Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HELPING RHINOS USA
HELPING RHINOS USA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,565 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($149,305). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $502k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Helping Rhinos USA does
Mission
Helping Rhinos USA is dedicated to leading conservation and education initiatives that will ensure the long-term survival of rhino and other endangered wildlife in their natural habitat.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In collaboration with our partner company, helping rhinos uk, our online fundraising work engages with local communities, directly connects wildlife conservation and local economies through fundraising, accepting donations on our website, and personal solicitations through local fundraising events. All money raised will further field conservation actions where rhinos are most threatened, and our two most common beneficiaries of this general fundraising effort are ol pejeta conservancy in kenya (which has the largest single population of black rhinos in east africa, as well as the remaining northern white rhinos in existance) and the zululand rhino orphanage in south africa (an organization that cares for all the orphaned rhino babies in kwazulu-natal, where most of the rhino poaching events happen). When we fundraise for them by name, the money is considered restricted funds, but the revenue given in this activity is general, unrestricted fundraising that enables us to make large donations to these organizations.
$73,800 spentof which $70,500 as grants100% of program spendingHelping Rhinos USA provides financial support for the black mambas, an all-woman anti-poaching unit, who have created a unique model to address wildlife conservation. Hugely successful in both their peaceful protection operations and engaging education programs, the black mambas program has been expanded and brought into another area of the balule game reserve, which is nearby the world-famous kruger park. Additionally, six new mambas have been incorporated into the program. As such, the world's only all- woman unarmed anti-poaching unit has been expanded to cover the makkushane region as well. In addition, three of the mambas have been trained on using belgian malinois as tracker and canine protection while on patrol.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,800.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $74k to $23k (−70%).
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.
100% of HELPING RHINOS USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Simon Jones
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $78k.
5 of 12 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 HELPING RHINOS USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
HELPING RHINOS USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 HELPING RHINOS USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 68% · 2019 68% · 2020 52% · 2021 97% · 2022 38% · 2023 40% — 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 HELPING RHINOS USA'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
HELPING RHINOS USA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
HELPING RHINOS USA has grown faster than half of the 3,489 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,489 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HELPING RHINOS USA
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
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 HELPING RHINOS USA: 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 HELPING RHINOS USA?
- HELPING RHINOS USA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,565 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($149,305). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING RHINOS USA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $501,565 in grants to HELPING RHINOS USA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING RHINOS USA?
- GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $149,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING RHINOS USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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