Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER
IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,852 to it, the largest being MARGARET RUTH BOYS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($240,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $412k
- Net assets
- $684k
What Iowa Wildlife Center does
Mission
Wildlife rehabilitation including training and education.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATION ABOUT WILDLIFE, REHABILITATION AND HABITAT STEWARDSHIP: An estimated 1500 people were reached through 23 programs, events or booths, often using a combination of our wild education animals to assist in the education message. Numerous hits on our website wree indicated through the increased number of volunteers who found us through that resource. Our Facebook page grew the number of "friends" who liked us.WILDLIFE ASSISTANCE SKILLS TRAINING: We trained several volunteers to care for IWC animals, and held two training sessions for a few other rehadbilitators and apprentices; we networked with many other licensed wildlife rehabilitators on improving care of injured, orphaned or sick wildlife via email and phone.
$83,287 spent100% of program spendingWILDLIFE REHABILITATION: We handled phone calls for approximately 500 wild animals of 23 species. Most animals were either networked to other rehabilitators, were reunited with their parents or did not need rescued. IWC received several animals of different species. Of those, some were transferred to other rehabilitators.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,287.
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 2022 to 2023, from $449k to $684k (+52%).
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.
99% of IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $248k.
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 IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER’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
IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% — 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
93% of IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k 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
IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,282 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,282 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER: 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 IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER?
- IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,852 to it, the largest being MARGARET RUTH BOYS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($240,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $411,852 in grants to IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER?
- MARGARET RUTH BOYS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA WILDLIFE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing