Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
City Wildlife Inc
City Wildlife Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,017,958 to it, the largest being LYNN COURTNEY FOUNDATION ($221,021). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $954k
What City Wildlife Inc does
Mission
The goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild places for animal habitat.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: City Wildlifes Rehabilitation Center cared for more than 1,800 sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals in 2024. Patients included wild birds - raptors, waterfowl, and songbirds - small mammals, and native reptiles and amphibians. Many were Species of Greatest Conservation Need in the District of Columbia. City Wildlifes goal is to release healthy animals back to the wild. The Center, open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., is staffed by a full-time wildlife veterinarian with the assistance of licensed wildlife rehabilitators. Protecting wildlife: Most of our patients injuries are caused directly or indirectly by human activities. We work to heal the animals in our clinic, but also to connect with people in a way that advances understanding and compassion for wildlife. With each patient intake and phone call, we share helpful information about our wildlife neighbors, build understanding, promote compassion, and dispel concerns. Protecting people: Our wildlife rehabilitation program serves as a sentinel for detecting zoonotic disease in wildlife. It also provides a place for people to bring distressed wild animals whom they might otherwise try to care…
$747,909 spentof which $7,550 as grants100% of program spendingEducation Programs: City Wildlife educates and supports the community in furtherance of our mission. In 2025, we received more than 5,000 calls and emails requesting advice with animals. We also provided wildlife education in local schools, held regular online seminars, and maintained active educational social media accounts.
Lights Out DC: Lights Out DC, an all-volunteer participatory science program, works with residents, owners, and managers of buildings in Washington, DC, to reduce bird/glass collisions. During spring and fall bird migration seasons, volunteers collect dead and injured birds - more than 6,500 since 2010 - that have hit glass, document these collisions, and make recommendations to residents and businesses to reduce nighttime lighting and install bird-safe features. Injured birds are taken to our Rehabilitation Center. Dead birds are donated for research. Using LODC data, City Wildlife led efforts to pass a new District of Columbia bill requiring bird-safe glass and design on all new construction and substantial external renovations of buildings. The bill went into effect in January 2024.
Duck Watch:Duck Watch seasonal staff and volunteers assist urban waterfowl by monitoring nests, teaching people how to protect nests, and helping Mallard hens get their ducklings safely to water. When Mallard families are trapped on roofs or balconies, or in courtyards, they capture them and transport them to water. In 2024, Duck Watch helped almost 700 ducklings stay with their mothers.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $747,909.
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 $532k to $784k (+47%).
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: 2017 51% · 2018 46% · 2019 45% · 2020 37% · 2021 38% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% · 2024 23% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of City Wildlife Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Chief executive
Lorraine Docherty
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $52k → $155k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 City Wildlife Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
City Wildlife Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 City Wildlife Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 44% · 2019 28% · 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — 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
73% of City Wildlife Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
67% of City Wildlife Inc's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $480k 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
City Wildlife Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like City Wildlife Inc
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for City Wildlife Inc: 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 City Wildlife Inc?
- City Wildlife Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,017,958 to it, the largest being LYNN COURTNEY FOUNDATION ($221,021). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does City Wildlife Inc have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,017,958 in grants to City Wildlife Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of City Wildlife Inc?
- LYNN COURTNEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $221,021 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like City Wildlife Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 39 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