Indiana · Nonprofit
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,299,521 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,392,142). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 164
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Mara Elephant Project USA Inc does
Mission
To work to conserve elephants and the landscapes they live in, including their biodiversity, ecological function, and peaceful human-wildlife co-existence through support of programs and activities to foster I) applied conservation, ii) research, iii) technological development, iv) education, v) community development, vi) and public awareness within elephant range states and abroad.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization supports programs that work to increase protection for endangered wildlife in africa. Key among those is elephants, a keystone species that acts as a barometer for the health of an ecosystem. Contributing to programs that engage in action to address the short term threats to wildlife and wild spaces and pair it with research that discovers long-term solutions that involve engagement from indigenous communities is key to the organization's program support approach.
$5,198,231 spentof which $4,846,301 as grants$38,290 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,198,231.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $3.8M (+138%).
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.
99% of MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Claire Bolles
Exec director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 60 funders, grant income rose $9k → $908k.
19 of 164 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 164 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
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
64% 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 MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 69% · 2020 59% · 2021 29% · 2022 18% · 2023 47% — 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
26% of MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
62% of MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC'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 $2.7M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: 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 MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC?
- MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,299,521 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,392,142). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 164 organizations giving $7,299,521 in grants to MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,392,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 164 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