California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF WILDCARE
FRIENDS OF WILDCARE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,006,885 to it, the largest being THE BENIFICUS FOUNDATION ($2,006,885). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What Friends of Wildcare does
Mission
Friends of WildCare holds assets and raises funds for building a new animal care/education facility for WildCare, a not-for-profit wildlife hospital, nature education center and wildlife advocacy organization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Whereas the new facility and funding were well underway by the end of the fiscal year, and the purpose of Friends of Wildcare had been substantially accomplished, Friends of Wildcare was merged with wildcare as of september 30, 2024. This is the final form 990.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $6.4M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Vaughn R Maurice
Audit chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $600k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wildcare). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF WILDCARE raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF WILDCARE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF WILDCARE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF WILDCARE
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wildcare · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF WILDCARE: 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 WILDCARE?
- FRIENDS OF WILDCARE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,006,885 to it, the largest being THE BENIFICUS FOUNDATION ($2,006,885). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF WILDCARE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,006,885 in grants to FRIENDS OF WILDCARE.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF WILDCARE?
- THE BENIFICUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,006,885 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF WILDCARE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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