartoons, speeches, social digital and online activities.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $93.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 PROJECT’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 PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ELEPHANT PROJECT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Against its field
ELEPHANT PROJECT receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $62k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,012 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
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In Virginia
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELEPHANT PROJECT?
- ELEPHANT PROJECT (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,376 to it, the largest being AIYANA FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELEPHANT PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $62,376 in grants to ELEPHANT PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELEPHANT PROJECT?
- AIYANA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELEPHANT PROJECT 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 5 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