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BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC

BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,244 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($407,470). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$672k
Net assets
$3.7M
9/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Big Cat Habitat Conservation and Education Center Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to provide a safe, loving, and permanent home for exotic and domestic animals in need and to educate our guests on the importance of species preservation to ensure the survival of these magnificent animals for future generations. We are firmly committed to keeping alive the human-animal connection in our world and in our community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fed and provided shelter for rescued animals and provided awareness throughout the community.

  2. Provided food and healthcare for rescued animals

    $1,068,346 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,068,346.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($932k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 125 ($1.5M) Expenses 138 ($1.3M) Net assets 112 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 180 ($2.2M) Expenses 140 ($1.3M) Net assets 208 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 99 ($1.2M) Expenses 146 ($1.4M) Net assets 203 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 128 ($1.6M) Expenses 164 ($1.5M) Net assets 235 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 148 ($1.8M) Expenses 197 ($1.8M) Net assets 229 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 126 ($1.5M) Expenses 221 ($2.1M) Net assets 194 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 156 ($1.9M) Expenses 193 ($1.8M) Net assets 202 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 194 ($2.4M) Expenses 190 ($1.8M) Net assets 240 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (190)Net assets (240)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.5M to $3.9M (+56%).

$1.5M
$2.5M
$3.9M
$3.8M
$4.2M
$4.0M
$3.4M
$3.4M
$4.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$278k
’17
$221k
’18
$869k
’19
−$171k
’20
$20k
’21
−$44k
’22
−$540k
’23
$86k
’24
$583k
’25
14
months of
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.

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Listed776555552
Joined·+0+2+0+0+3+0+0·
No longer listed·0310300·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $54k → $4k.

6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC’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

BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69% 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 BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC.

61%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 87% · 2019 89% · 2020 77% · 2021 34% · 2022 54% · 2023 58% — 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

50% of BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

69% of BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC'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 $208k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 10 states.

WI
NY
IN
OH
RI
KY
DE
TN
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $465k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · above the median
Months of reserve14.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 40%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC?
BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,244 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($407,470). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $672,244 in grants to BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $407,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG CAT HABITAT CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC find more funders?
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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 18 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