Texas · Nonprofit
Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home)
Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,750 to it, the largest being Severns Family Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) does
Mission
Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (ZWCF) seeks to build a future where wildlife and communities can thrive together, creating a healthier, more sustainable and more resilient environment for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
ZWCF works with community and conservation partners in Zambia to carry out impactful wildlife and community projects in key protected areas such as Game Management Areas adjacent to North and South Luangwa National Parks and Kafue National Park. During 2025, ZWCF awarded grants for projects dedicated to protecting the wildlife and habitats of South Luangwa National Park including anti-poaching operations as well as community, educational and environmental projects for local villages.
$140,000 spentof which $140,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $140,000.
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 2021 to 2022, from $86k to $36k (−58%).
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 Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home)’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
Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 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
Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) has grown faster than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home)
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home): 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 Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home)?
- Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,750 to it, the largest being Severns Family Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,750 in grants to Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home).
- Who is the largest funder of Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home)?
- Severns Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Zambia Wildlife and Community Foundation (FKA Friends of Charity Begins at Home) 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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