Oregon · Nonprofit
SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE
SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $931,213 to it, the largest being ARCUS FOUNDATION ($450,159). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $931k
- Net assets
- $181k
What Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue does
Mission
To provide sanctuary for chimpanzee orphans in cameroon while spearheading and supporting habitat protection, law enforcement and conservation education programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Chimpanzee rescue: located in cameroons remote mbargue forest, Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue provides sanctuary in a natural habitat environment for confiscated chimpanzees. The sanctuary residents have all been orphaned by poachers supplying the illegal bushmeat and live animal trades. When a poacher kills a mother chimpanzee, her nursing infant can be sold alive as a pet in cameroon or smuggled out to meet the growing demand for african wildlife in asian zoos. Some of the eighty resident chimpanzees at the center have been confiscated as infants from poachers or dealers, and others have suffered on chains or in small cages for decades before their rescue. At our sanctuary, which is committed to lifelong care, the emotionally damaged chimpanzees eventually find friendship and joy in adoptive social groups. They enjoy large enclosure complexes that include tracts of natural habitat forest protected with solar-powered electric fencing. In addition to our nine chimpanzee enclosure complexes, which together include over forty acres of enclosed forest, the grounds of sanaga-yong rescue center include a vet clinic, diagnostic lab, staff and volunteer housing, visitor lodging, kitchen…
$414,624 spent94% of program spendingConservation: Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue plays a vital role in conservation through promotion and support of law enforcement, habitat protection and education/sensitization. By providing a permanent home for confiscated chimpanzees, as well as technical and logistical assistance for authorities during confiscations, we enable enforcement of laws against trafficking. To stop the poaching of endangered wildlife, Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue has worked for years with government partners and community leaders to create the wall-mbargue wildlife reserve in the beautiful forest surrounding our sanctuary. We sponsor sustainable agriculture/ agroforestry programs aimed at replenishing depleted farmland and decreasing slash and burn of forests for subsistence agriculture by village farmers. Our visitor and outreach programs focus on increasing awareness about chimpanzees' intelligence and emotional capacity, their similarity to humans, their endangered status and the laws against exploiting them. Educating the children of cameroon is critical to creating change for future generations of chimpanzees and other endangered animals. We published a childrens book in 2015, je protg les…
$14,224 spent3% of program spendingCommunity development: Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescues relationship with the local community is intrinsically linked to the survival of great apes, and we work to increase the engagement of people through employment opportunities and programs that improve their lives. We employ local residents at the sanctuary; support a village market economy, which didn't exist before, with our purchases of fruits and vegetables; sponsor sustainable agriculture and agroforestry programs that serve conservation while keeping farms productive and improving the diets of local children; and promote childhood literacy by contributing to the salaries of eight school teachers in surrounding community schools.
$10,226 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $439,074.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $109k to $219k (+101%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Sheri Speede
Exec director/pres.
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $19k → $131k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE’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
SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 69% · 2019 83% · 2020 46% · 2021 44% · 2022 67% · 2023 57% — 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
60% of SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE: 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 SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE?
- SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $931,213 to it, the largest being ARCUS FOUNDATION ($450,159). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $931,213 in grants to SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE?
- ARCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,159 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANAGA-YONG CHIMPANZEE RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 19 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