Oregon · Nonprofit
PREDATOR DEFENSE
PREDATOR DEFENSE (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,440 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($184,529). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $704k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Predator Defense does
Mission
Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
GENERAL: Ongoing nationwide advocacy, litigation, and public outreach to end America's brutal, unscientific and counter-productive war on essential native predators--wolves, coyotes, cougars, bears, bobcats, and more. We work with the public, media, elected officials, state and federal wildlife agency personnel, and environmental/conservation groups to stop the wrongful maligning, persecuting and killing of native predators. This has become even more urgent, due to the extinction crisis. We promote science-based evidence that management of native predators via killing is counter-productive and provide common-sense approaches for people to co-exist with wildlife. Specific work includes: Joining litigation to protect native predators. Collaborating with researchers, groups, governmental agencies, elected officials and others to improve our ability to reform policies and promote non-lethal predator control solutions. Collaborating with wildlife scientists to share results of their research to a broader audience. Working with journalists on in-depth articles and features. Engaging, educating, and galvanizing the public to action on the issues via social media, email, and print…
$174,086 spent89% of program spendingENDING PREDATOR KILLING: BANNING WILDLIFE TRAPS & POISONS: In 2024 we followed up on our prior work creating a West Coast free of M-44 cyanide bombs and our historic 2023 victory banning them on the 245 million acres of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. We expanded our push by asking federal officials for an M-44 ban on the U.S. Forest Service's 193 million acres of public lands. In this process we learned that-thanks to all our nonstop pressure over the years-quietly, behind the scenes, no M-44s had been deployed by USDA Wildlife Services on Forest Service lands since 2021. Wildlife Services was also currently prohibited from any M-44 activity other than removing devices, including on private lands, via a 2024 appropriations bill. This was incredible news, but is not a permanent ban, not all devices have been removed, and the ban can be undone by Congress. So we continue working to support federal legislation to ban M-44s on all federal, state and local public lands. This remains a public safety issue, as even those who don't care about wildlife do care about their children and their dogs. STOPPING USDA WILDLIFE SERVICES: Continued our ongoing work to…
$9,685 spent5% of program spendingWOLF PROTECTION - In 2024 we continued supporting the legal push to protect wolves in the Western U.S. We joined in as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's determination that the roughly 2,700 gray wolves in the western U.S.-which represents an effective population of roughly 243 in terms of genetic diversity-are not threatened by small populations size, limited connectivity, high levels of human-caused mortality, a significant amount of lost historic range, and other cumulative threats. The case is moving forward, with a hearing and decision expected in 2025. In April 2024 we called for a boycott of Wyoming after the state grabbed international headlines, due to a resident who ran down a wolf with his snowmobile and tortured her for hours before killing her. The only punishment the state administered was a fine of $250. We urged Wyoming to do the right thing--severely punish him for animal cruelty and utterly reform their barbaric wildlife policies. They have not yet taken meaningful action, so we continued to press, urging the public to join. Their response was massive-both live via hearings and via social media-but so far Wyoming has refused to…
$11,129 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $194,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $74k to $178k (+142%).
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.
100% of PREDATOR DEFENSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Brooks Fahy
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $75k → $202k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 PREDATOR DEFENSE’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
PREDATOR DEFENSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 PREDATOR DEFENSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 59% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 52% · 2022 50% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of PREDATOR DEFENSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
PREDATOR DEFENSE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $294k 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.
Against its field
PREDATOR DEFENSE has grown faster than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PREDATOR DEFENSE
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
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 PREDATOR DEFENSE: 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 PREDATOR DEFENSE?
- PREDATOR DEFENSE (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,440 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($184,529). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PREDATOR DEFENSE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $704,440 in grants to PREDATOR DEFENSE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PREDATOR DEFENSE?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $184,529 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PREDATOR DEFENSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 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