California · Nonprofit
WILD AFRICA
WILD AFRICA (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,211,754 to it, the largest being WILDAID INC ($1,629,888). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Wild Africa does
Mission
Wild Africa fund is dedicated to raising awareness and promoting efforts that preserve africa's natural beauty and wildlife, as well as the communities that rely on it.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We are partnered with over 200 ambassadors from music, sports, film, tv, business, religion and government from nigeria, ghana, namibia, zimbabwe, somaliland, south africa, rwanda, and tanzania. We are building a pan-african media distribution network through more than 25 national and international broadcasters, as well as radio, newspaper, billboard and social media companies to promote conservation and other environmental issues through a range of programming.we seek to increase the demand for wildlife conservation by popularizing it and engaging a broad audience, especially youth. By giving a platform to high-profile, concerned africans and supporting on the ground efforts, we seek to engage urban populations in experiencing wildlife tourism, supporting effective modern wildlife laws and their active enforcement, and empowering local conservation projects. At the same time, we look to increase reporting of wildlife crime and to reduce the demand for illegal bushmeat, protecting endangered species and minimizing the risk of zoonotic disease. Finally, we aim to change human wildlife conflict into peaceful and beneficial coexistence and promote ways to reduce habitat degradation.
$1,571,304 spentof which $1,169,556 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,571,304.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $1.7M to $2.3M (+34%).
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.
105% of WILD AFRICA’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. 0 of the last 2 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
Peter Knights
Chair, CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 WILD AFRICA’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
WILD AFRICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 WILD AFRICA.
“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
97% of WILD AFRICA's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WILD AFRICA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WILD AFRICA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wild Africa Fund Npc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILD AFRICA: 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 WILD AFRICA?
- WILD AFRICA (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,211,754 to it, the largest being WILDAID INC ($1,629,888). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILD AFRICA have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,211,754 in grants to WILD AFRICA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILD AFRICA?
- WILDAID INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,629,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILD AFRICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 11 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