Maryland · Nonprofit
MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (Maryland) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,200,747 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($920,750). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $781k
What MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project does
Mission
The non-profit MGVP, Inc., is an international veterinary team dedicated to saving the lives of Central Africas endangered mountain and Grauers gorillas through veterinary medicine and science using a One Health approach. MGVP, Inc. treats wild human-habituated gorillas suffering from life-threatening injury and illness, conducts gorilla health, emerging infectious and zoonotic disease research, facilitates preventive health care for the people who work in the national parks who come into close contact with the gorillas; and raises partner and societal awareness for the importance of the One Health approach to gorilla conservation. Gorilla Doctors implements its mission in Rwanda, DR Congo and Uganda. For more information visit www.gorilladoctors.org.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mountain and Grauers gorilla veterinary care MGVP, Inc. staff is comprised of 13 veterinarians and several additional technical and administrative support staff. Our veterinarians perform routine health checks, veterinary monitoring visits and clinical interventions to treat ill and injured human-habituated mountain and Grauers gorillas living in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gorilla rescue MGVP, Inc. also assists wildlife authorities with provision of emergency care to infant gorillas and other primates confiscated from poachers and manages the health of orphaned mountain gorillas in captivity.Research and surveillance The organization maintains a comprehensive database on gorilla health, and conducts wildlife health surveillance and research on eastern gorillas and sympatric wildlife and emerging infectious diseases at the gorilla/human interface.
$1,833,728 spent100% of program spendingEmerging wildlife zoonotic pathogen surveillance - mgvp is a subrecipient on a usaid grant to the university of california, davis for implementation of the emerging pandemic threats (predict) project, the objectives of predict are to detect and describe viruses in wildlife, primarily primates, bats and rodents, that have the potential to infect people, and to better understand the ecological and behavioral drivers of spillover of viruses from wildlife to people. Mgvp, inc. Implements predict in rwanda, uganda and eastern democratic republic of congo. Our veterinians capture live wildlife to obtain samples and work with laboratory partners to screen samples for viruses. Mgvp, inc. Is also a recipient of us fish and wildlife service funding to study parasites causing gastrointestinal disease in mountain gorillas in rwanda, and a us embassy rwanda grant to improve hygiene infrastructure and practices around volcanoes national park, rwanda.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,833,728.
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 2024 to 2025, from $494k to $1.7M (+236%).
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: 2017 45% · 2018 47% · 2019 29% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Board chair
Deborah Dunham
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $290k → $807k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 55% · 2019 38% · 2020 23% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 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
40% of MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.1M
- Department of the Interior$319k
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 MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: 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 MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project?
- MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (Maryland) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,200,747 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($920,750). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,200,747 in grants to MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $920,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 34 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