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THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,981 to it, the largest being GOOD SHEPHERD FUND-IMA-MAIN ($82,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $138k
What The Center for Conservation Biology does
Mission
Mission statement: our mission is to provide the global community with the information needed to drive thoughtful, science-based conservation, to educate and train the next generation of conservation scientists, and to make lasting contributions to the natural world through critical thinking, innovation, and ground-breaking research on birds. Additional information about cc: The Center for Conservation Biology inc (ccb inc) is a supporting organization for the academic institution known as The Center for Conservation Biology at the college of william and mary. Ccb inc builds needed funds to support institutional needs, student research, and current research program needs at ccb. All funds collected by ccb inc are used to directly support research, conservation,and education programs primarily managed through the academic organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research programs: ccb research projects support the broader conservation community on a daily basis. Research findings and products are used to develop wildlife policy, to implement management strategies, to protect imperiled species and to manage at-risk populations. Research and management activities during 2025 have included deploying transmitters on bald eagles around military installations, have surveyed nesting eagles across four states, have surveyed more than 1,000 pairs of osprey within the chesapeake bay to better understand reproductive deficits related to atlantic menhaden, have initiated a tracking study of willets throughout their annual cycle, have managed the federally endangered red- cockaded woodpecker population in virginia, have managed the state endangered peregrine falcon population, have worked with winter marsh sparrows in georgia and have worked with many passerine species. Since the fall of 1992, ccb has completed 1,000+ projects throughout the western hemisphere focused on making the world a better place for birds and people.
$4,758 spent100% of program spendingEducation programs: ccb's education programs focus on undergraduate and graduate training, public outreach, and public engagement and citizen learning. Since the fall of 1992, ccb has involved hundreds of university students in direct research. In 2025, ccb supported 5 undergraduate students to participate in field projects. Ccb biologists made several public presentations to public and research audiences. These presentations have covered a diverse range of topics that provide timely information to move conservation awareness forward. We have contributed to more than 40 media stories focused on public outreach on sensitive conservation topics. We have published several articles within scientific journals that have contributed to the management and research communities' understanding of species of conservation concern, public policy, and land-use. We produce a quarterly electronic newsletter that is distributed to more than 10,500 individuals and a printed annual report that is mailed to more than 700 individuals.
Information/advisory services: ccb has provided thousands of pro bono services to government agencies, ngos, and corporate partners focused on species conservation. The virginia bald eagle nest locator alone receives more than 30,000 visits per year as part of the permitting process related to eagle management. Ccb biologists field dozens of phone calls, messages, and meetings per week that are intended to assist government agencies in making appropriate conservation decisions. During 2025 we made several out of state trips to assist with conservation meetings and have given several online presentations.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,758.
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 2023 to 2024, from $124k to $134k (+9%).
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.
100% of THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $51k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY’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
THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 86% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,290 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,290 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
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 Virginia
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY?
- THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,981 to it, the largest being GOOD SHEPHERD FUND-IMA-MAIN ($82,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $113,981 in grants to THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY?
- GOOD SHEPHERD FUND-IMA-MAIN is the largest funder on record, with $82,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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