Holtzman Wildlife Foundation

About Holtzman Wildlife Foundation

Holtzman Wildlife Foundation’s recorded giving is centered on wildlife conservation projects that combine direct field support with facilities, equipment, and media. Its largest recent grant was $125,000 to Oceanic Preservation Society for a film that offers solutions to the plastic pollution problem, which points to a strong interest in public-facing conservation storytelling. Other grants show a similar pattern of project-specific support for endangered species and marine ecosystems, including funding for a wildlife veterinary hospital through Caf America and support for marine turtle mitigation through MarAlliance. The foundation’s portfolio also includes work tied to anti-poaching, species reintroduction, and rehabilitation, with grants touching tapirs, African wild dogs, vultures, pangolins, and yellow-headed Amazon parrots. That mix suggests a funder that backs conservation infrastructure and outreach rather than broad unrestricted operating support. Most of the grants recorded are at a standardized level of $25,000, reinforcing a project-grant approach built around discrete interventions with defined purposes. Across the available records, Holtzman Wildlife Foundation gives to organizations working on both terrestrial and marine wildlife issues, with a clear emphasis on endangered species and problem-solving conservation work.

What Holtzman Wildlife Foundation Funds

The foundation gives across several tightly defined conservation themes. In marine work, it awarded $25,000 to MarAlliance for a project to mitigate threats to marine turtles in Belize and Honduras, linking funding to species protection in coastal ecosystems. In anti-poaching and habitat security, it gave $25,000 to Rewild for a project to stop poaching of tapirs in Costa Rica, and another $25,000 to Bushlife Conservancy for construction of a permanent base in Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park to prevent the poaching of endangered species. The foundation also funds veterinary and rehabilitation capacity: Caf America received $25,000 to support a veterinary clinic serving vultures in South Africa, and The Belize Zoo and Neotropical Conservancy received $10,000 for veterinary equipment to rehabilitate endangered wildlife in Belize. A separate grant of $25,000 to Friends of Belize Bird Rescue supported repopulation of the yellow headed Amazon parrot.

How Holtzman Wildlife Foundation Gives