Kentucky · Nonprofit
SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER
SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER (Kentucky) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,191 to it, the largest being FRAZIER-JOY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($120,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $370k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $516k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Second Chances Wildlife Center does
Mission
Our mission is to foster compassion and environmental stewardship through education and rehabilitation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Second Chances Wildlife Center (scwc or the organization) provides hands-on education programs for preschool through adult. Many of these programs will include live animals that accompany the instructor. The organization can travel to your location or you can visit them at their new facility in mt. Washington, kentucky. The organization offers programs to the following groups: boy scouts, girl scouts, church groups, rotary clubs, libraries, camps, parks, and, of course, schools. Kentucky core academic standards are incorporated throughout each program. The programs also meet criteria for scout groups to earn a few badges.listed below are some various classes that may be presented.lha summer educamp:learn about kentucky wildlife, why it's important and how we care for wildlife both in our environment and at the center. We will offer educational and fun games, hands-on learning activities, outdoor activities, indoor free- exploration time, and snacks.programs ee series:the best practice for delivering environmental education programs and fostering environmental stewards is to spend time in environmental education programs. We offer a series of classes that touch base on several…
$233,317 spent100% of program spendingSecond Chances was founded in 2009 and is located on 23 acres just south of Louisville, in Mt Washington and serves the surrounding counties. The entire state of Kentucky and Southern Indiana utilizes Second Chances for specialized bat rehabilitation.Each year the organization cares for over one hundred injured, displaced, or orphaned wildlife animals. Many of them are babies that need round the clock intensive care. Some neonates come to the organization just days or even hours after birth with umbilical cords still attached. Some native mammal species that the organization takes in include skunks, opossums, flying squirrels, eastern grey and red squirrels, raccoons, mink, and bats, some of which are federally endangered. Staff personnel have special training in the rehabilitation of bats and work closely with Federal Fish and Wildlife bat biologists. The Organization rehabilitates bats from all over Kentucky. Approximately 90% of our patients are with the organization due to human encroachment in some way. The Organization deworms and vaccinates all animals before they are released.The average stay at the center depends on the heath of the animals. Should a healthy baby come in,…
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $233,317.
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 2018 to 2019, from $519k to $637k (+23%).
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 4% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER’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. 0 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 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $10k → $111k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER’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
SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
40% 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 SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 45% · 2019 53% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 47% · 2023 41% — 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
46% of SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
53% of SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER?
- SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER (Kentucky) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,191 to it, the largest being FRAZIER-JOY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($120,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $516,191 in grants to SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER?
- FRAZIER-JOY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 27 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