North Carolina · Nonprofit
Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary
Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,688 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($202,090). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $358k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary does
Mission
The mission of Possumwood Animal Wildlife Sanctuary is to educate the public about and to promote understanding of the local wildlife and their habitats; To provide a wild animal facility for the rescue, treatment, and release of sick, injured, and orphaned native wildlife; To increase awareness of and appreciation for the value of wildlife and the environment and to protect these natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided care and treatment for approximately 1820 injured and orphaned wildlife, rescued domestic waterfowl. Served approximately 16,800 members of the community through the following programs: Treatment/care skills training for students and interns using hands-on experience Job skills training and experience for SkillBridge participants Programs to schools and public events about wildlife safety, environment,and conservation Animal-handling therapy to special-needs students, neurodivergent or autistic individuals Environmental Education, Public Safety Awareness, and Career Days both on and off-site.
$167,815 spent$375 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $167,815.
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 $132k to $1.1M (+711%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 30% · 2019 30% · 2020 3% · 2022 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary’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. 3 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
Antonia ONeil
Executive Director Board Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $24k → $48k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 Possumwood Acres Wildlife 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
Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 67% · 2019 76% · 2020 96% · 2021 64% · 2022 40% · 2023 49% — 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
50% of Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
73% of Possumwood Acres Wildlife 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 $97k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k 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
Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Possumwood Acres Wildlife 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 North Carolina
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
91%
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 Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary: 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 Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary?
- Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,688 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($202,090). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $357,688 in grants to Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary?
- NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $202,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 9 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