Nevada · Nonprofit
Animal Ark Incorporated
Animal Ark Incorporated (Nevada) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,577 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($233,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $912k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Animal Ark Incorporated does
Mission
Operate a nature center and wildlife sanctuary to provide educational programs for vistors, opportunities to aid in conversation efforts, and permanent care for the orphaned, confiscated, and non-releaseable wildlife that do not have the skills to survive in the wild.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The primary goal of the organization is to feed, shelter and care for the orphaned, unwanted, confiscated or permanently disabled animals under the santuarys protection. In additon the organization has partnered with various workd-wide animals protection organizations to foster convservation. The organization provides a haven for animals which otherwise would have been euthanized for lack of appropriate and available care. The organizations 38 acre nature center provides the animals with a habitat similar to that found in their native environments, including trees, rocks and ponds. The center is run by dedicated staff and over 40 volunteers and animal keepers. Since its inception in 1982 the animal has cared for over 175 animals.
$571,337 spent$826,985 earned by the program76% of program spendingThe organization provides education to over twenty one thousand people who visit the sanctuary each year. The organization offers educational programs to local school districts, private schools, day care centers, scouts and the general public. Visitors to the wildlife sanctuary are given the opportunity to view the animals in their natural surroundings, take guided tours with one of the organizations specially trained volunteers, as well as to attend special events featuring guest speakers, lectures by animal keepers, and animal and bird demonstrations and exhibitions. All of these are designed to foster an understanding of all things wild.
$184,259 spent$266,707 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $755,596.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $2.8M (+32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Animal Ark Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Teresa Owens
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $74k → $71k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Animal Ark Incorporated’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Animal Ark Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Animal Ark Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 58% · 2021 68% · 2022 62% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of Animal Ark Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of Animal Ark Incorporated's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $407k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Nevada, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Animal Ark Incorporated holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Animal Ark Incorporated
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Animal Ark Incorporated: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Animal Ark Incorporated?
- Animal Ark Incorporated (Nevada) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,577 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($233,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Animal Ark Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $911,577 in grants to Animal Ark Incorporated, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Animal Ark Incorporated?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $233,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Animal Ark Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing