California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC
FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,908 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Friends of San Diego Wildlife Refuges Inc does
Mission
The friends of san diego wildlife refuges is a non-profit citizens organization dedicated to supporting conservation and promoting awareness and appreciation of the national wildlife refuges of san diego county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The friends of san diego refuges initiated the 5th & iris project in 2021 in partnership with the us department of fish & wildlife and the california parks department to enhance visitor engagement, education, and enrichment at the tijuana estuary. This programs initial focus in on the trail intersection at 5th and iris and the visitor center. The overall timeframe for this program is 3 to 5 years.
$13,760 spent100% of program spendingThe organization helps administer and acts as a transfer agent for u.s. Fish and wildlife service programs and california state parks programs for the national wildlife refuges of san diego county. Also, the organization assists in implemention of youth outreach and education programs conducted by u.s. Fish and wildlife service. In addition, the organization assists in the operation of a california state park bookstore at the tijuana river national estuary.
$19,200 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,760.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.0M to $3.3M (+11%).
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.
2% of FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $36k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES 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
FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% — 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
FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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
FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $163k on record.
- Department of the Interior$163k
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 FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES 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 FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC?
- FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,908 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,908 in grants to FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SAN DIEGO WILDLIFE REFUGES INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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