Illinois · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA
FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $408,625 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($140,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $409k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Friends of Conservation - Friends of the Masai Mara does
Mission
Friends of conservation is committed to preserving africa's endangered species and their unique ecosystems by improving the capabilities of the african people and their institutions so they may find sustainable economic balance between human and wildlife needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Wildlife & conservation programs, funding projects to preserve wildlife, educate local people about the importance of conservation and to monitor ecological systems.
$166,790 spent$910 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $166,790.
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.
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 $118k to $193k (+64%).
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 5% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Jorie Butler Kent
Chairman & director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $21k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA’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
FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 44% · 2022 53% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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 FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
83% of FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA'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 $69k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA?
- FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $408,625 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($140,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $408,625 in grants to FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS OF THE MASAI MARA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Friends of Conservation - Friends of the Masai Mara →
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 16 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