Arcus Foundation

The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. Specifically, Arcus works to advance LGBT equality, as well as to conserve and protect the great apes.

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Stories of Impact

Read real-life stories of how our grantees and partners are helping realize great ape conservation at home and abroad.

  1. Prospects Improve for U.S. Captive Apes (continued)

    Sanctuary alliance aims to raise North American standards

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  2. African Chimp Finds New Home in Florida

    After being kept as a household pet in Ohio for about 40 years, Clyde, a chimpanzee shipped from an unknown location in Africa, was rescued and provided a new home at the Center for Great Apes in Florida.

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  3. Prospects Improve for U.S. Captive Apes

    Hundreds of United States-based chimpanzees look set to be taken out of research programs and moved into more appropriate care settings, following recommendations made in a recent report by the U.S. government’s principal medical research agency.

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  4. Mountain Gorilla Numbers Show Big Increase

    A census carried out in March and April 2010 in Central Africa’s Virunga Massif has shown a very encouraging increase in the population of mountain gorillas in the area in the past seven years.

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  5. Confiscation in Walikale

    The Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project works to improve the sustainability of mountain gorillas in the wild. Read Dr. Jan Ramer's blog post recounting a dangerous and heroic rescue in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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What We Support

The creation of a more just and humane world, based on diversity, equality, and fundamental respect.

The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing conservation issues. Specifically, Arcus works to conserve and protect the great apes through three program areas:
  1. Great Apes in the Wild
  2. Great Apes in Captivity
  3. Great Apes & Ethics

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Grants

The Arcus Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that supports organizations around the world working to conserve and protect the great apes.

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Awarded Grants

African Conservation Foundation
Washington, DC $95,000

Animal Protection of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM $100,000

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