Nevada · Nonprofit
SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (Nevada) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,879 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($143,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $646k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $696k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Safe Haven Wildlife Sanctuary does
Mission
1) to provide a non-profit rescue/rehabilitation center for injured/orphaned indigenous wildlife for release back into the wild. 2) to provide a non-profit permanent center for non-releasable and exotic animals. 3) to establish a non-profit educational program utilizing the animals, the center, and the local area schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides rescue and rehabilitation for injured and orphaned native wildlife for reintroduction and lifelong care to non-releasable big cats, bears and small wild felids. The majority of our rescues were previously owned pets, used in the entertainment industry, or surrendered or seized from roadside zoos and other substandard facilities. Safe haven has committed to providing lifelong care to 46 animals including several big cats from an international seizure. The organization is also providing lifelong care to big cats "retired" from accredited zoos, that previously were used in ssp breeding programs for the purpose of increasing genetic diversity to help increase wild populations for conservation puposes.
$701,345 spent72% of program spendingOur onsite and offsite educational presentations support the educational component of our mission. Our presentations place emphasis on the exotic pet trade and why wild animals are not appropriate as pets and their impact on wild populations. Our internship program provides graduates the opportunity to develop animal husbandry skills and support our educational outreach programs and tours. Grant funding and a fall/winter matching campaign supported the construction of a 40' x 100' temperature controlled building to provide emergency housing for the animals in the event of climate-related emergencies including excessive heat and wildfire smoke. The project was completed in 2023.
$278,819 spent28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $980,164.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $1.2M (−24%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SAFE HAVEN 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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $23k → $129k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 funders by total. 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
SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 28% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — 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
57% of SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
57% of SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY?
- SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (Nevada) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,879 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($143,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $695,879 in grants to SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $143,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 24 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