Florida · Nonprofit
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,381,964 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($700,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Great Plains Conservation Foundation does
Mission
To conserve and expand natural habitats in africa through innovative conservation initiatives with a long-term commitment to the environment, wildlife, and local communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Project rewild is focused on the translocation of wildlife into the lower zambezi valley, where due to historic poaching, wildlife numbers declined significantly. In 2022 we launched our first effort to translocate elephants on a large scale, with 101 elephants are now free in the sapi reserve. Within each group we collared each herd matriarch, not only to protect individual animals but also to research, learn and contribute to the body of knowledge around successful elephant translocations. We are developing mapping of elephant ranges now to understand where we can accommodate elephants in a rewilding program on a very large scale. This program includes the construction of a research camp and security and monitoring camp within the 132,000 hectare area.
$968,303 spentof which $17,150 as grants36% of program spendingRhinos without borders has been instrumental in the relocation of 87 rhinos from south africa into the botswana wilderness. There are 3 core breeding herds and over the past 6 years 68 new calves have been born. The program covers the full cost of pretranslocation quarantine costs and all licensing costs, transportation costs, release costs, and post-release security and monitoring. The foundation covers thec osts of two monitoring teams who are based clsoe to the breeding herds, the costs ofa central monitoring station, telemetry equipment, and satelite tracking of the rhinos. This has ensured that the herds are managed and relocated away from high-risk areas. Poaching risk has risen in the last year in botswana and the constant on the ground monitoring combined with aerial observation and satelite tracking has significantly reduced the threat. Monitoring teams consistently engage with the community to educate on the benefits of a diverse wildlife population and the commericial benefits which flow from employment opportunities in the tourism sector.
$428,998 spent16% of program spendingAs our work with project ranger has made abundantly clear, conservation areas need boots (and eyes and ears) on the ground. At the same time, a central mission within the foundation is empowering women. These were the inspirations behind the foundation's female ranger units. These all-female units will act as natural resource monitors, gathering essential data about the areas they patrol and will act as early detection forces against illegal wildlife crime. Hiring female wildlife and natural resource monitors builds their capacity as individuals and empowers the communities they represent. The foundation's female ranger units also offer opportunities to shift gender stereotypes, empower vulnerable women, and establish strong female role models for young girls. The longterm conservation impact of this project is equally powerful; female rangers will help foster the community buy-in necessary to preserve africa's most precious biodiversity. We employ a team of 20 female rangers/biodiversity monitors across botswana and zimbabwe and the team continues to grow.
$235,638 spent9% of program spendingGreat plains' on-going and historical work on elephants has emphasized preserving land and migratory corridors. This has included areas liek the mbirikani group ranch, home to great plains' ol donyo lodge and some of kenya's last super tuskers as well as the selinda reserve in botswana where great plains ended hunting nearly 15 years ago. Our project ranger grantees are working tirelessly to protect elephants across the continent and it is time for us to do what we can for elephants in otehr regions as well. In 2022, we launched our first effort to translocate elephants ona large scale, starting in zimbabwe. 101 elephants are now free in the sapi reserve, with a collar on each herd matriarch, giving us an uprecedented opportunity not only to protect individual animals but also to research, learn and contribute to the body of knowledge around successful elephant translocations. We are developing mapping of elephant ranges now to understand where we can accomodate elephants in a rewilding program on a very large scale.project ranger began in 2020 as a respone to the global covid-19 pandemic. Project ranger provided emergency poaching prevention initiatives, as travel and tourism to…
$1,027,536 spentof which $857,437 as grants$1,199,283 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,660,475.
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 $6.1M to $7.7M (+27%).
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.
50% of GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $112k → $499k.
19 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 70% · 2019 91% · 2020 57% · 2021 30% · 2022 42% · 2023 40% — 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
29% of GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
54% of GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M 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.
Against its field
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Conservation Investments Holdings Ltd · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,381,964 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($700,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,381,964 in grants to GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 59 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