Colorado · Nonprofit
PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL
PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,004 to it, the largest being Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation ($18,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Penguins International does
Mission
Scientific; Wildlife Preservation, Protection
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Wildlife public eduction and awareness - Provide education to the general public and schools to advance conservation support for threatened and endangered wildlife.
$10,473 spent76% of program spendingWildlife research (penguins) - perform fieldsite research for scientific purposes and best conservation practices for threatened and endangered wildlife.
$90 spent1% of program spendingWildlife conservation (penguins) - perform fieldsite duties to protect and conserve threatened wildlife.
$3,151 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,714.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $34k to $55k (+61%).
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.
97% of PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
David Schutt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $600 → $4k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL’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
PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 62% · 2022 81% · 2023 84% — 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
57% of PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL: 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 PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL?
- PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,004 to it, the largest being Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation ($18,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $44,004 in grants to PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL?
- Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENGUINS INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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