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OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY

OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,242 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($65,365). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$368k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$168k
Net assets
$797k
6/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Open Door Bird Sanctuary does

Mission

Wildlife education and raptor housing

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. On site education, field trips, and offsite programing

    $780 spent$73,314 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $780.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($165k)2018 Revenue 182 ($130k) Expenses 490 ($173k) Net assets 152 ($251k)2019 Revenue 201 ($143k) Expenses 251 ($89k) Net assets 198 ($326k)2020 Revenue 151 ($108k) Expenses 197 ($69k) Net assets 222 ($365k)2021 Revenue 247 ($176k) Expenses 186 ($66k) Net assets 264 ($435k)2022 Revenue 258 ($184k) Expenses 369 ($130k) Net assets 297 ($489k)2023 Revenue 389 ($277k) Expenses 403 ($142k) Net assets 354 ($583k)2024 Revenue 414 ($296k) Expenses 708 ($250k) Net assets 413 ($680k)2025 Revenue 516 ($368k) Expenses 713 ($251k) Net assets 484 ($797k)
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Revenue (516)Expenses (713)Net assets (484)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $691k to $817k (+18%).

$165k
$275k
$326k
$365k
$435k
$495k
$583k
$691k
$817k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’17
−$42k
’18
$55k
’19
$39k
’20
$111k
’21
$54k
’22
$135k
’23
$46k
’24
$117k
’25
4.1
months of
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

Richard Burton

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed1107
Joined··+0
No longer listed··3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $17k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY’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

OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY.

39%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 35% · 2020 99% · 2021 45% · 2022 42% · 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

13% of OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

56% of OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY'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 $74k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 6 states.

MN
IL
WI
NJ
MO
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 98%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY?
OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,242 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($65,365). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $168,242 in grants to OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY?
DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 18 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