California · Nonprofit
Apex Protection Project
Apex Protection Project (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,784 to it, the largest being DEXTRA BALDWIN MCGONAGLE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $652k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $284k
- Net assets
- $713k
What Apex Protection Project does
Mission
Apex Protection Project is dedicated to protecting wolves and wolfdogs through educational experiences, rescue and advocacy with the dream of living in a world where wolf and all species are highly valued, protected and respected for the balance they bring to the ecosystem and for the gifts they offer to humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2024, Apex Protection Project continued its mission of rescuing, rehabilitating, educating, and advocating for wolves and wolfdogs through a number of significant initiatives. The organization coordinated the rescue of 16 wolfdogs from the Barstow Animal Shelter and arranged their safe transport to qualified rescue organizations and sanctuaries in Colorado, Wisconsin, and Northern California. Apex also secured the release of seven wolfdog puppies and six adult wolfdogs confiscated during a law enforcement operation, placing all of the puppies in Qualified homes and transporting the adults to Oregon, where the organization raised the funds necessary to build a new enclosure for their long-term care. In another rescue effort, Apex saved six wolfdogs from a hoarding situation in Northern California. Two of these animals were brought to Apex, where a new enclosure was constructed to provide them with permanent care. One wolfdog required several months of rehabilitation before being transported to a qualified sanctuary in New Mexico, while the remaining animals were placed with approved rescue organizations and permanent homes. Apex also rescued a wolfdog named Wolfy from a…
$527,185 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $527,185.
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 2023 to 2024, from $377k to $724k (+92%).
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: 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Apex Protection Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Todd George
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $38k.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Apex Protection Project’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
Apex Protection Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
40% 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 Apex Protection Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 57% · 2020 66% · 2021 90% · 2022 86% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of Apex Protection Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
Apex Protection Project draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Apex Protection Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Apex Protection Project
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Apex Protection Project: 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 Apex Protection Project?
- Apex Protection Project (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,784 to it, the largest being DEXTRA BALDWIN MCGONAGLE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Apex Protection Project have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $283,784 in grants to Apex Protection Project, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Apex Protection Project?
- DEXTRA BALDWIN MCGONAGLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Apex Protection Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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