Arizona · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,417,848 to it, the largest being LIEBCHEN'S GIFT FOUNDATION ($3,442,260). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center does
Mission
Saving our wildlife, one life at a time, by rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing injured, displaced, and orphaned wildlife, while educating the community on the importance f native wildlife and participating in scientific research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical care and rehabilitation: southwest wildlife operates a veterinary clinic providing medical care for sick, injured, or orphaned mammals. Through our rehabilitation work, more than 90% of intake animals who survive their initial trauma are released back into the wild. Animal sanctuary: southwest wildlife specializes in providing sanctuary for large mammals such as black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and coyotes. Southwest wildlife also particpates in the mexican wolf recovery program by providing space for geriatric wolves and collecting genetic material. Animals that have lost the ablity to survive in the wild can live out their lives in our accredited sanctuary.
$2,809,949 spent96% of program spendingEducation and research: southwest wildlife shares its knowledge of protecting wildlife through education programs, with a goal of inspiring people to learn about, respect, and conserve our native wildlife and habitats. Educational programs offered onsite at the sanctuary in northeast scottsdale include walk with wildlife, family days for the very young, full moon tours, discovery days, and other workshops. Southwest wildlife also offers outreach programs in the community. In addition, southwest wildlife contributed to several scientific research projects focused on wildlife conservation, including studies on bobcats, kit foxes, and javalinas. Southwest wildlife also assisted in preserving the reproductive potential of endangered mexican wolves for future breeding programs.
$106,191 spent$380,146 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,916,140.
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 $4.4M to $7.2M (+63%).
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: 2017 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% 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.
Board chair
Sam Coppersmith
Chair/secret
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $38k → $404k.
16 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% — 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
37% of SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER?
- SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,417,848 to it, the largest being LIEBCHEN'S GIFT FOUNDATION ($3,442,260). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $5,417,848 in grants to SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER?
- LIEBCHEN'S GIFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,442,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 67 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