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12 funders with a record of paying for “carnivore”
Where the money went
Largest: $142,000 to AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — fund for managing large carnivores in majete wildlife reserve 2024
Largest: $25,000 to OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY — conserving elusive carnivores in old-growth forests through research, education, and outreach
Largest: $70,000 to PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES — environmental - carnivore coexistence in the high divide 2023
Ncasi FoundationCary, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $3.2M · through 2024Largest: $865,862 to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC — retained structures forestry experiment (manipulating retained structures to improve wildlife value),technical work to improve the science and risk assessment processes in national…
Largest: $70,000 to HEART OF THE ROCKIES — carnivore conflict prevention
Largest: $388,627 to HOUSTON ZOO INC — to provide support for niassa carnivore project's anti-poaching work in the niassa national reserve, mozambique.
Largest: $198,914 to WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK — niassa carnivore project-phase 2, mozambique (year 1 of 3)
Largest: $200,000 to Tulsa Zoo Management Inc — african wilds: carnivores campaign
The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable TrustCrystal Lake, IL
3 matching grants · $37,000 · through 2024Largest: $13,000 to Wild Animal Sanctuary — provide funds to help support and maintain more than 450 lions tigers bears leopards mountain lions wolves & other large carnivores; it is the largest carnivore sanctuary in the wo…
Food Export Association of the Midwest USAChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $529,331 to CARNIVORE MEAT LLC — map atp rapp program
Animal Welfare InstituteWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $117,800 · through 2024Largest: $45,000 to PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES — animal protection
Largest: $35,000 to CARNIVORE PRESERVATION INC - CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE — to help fund the recipient's operating budget
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →