Dazzle Africa

What it reported doing in 2025

Dazzle africa's mission is to partner with local organizations to provide programs in conservation, education, and community development. The organization aims to ensure that future generations are self-sufficient and iconic african wildlife thrive. With our partners, we've provided water for 28,000 residents, sponsored 45 students to pursue education, and invested over 4 million dollars in local conservation and community initiatives through our three program pillars of conservation, college education, and clean water. Zambia's south luangwa national park and the entire luangwa valley are home to an incredible diversity of wildlife, including many endangered species. This large, unfenced landscape serves as an essential protected haven for biodiversity, increasingly uncommon in africa and around the world. However, wildlife in the area face critical threats. Poaching poses a major danger to many species, as the wire snares commonly used by poachers indiscriminately target all animals in an area. Many animals lose their lives to snares and other poaching methods every year in the luangwa valley. As communities expand, these biodiverse areas are also experiencing more human-wildlife conflict as residents try to provide for their families. Dazzle africa supports conservation south luangwa to protect vulnerable and threatened species through anti-poaching measures. The ground patrol teams covered a total of 59,815 km in 2025 across patrols of various lengths, including hundreds of deployments covering multiple days in the bush. This tireless work led to apprehension of 130 wildlife crime suspects, confiscation of 703 kg of bushmeat, and recovery of 297 snares. As an example of their impact, the k9 unit alone in 2025 supported in recovering 23 firearms and 90 kilograms of bushmeat, and conducted 201 operations searching buildings and vehicles. Dazzle africa supports a radio program, the conservation hour radio show, that is a joint project of conservation partners zcp, csl, and chipembele wildlife education trust (a local environmental education organization based in the south luangwa area). Dazzle africa collaborates with our partners conservation south luangwa and zambian carnivore programme to fund the first full-time wildlife veterinarian in south luangwa valley, dr. Mwamba sichande. His work is crucial for saving wildlife in south luangwa national park and the surrounding area through rescue operations and community-based veterinary work. In 2025, the veterinary team de-snared a total of 14 animals in the field, and helped deploy 15 collars on wild dogs and 6 on lions, in addition to replacing collars that have been previously deployed. In the realm of domestic animals, the team treated 844 animals in rural communities, and 461 animals at the base clinic in mfuwe. 103 dogs and cats were spayed and neutered, and 844 were vaccinated against rabies, protecting both domestic and wild animals. Dr. Sichande and his team also serve domestic animals with vaccinations, spay and neuter surgeries, and other medical care. Dazzle africa assists in operational funding for the aerial program in south luangwa national park used for anti-poaching operations and large carnivore research. Thanks to this program, 51% of the park and 7% of the neighboring game management areas were covered by antipoaching surveillance over 91.7 flight hours by the aerial team. These flights allowed the team to identify 109 points along poaching routes and 4 poacher camps, plus other signs of illegal activity. We also fund a critical helicopter program for conservation south luangwa in south luangwa valley, zambia. This ongoing program allows rapid patrol deployment at the scenes of poaching incidents and year-round ability to monitor protected areas, both deterring poaching. In 2025, the helicopter team covered 63% of the national park over 152 flying hours. From these helicopter operations, the team apprehended 9 poaching suspects, confiscated 11 firearms, and i

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: $13.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Fail
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.84; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings