Florida · Nonprofit
Mad Dog Initiative
Mad Dog Initiative (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,751 to it, the largest being DR ABIGAIL ROSS FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED ($79,652). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $0
What Mad Dog Initiative does
Mission
Charitable
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Lincoln Park Zoo Grant. Training multiple graduate students and providing graduate student support and all necessary equipment and supplies for Malagasy students in Madagascar. Five Malagasy graduate student PhD projects were covered by this grant, including all of their field work expenses, including equipment.
$63,554 spentof which $63,554 as grants59% of program spendingThe Dr. Abigail Ross Foundation for Applied Conservation - Grant to fund free field schools for Malagasy students, graduate students, and veterinarians. Over 70 students in Madagascar directly benefited from these programs.
$23,762 spentof which $23,762 as grants22% of program spendingReWild Grant. Native corridor reforestation, purchase of native seedlings at a negotiated rate of $1 per seedling (includes transport). Purchased and planted 19980 native seedlings at a rate of 1500 seedlings per ha for a total replanting of 13.32 ha of native forest. This corridor, when complete at 150 ha, will reconnect two of Madagascar's flagship protected areas - Andasibe and Mantadia National Parks.
$19,980 spentof which $19,980 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $107,296.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $21k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dr Kim Valenta
co-founder, executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Mad Dog Initiative’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
Mad Dog Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 Mad Dog Initiative.
“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
Mad Dog Initiative draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Mad Dog Initiative
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.
Public support
100%
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 Mad Dog Initiative: 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 Mad Dog Initiative?
- Mad Dog Initiative (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,751 to it, the largest being DR ABIGAIL ROSS FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED ($79,652). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mad Dog Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $184,751 in grants to Mad Dog Initiative, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mad Dog Initiative?
- DR ABIGAIL ROSS FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED is the largest funder on record, with $79,652 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mad Dog Initiative 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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