New York · Nonprofit
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA (New York) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,761,730 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,851,767). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA does
Mission
The mission of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA is to support the work of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya with financial, professional and other resources, and to serve as a catalyst for propagating the practice of community conservation across East Africa and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lewa USA supports Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya and other partner organizations that serve its mission. Lewa Wild Life Conservancy works as a model and catalyst for the conservation of wildlife and its habitat. It does this through the protection and management of species, the initiation and support of community conservation and development programs, and the education of neighboring areas in the value of wildlife.
$3,489,176 spentof which $3,346,015 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,489,176.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $7.6M to $9.3M (+23%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 24 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $711k → $1.6M.
24 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 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
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 32% · 2019 34% · 2020 21% · 2021 15% · 2022 19% · 2023 37% — 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
43% of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
50% of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA'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 $5.9M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $137k on record.
- Department of the Interior$137k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Lewa Wildlife Conservancy 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lewa Wildlife Conservancy 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 Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA?
- Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA (New York) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,761,730 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,851,767). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $11,761,730 in grants to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,851,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 110 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