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Private foundation (trust)EIN 851044731Est. 2021-08

Catmosphere Foundation Inc

Sterling, VA 201648604

Total Assets

$667K

FY 2024

Annual Giving

$50K

FY 2024

Grants Made

1

FY 2024

Avg Grant

$50K

FY 2024

Grant Range

$50K–$50K

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Deadlines

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Programs & Activities

Program 1

$789K

Catwalk Campaign Sponsorship and promotion of Catwalk, a global mass participation walk that took place on 10th February 2024 as an acknowledgement to the campaign team's success in securing the world's first every International Day of the Arabian Leopard from the United Nations. The pre-campaign work resulted in over 100,000 people in 119 countries participating in the third ever Catwalk. Invaluable to this success was outreach to over 50 partners in multiple countries. Awareness raising through social media and educational toolkits and website was ongoing throughout 2024 both before and after the date of the event.

Program 2

$764K

Wave Wave is an inclusive collective action initiative, dedicated to ocean regeneration.The initiative ambition of ocean regeneration within a human generation is delivered by an international team comprising ocean scientists, blue economists, data analysts, programmers, innovation framework creators alongside the awareness-raising campaigners that have previously worked on Catwalks. Wave's methodology is to sit at the intersection of campaigning and grassroots mobilisation, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral engagement, actionable data and insights, and ocean innovation and blue tech. Wave propagates changes by amplifying and uniting the individual actions and impact of a wide array of over 30 partners and stakeholders located around the world.

Program 3

$295K

Arabian Leopard Day In the context of Catmosphere creating the supporting submission that secured the United Nation's recognition of the International Day of the Arabian Leopard, activities in 2024 including awareness-raising through social media and traditional media, as well as in person and virtual meetings in countries all over the world. Catmosphere's leadership team also curated, organised and participating in a day-long session including panel discussions that took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The session included multiple country representatives and conservation stakeholders who spoke about related topics to acknowledge this unprecedented day (also being the first time ever that the United Nations recognised an international day for a mammal and a subspecies).

Program 4

$147K

Conservation Conversations Conservation Conversations is Catmosphere Foundation's latest initiative, convening a curious community for bold conversations about wildlife and natural heritage conservation. This can range from a single evening panel discussion and networking session to a conference model lasting several days with hundreds of people. The preparation for this initiative took place throughout 2024 and included concept creation, naming, branding, fund-raising outreach and planning for the inaugural event, due to take place in 2025.

Focus Areas

Animal-Related

Financial Snapshot

2024 filing

Total Revenue

$1M

Total Expenses

$2.1M

Qualifying Distributions

$2.1M

Distributable Amount

$24K

Min. Investment Return

$24K

Payout rate 100%Arc chart showing what share of IRS distributable amount was paid out as qualifying distributions in the latest filing.100%

Payout rate

Qualifying distributions as a share of distributable amount.

Giving Over Time

3 years

Giving over time from 2022 to 2024. Peak $85K in 2023. Hover bars for details.

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Top Recipients

9 grants

Friends of the Nat'l Zoo DBA Conservation Nation
$60K
2 grants
OPEN STARTUP INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
$50K
1 grant
TAFISA (The Association for International Sport For All)
$32K
2 grants
Zoological Society of London
$30K
1 grant
Peace and Sport
$14K
2 grants
Africa Massive
$1K
1 grant

Grant Size Distribution

9 grants

<$10K
3
grants
$10–50K
6
grants
$50–250K
$250K–1M
$1–5M
$5M+

Geographic Focus

2 states

District of Columbia
$60K
55% of total
New York
$50K
45% of total

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