Maine · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,240 to it, the largest being TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $596k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $349k
- Net assets
- $-46275
What Center for Wildlife Studies does
Mission
To provide accessible environmental education and promote wildlife conservation through science.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Science - cws science continued to advance its work in wildlife health, epidemiology, and marine mammal conservation. The program also expanded research efforts in turtle ecology and forensics, as well as black bear demographic studies, providing valuable insights to support the conservation and management of these species in maine.
$299,369 spent$232,207 earned by the program56% of program spendingEducation - cws education trained hundreds of researchers, resource management professionals, conservation specialists, environmental educators, and graduate and undergraduate students through a variety of course formats-including online, in-person, and hybrid offerings. Topics covered included applied quantitative ecology, geographic information science, conservation planning, research and management methods, and ecology. In addition, we successfully completed the first year of our professional certificate program in applied quantitative ecology.
$231,388 spent$310,125 earned by the program44% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $530,757.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $25k to $65k (+155%).
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: 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $267k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES’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
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES'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 $99k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $149k on record — $148k federal, $915 state.
- Department of Agriculture$75k
- Department of Commerce$73k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$915
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES: 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 CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES?
- CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,240 to it, the largest being TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $349,240 in grants to CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES?
- TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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