Ohio · Nonprofit
OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER
OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,632,245 to it, the largest being Columbus Jewish Foundation ($656,510). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Ohio Wildlife Center does
Mission
Ohio Wildlife Center is dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciation of ohio's native wildlife through rehabilitation, education, and wildlife health studies. The center is the state's largest, donation-supported wildlife hospital and is a leader for wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. Nearly 8,700 injured, ill, or orphaned wildlife are presented to Ohio Wildlife Center for rehabilitation care from more than 60 of the 88 counties in ohio.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wildlife rehabilitation:caring for ill, injured, and orphaned wildlife with the goal of their healthy release back into the wild is the primary mission of Ohio Wildlife Center. In 2025, the center admitted 8,700 animals for care,the center partners with its team of volunteers and local correctional \institutions to provide care for admitted animals offsite. Patients require regular ongoing feeding, quiet surroundings, and care. The center's pre-release facility replicates natural environments for animals on the last leg of their journey. Staff and volunteers provide basic needs like food and monitor animals for key behaviors to ensure they are healthy and capable of being released back to the wild.wildlife & conservation education programsOhio Wildlife Center strives to instill a greater appreciation and understanding of wild animals and can help prevent harmful interactions thus reducing the number of animals admitted to its donation-based animal hospital.Ohio Wildlife Center offers education programs for all ages. Programs are offered both on and offsite with a focus on reducing community wildlife conflicts through an appreciation of native species. In 2025, Ohio Wildlife Center…
$1,139,315 spent$363,829 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,139,315.
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 $4.4M to $5.6M (+28%).
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: 2021 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Heather Tuttle
Executive director
Board chair
Melissa Muth
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $179k → $243k.
15 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 35% · 2019 51% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 36% — 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
59% of OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
58% of OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OHIO 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 OHIO 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 OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER?
- OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,632,245 to it, the largest being Columbus Jewish Foundation ($656,510). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,632,245 in grants to OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER?
- Columbus Jewish Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $656,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 48 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