New York · Nonprofit
PANTHERA CORPORATION
PANTHERA CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,822,099 to it, the largest being MERCURY FOUNDATION ($7,500,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Panthera Corporation does
Mission
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. Panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lion - panthera combines an understanding of lion ecology in human dominated landscapes with techniques that provide local communities with the ability and incentive to avoid conflict with lions. In addition, panthera also works to curtail widespread wire-snare poaching, which is pervasive in many key lion landscapes, including kafue np (zambia) and niokolo-koba np (senegal).
$4,283,916 spentof which $318,931 as grants17% of program spendingLeopard - panthera conducts long-term, citizen-science-based monitoring at flagship sites such as south africa's sabi sands game reserve and supports the southern african leopard monitoring program across south africa, namibia, zambia, and zimbabwe to guide patrol efforts and wildlife corridors. Through its furs for life and saving spots demand-reduction initiatives, panthera has produced and distributed over 18,500 synthetic leopard furs for use in traditional ceremonies, reducing demand for authentic skins and saving countless leopards. In partnership with the royal commission for alula, panthera's arabian leopard initiative works to rescue the critically endangered arabian leopard.
$4,162,892 spentof which $3,473 as grants16% of program spendingJaguar - panthera utilizes a range-wide approach focusing on the entire spectrum of species influences and dynamics, including prey, key populations, threat mitigation, education and building genetic corridors in which jaguars can move safely. Panthera works closely with ranchers to develop methods and models to demonstrate that cattle ranching and jaguar conservation can co-exist, just as they work with engineers and developers to design roads that allow for easier passage of jaguars and other wildlife.
$2,723,867 spentof which $631,191 as grants11% of program spendingTiger - panthera, through various individual programs, seeks to increase wild tiger populations by at least 50% across key sites over the next decade. In addition, panthera identifies and creates safe corridors for the species to move between core populations.puma - panthera is working to better understand and protect pumas in the western u.s. (especially the olympic peninsula in washington state) and in the torres del paine national park region in the chilean patagonia. Panthera's work includes utilizing innovative camera technology to observe the secret social lives of pumas, characterizing dispersal dynamics and impediments, and mitigating human-puma conflict. A range-wide assessment of the status of pumas, from patagonia to british columbia is also underway. Small cats - panthera also works to understand and conserve the 33 species of small wild cats. Priorities for this program are to focus on the least understood cats, to enhance current data collection on big cat study sites to gather small cat data, and to strategically establish new sites of high conservation value for small cats. A brief summary of panthera's cross-cutting programs and initiatives:conservation technology…
$14,140,181 spentof which $860,226 as grants56% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,310,856.
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 $17M to $25M (+47%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 6% · 2022 9% · 2023 4% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PANTHERA CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Frederic Launay
President/CEO
Board chair
Jonathan Ayers
Director/chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $788k → $4.3M.
26 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 PANTHERA CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
PANTHERA CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% 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 PANTHERA CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 17% · 2021 30% · 2022 38% · 2023 24% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of PANTHERA CORPORATION'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
PANTHERA CORPORATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
PANTHERA CORPORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding PANTHERA CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.9M on record.
- Department of State$10.9M
- Department of the Interior$3.9M
- Department of Agriculture$101k
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 PANTHERA CORPORATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 17 related entities
- Panthera Wildlife Trust Ltd · exempt
- Panthera Brasil · exempt
- Fundacion Pantera Colombia · exempt
- Panthera Wild Cat Conservation Zambia Limited · exempt
- Panthera Wildcat Conservation Sa · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION?
- PANTHERA CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,822,099 to it, the largest being MERCURY FOUNDATION ($7,500,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PANTHERA CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $33,822,099 in grants to PANTHERA CORPORATION, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PANTHERA CORPORATION?
- MERCURY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PANTHERA CORPORATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 125 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