Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Jul 1962.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
83 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
92 people listed on the 990; $6.5M paid to officers and key staff.
Kaddu Sebunya’s $495K as Chief Executive Officer is at the 88th percentile of top reported officer pay among 225 $10–100M animals nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaddu Sebunya | $495,414 | $475,008 | $379,393 | $440,437 | $366,290 | $325,690 |
| Richard Holly | $249,430 | $247,641 | $244,466 | $235,690 | $220,690 | $148,043 |
| Eric Coppenger | $243,000 | $239,014 | $203,225 | $186,950 | $166,774 | $153,700 |
| Charly Facheux | $235,180 | $230,857 | $221,155 | $220,086 | $209,768 | $193,225 |
| Lindsay Kosnik | — | $231,257 | $225,451 | $223,146 | $205,990 | $196,140 |
| Beth Foster | $217,708 | $211,290 | $154,864 | — | — | — |
| Nicole Engdahl | $213,062 | $144,985 | — | — | — | — |
| Amy Gossow | $212,625 | $152,985 | — | — | — | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See African Wildlife Foundation executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2Yes
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Protects African wildlife and wildlands for a thriving future.
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National and landscape level conservation programsin kenya, work focused on rangeland restoration and coexistence. Water security remained central in the tsavomkomazi landscape where awf worked with communities to restore catchments and improve access to freshwater for people and wildlife, while also launching an ambitious partnership…
National and landscape level conservation programsin kenya, work focused on rangeland restoration and coexistence. Water security remained central in the tsavomkomazi landscape where awf worked with communities to restore catchments and improve access to freshwater for people and wildlife, while also launching an ambitious partnership…
Pan african programsthrough a collaboration with peacenexus, awf advanced rights-based and conflict-sensitive approaches with indigenous and local communities and wildlife authorities across multiple countries.
Pan african programsthrough a collaboration with peacenexus, awf advanced rights-based and conflict-sensitive approaches with indigenous and local communities and wildlife authorities across multiple countries.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
Federal money
The auditor reported no findings.
The auditor reported 2 findings: a weakness in money controls.
The auditor reported 5 findings: a weakness in money controls.
The auditor reported no findings.
By the numbers
The FY2025 990, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Feb 17, 2026 | $37.3M | $37.8M | −$475K | $42.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024Filed with the IRS Feb 14, 2025 | $38.6M | $34.3M | $4.3M | $41.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS May 10, 2024 | $33.7M | $36.7M | −$2.9M | $36.0M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Apr 28, 2023 | $34.2M | $39.2M | −$5.0M | $37.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS May 5, 2022 | $32.9M | $32.4M | $479K | $48.2M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Mar 16, 2021 | $31.1M | $28.3M | $2.8M | $42.9M | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2025 990 (1 part)
Part VI · Governance 31 of 32 board members independent, 1 to look at
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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