Texas · Nonprofit
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,268,212 to it, the largest being Safari Learning Center LLC ($916,790). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 95 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared funders
- Camp Fire Conservation Fund Incportfolio match
- Sacramento Zoological Societyportfolio match
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.
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 5% · 2022 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $150k → $449k.
13 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Safari Club International); $42k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Safari Club International Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
61% 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 SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 30% · 2019 27% · 2020 19% · 2021 53% · 2022 69% · 2023 22% — 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
47% of SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 51 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Camp Fire Conservation Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Living Desert Theportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Zoo Management Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reid Burns Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbus Zoological Park Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zoological Society of San Diegoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Derek Wang Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- President and Fellows of Harvard Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 89 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Safari Club International · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,268,212 to it, the largest being Safari Learning Center LLC ($916,790). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $4,268,212 in grants to SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- Safari Learning Center LLC is the largest funder on record, with $916,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 51funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing