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JRS Biodiversity Foundation: 38 grants to organizations, $2.2 million (tax year ended December 2024)
JRS Biodiversity Foundation, a private foundation in Arlington, VA, paid 38 grants to organizations totaling $2,195,626 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 14, 2025. The largest was $175,000 to Sanparks Scientific Services for for the project "overcoming pandemic threats to bioinformatics in south africa's national parks.".
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- EIN
- 231352035
- Based in
- Arlington, VA
- Assets
- $49,898,793
- Grants paid
- $2,195,626
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 14, 2025, IRS object ID 202533189349100028. It reported $2,195,626 in grants paid; 38 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanparks Scientific Services | Sedgefield, SF | For the project "overcoming pandemic threats to bioinformatics in south africa's national parks." | $175,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | For the project "freshwater biodiversity data of rivers of the lake victoria basin." | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic | Chicago, IL | Critical biodiversity surveys in the lake tanganyika and ruzizi river basins | Health care | $114,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Wildfowl Wetlands Trust | Slimbridge, UK | For the project "madagascar wetlands knowledge base." | $105,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Water Journalists Africa - Infonile | Mbarara, UG | For the project "nilewell: promoting trust of biodiversity information between scientists and communicators in the nile river basin." | $103,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bangui, CT | For the project "freshwater biodiversity data collection system (fbdc) for conservation and sustainable development of the northeast protected area complex (npac) in the central african republic." | $98,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Nature Uganda | Kampala, UG | For the project "training a cohort of herpetologists to increase data knowledge in uganda and build capacity for baseline herpetology surveys in key ecosystems of east africa." | $95,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Gaea Seychelles | Mahe, SE | For the project "developing a freshwater biodiversity information system for conservation and management in the seychelles." | $87,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Conservation Action Research Network | Topanga, CA | Aspire grant projects support for scholars in congo basin and albertine rift | $85,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Royal Botanic Gardens Kew | Richmond, UK | For the project "enhancing data access to transform guinea's capacity to identify and protect its threatened plants." | $76,145 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) | Nairobi, KE | For the project "increase knowledge, awareness and data accessibility for bee and dipteran pollinators, their forage plant species to support conservation of plant-pollinator interactions in cameroon. | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Freshwater Research Centre | Kommetjie, SF | In support of its work to expand research capacity and data access for the freshwater biodiversity information system (the "project or "fbis-2"). | $75,886 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Herbarium of Benin | Cotonou, BN | For the project "mobilizing data for identification, taxonomy, socioeconomic importance and conservation assessment of bryophytes in benin." | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Conserve Global | Pretoria, SF | The project will undertake ground sampling and surveys with remote sensing data to produce accurate vegetation and land cover maps, assess threats and document traditional knowledge and usage of plant | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hawassa University | Hawassa, ET | To generate information on insect pollinators diversity, share data openly and create awareness through platforms on food security and ecosystem health values of insect pollinators under different lan | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wildtracktswalu Foundation | Johannesburg, SF | The overarching goal is to develop a new technique that will provide a cost-effective and community-generated metric as an index to monitor biodiversity in africa. the benefits for partners will be eq | $55,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Namibian Chamber of Environment | Windhoek, WA | This project's primary aim is to bring together the widely scattered information and data on namibian near-endemic plants for the benefit of those entrusted with the conservation of the country's flor | $53,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Re Wild | Austin, TX | For project lost species african symposia for ugandan, tanzanian, and drc researchers | $52,933 | apps.irs.gov | |
| East African Wildlife Society | Nairobi, KE | For the project "unlocking biodiversity data to facilitate designation of lake of bolossat as the 7th ramsar site in kenya." | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Crane Foundation | Lusaka, ZA | For the project "designing and implementing an ecological monitoring plan and a wetland information system for the adaptive management of the kafue flats, zambia" | $45,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Museums of Kenya | Nairobi, KE | Implement a comprehensive inventory of bats in two caves in kenya, representing two types of caves. this will contribute to the use of scientific data to gain formal protection of caves through existi | $45,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Parakou Benin | Parakou, BN | For data mobilization and long-term conservation of wild edible fungi in benin. | $45,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Kabale University Uganda | Kabale, UG | For the project "site selection to protect papyrus endemic biodiversity in uganda." | $44,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute | Arusha, TZ | In support of its work "assessing landscape level impacts of climate change on montane forest pollinators in tanzania." | $43,443 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Namibia | Windhoek, WA | For the project "establishing capacity for sustained production of national spacial biodiversity data products: guiding progress towards the post-2020 global biodiversity framework goals." | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Museums of Kenya | Nairobi, KE | Illuminating understudied caves to highlight plant pollination and seed dispersal services by bats | $38,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Makerere University | Kampala, UG | 3rd international conference on geographical science for resilient communities, ecosystems and livelihoods under global environmental change | $36,380 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tanzania Forest Conservation Group | Dar Es Salaam, TZ | For the project "biodiversity data collection and training conservationists in east and west usambaras". | $31,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Bamenda University | Bamenda, CM | Conference on biodiversity and conservation for early career scientists | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Endangered Wildlife Trust | Wierda Park, SF | For the project "developing a 30-by-30 landscape planning tool for south africa that balances the need for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy. | $28,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) | Nairobi, KE | 2024 support for a session on bioinformatics at the bioeconomy summit | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Threatened Species Alliance | Kumasi, GH | Reinforcing the capacity for conservation science and planning for young west african conservationists. | $22,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tusk Trust | Gillingham, UK | Support to conservation symposium entitled: evolution and leadership in african conservation | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Conservation Society of Sierra Leone | Freetown, SL | Developing national key biodiversity area (kba) assessment protocol and evaluating the status of a pilot legacy | $17,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Northwest University South Africa | Potchesfstroom, SF | To support training and guides to build bee taxonomic capacity among citizen scientists in south africa. | $11,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Freshwater Research Centre | Kommetjie, SF | Payment amendment for: demand-driven, high impact expansion of the freshwater biodiversity information system, south africa | $9,873 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Iucn West and Central Africa Program | Dakar, SG | For the project "support for the sustainable management of databases for aquatic ecosystems in the chari-logone sub-basin" | $8,966 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sos Sahel USA Inc | Wilmington, DE | Niokolo-training and biodiversity surveys in koba national park buffer zone | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Health care | $114,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Florida | $150,000 |
| Illinois | $114,000 |
| California | $85,000 |
| Texas | $52,933 |
| Delaware | $3,000 |
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Updated November 14, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.