California · Nonprofit
SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE
SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,289,516 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($704,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue does
Mission
Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of sick, injured and orphaned wildlife and the promotion of understanding and appreciation of wildlife through our Education Outreach Program.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education Outreach and PEEP Programs are designed to share our passion for wildlife and the local community. We nurture a love for wildlife in children. We give dynamic interactive tours. Our program supports the Next Generation Science Standards. The PEEP program educates farmers and ranchers with predation issues and is an extra-curricular activity for visitors to learn how to take care of animals, plants, and gardens. We expanded our educational program this year with starting One With The Wild Wellness to help connect people to natural habitats through wildlife education, rediscovering our own wild instincts through wellness, nurtured by meditation, yoga, and nature, to evoke love, kindness and compassion already resting within us.
$61,507 spent$25,289 earned by the program55% of program spendingBarn Owl Maintenance Program provides consultation, installation, and maintenance to barn owl boxes. We offer research services so that we can help vineyard and homeowners determine which boxes are the most effective and we can identify the best box to place an orphaned owl that might be most able to be integrated into an existing owl family.
$38,120 spent$99,050 earned by the program34% of program spendingA Wildlife Exclusion Service services 170 or more Sonoma County residents a year that are invaded by local wildlife. A Wildlfe Exclusion Service helps prevent loss of wild animal lives and the seperation of animal mothers from their offspring. It also provides the opportunity for a one on one forum to provide information about the invading animals to Sonoma County residents and how to prevent future incursions.
$13,039 spent$101,211 earned by the program12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,666.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $2.1M (+46%).
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.
86% of SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Doris Duncan
Executive Director
Board chair
Harold Arbit
Board President and Treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $6k → $96k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE’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
SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 76% · 2019 60% · 2020 31% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% — 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
78% of SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
78% of SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE'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 $289k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
6% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE: 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 SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE?
- SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,289,516 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($704,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,289,516 in grants to SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $704,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SONOMA COUNTY WILDLIFE RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 22 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