Community
Thriving communities
When conservation brings clean water, school meals, healthcare and jobs to the villages next to wild places, protecting wildlife becomes everyone's cause.
Fiscal sponsorship · Community conservation
Conservation led by communities
We partner with local conservation groups, in the US and abroad, as their US 501(c)(3), so their American supporters can give tax‑deductible gifts and more reaches the ground.
How it works
From first conversation to funds on the ground
We get to know your project
Your work, your registration, your board and how you report on spending. US law requires us to check every partner against sanctions lists.
We sign a grant agreement
It sets out the conservation purposes your supporters' gifts can fund, how often we make grants and what you report back to us. You read and sign it online, on your dashboard.
Your supporters give through us
You get your own donation page, and supporters can also give by check or wire. Every donor gets a tax receipt from Save the Animals straight away.
We make grants to your project
Gifts are held in a restricted fund for your project and granted out on a regular schedule. Your dashboard shows every gift and every grant as it happens.
What we partner to fund
Community conservation, funded on the ground
Wildlife lasts where the people living alongside it benefit from protecting it. We partner with local organizations to fund the community-led work that makes that true.
Coexistence
Living with wildlife
Water for wildlife through the dry season, and practical ways to keep crops, livestock and families safe when elephants and predators come close.
Protection
Scouts on the ground
Local scouts who know the land best, patrolling against poaching and snaring, with the training, kit and pay that keep them in the field.
Why community conservation
Fences and patrols can't do it alone
Elephants, lions and wild dogs don't stay inside park boundaries. They move across land that people farm, graze and live on. Protection lasts when those communities have a say in how wildlife is managed and a share in what it brings.
The organizations doing this work are often small and local: based far from the US, or in the US but without 501(c)(3) status of their own. We give their American supporters a simple, tax-deductible way to help, so more of every dollar reaches the ground.
What partners get
A US home for your supporters
Tax-deductible giving
Gifts to Save the Animals, a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 93-4394120), are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, so your US supporters can give with confidence.
Your own donation page
A page for your project on savetheanimals.shop, with monthly and one-time giving. Donors can direct a gift to a part of your work you choose, each with its own photo and description.
Instant tax receipts
We receipt every gift the moment it arrives, from Save the Animals, so you never have to issue one.
Year-end statements
Every January, each donor gets one statement listing all of their gifts for the year, ready for their taxes.
Your own partner dashboard
Sign in any time to see every gift as it arrives, every grant we've sent and the fee on each. Sort, filter and download it all as a spreadsheet.
New gift alerts
An email the moment a gift arrives, with who gave and how to reach them, so you can say thank you while it matters.
Pledges and designations
Record supporters' pledges and watch them fill as payments arrive. Add, rename and archive what donors can give to, live on your page within a minute.
Reports and your team
Upload a short report twice a year, with a reminder from us when one is due. Add colleagues yourself, each with their own sign-in.
See it in action
Your partner dashboard
Every gift, every grant and every report in one place, plus the emails that keep you and your donors in the loop. Shown here with sample data.
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Fees
Lean, so more reaches the ground
Two simple rates. They cover receipting, donor records, grant administration, due diligence and our annual filings with the IRS.
Online, by card
5%
Card processing included
$95 of every $100 goes to your project
By check or wire
3%
No card processing
$97 of every $100 goes to your project
- No setup fee
- No annual fee
- No minimum
Card processing comes out of our 5%, never out of your gifts.
Who we work with
Partners rooted in their communities
Community-led
Projects where local people help decide the work and share in its benefits: scouts, conservancies, coexistence, education and livelihoods.
Registered and accountable
A nonprofit, trust or similar body registered where it works (in the US, a nonprofit without 501(c)(3) status of its own is welcome), with its own board or trustees and accounts it can share with us.
Willing to report back
A short report twice a year on how grants were spent, with a few photos and stories. Upload it from your dashboard. It takes minutes, and it keeps your supporters close.
Comfortable with our oversight
US law requires that Save the Animals keeps final say over how gifts are granted. In practice, we agree the purposes up front and check that grants are used for them.
Partner with us
Running a community conservation project?
Tell us about your work and your supporters in the US. We'll reply personally, usually within a few days.
Talk to us about a partnership →