Idaho · Nonprofit
RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST
RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST (Idaho) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,228 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($22,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Raptor Chapter Inc Birds of Prey Northwest does
Mission
The organization was founded in 1993 for the dual purpose of providing medical care to injured wild birds of prey and education of the public about these federally protected birds.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
While these birds are protected, no agency support funds these activities the caring of injured birds and is often left to private charities. Annually we treat 100-150 injured wild raptors admitted from the public and state agencies in need of our medical and housing services. When we (Don and Jane Veltkamp, volunteer board members) are off- site, we hire help to care for the birds of prey in our care. These university students receive education as well as training and are offered a small stipend.Maintenance operations go on 365 days a year as we care for the up to 50 raptors, keep records, respond to emergency calls. Daily food preparation, feeding and food procurement are required for these special predatory birds of prey. Obtaining predatory the bird food supply is critical. Service accomplishments increase each year to meet public demands and birds admitted. Each year more educational birds are added to our teaching team and the request for our unique programs continues. It is yet to be determined how many children are inspired to conserve these magnificent birds of prey and how many of our rehabilitated patients returned to the wild to live along life. While intangible to…
$68,121 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,121.
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 2019 to 2020, from $126k to $81k (−36%).
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 RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Don Veltkamp
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8 → $67.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST’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
RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 86% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
76% of RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Idaho, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST?
- RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST (Idaho) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,228 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($22,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $52,228 in grants to RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST?
- Innovia Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $22,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAPTOR CHAPTER INC BIRDS OF PREY NORTHWEST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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