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THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC

THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,928,800 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,020,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.3M
Funders on record
128
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$12M
81/128 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc does

Mission

The Organizations primary mission is to rescue and rehabilitate sick or injured wildlife with the ultimate goal of releasing healthy animals back into the wild. The Organization also provides an environmental education program for both children and adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Primarily for the rehabilitation of injured wildlife and in doing so, to educate the general public about their care and awareness of animal extinction. The Organization successfully continued its mission to house and rehabilitate wildlife at its facilty.

    $3,986,726 spent$4,254,390 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,986,726.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 98 ($1.9M) Expenses 121 ($1.2M) Net assets 117 ($4.6M)2019 Revenue 109 ($2.1M) Expenses 128 ($1.3M) Net assets 140 ($5.5M)2020 Revenue 98 ($1.9M) Expenses 152 ($1.5M) Net assets 147 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 127 ($2.4M) Expenses 494 ($4.9M) Net assets 84 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 236 ($4.5M) Expenses 196 ($2.0M) Net assets 149 ($5.9M)2023 Revenue 454 ($8.7M) Expenses 239 ($2.4M) Net assets 308 ($12M)2024 Revenue 200 ($3.8M) Expenses 381 ($3.8M) Net assets 309 ($12M)2025 Revenue 222 ($4.3M) Expenses 471 ($4.7M) Net assets 298 ($12M)
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Revenue (222)Expenses (471)Net assets (298)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.5M to $20M (+204%).

$4.0M
$4.7M
$5.6M
$5.9M
$3.4M
$6.5M
$20M
$21M
$21M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$917k
’17
$680k
’18
$822k
’19
$364k
’20
−$2.5M
’21
$2.6M
’22
$6.3M
’23
$31k
’24
−$455k
’25
8.7
months of
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

Amy J Kight

Executive Director

Board chair

Peter W Busch

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed778888855
Joined·+1+1+1+0+0+0+2+2
No longer listed·10100052
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $238k → $3.4M.

16 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 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

THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

44% 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 THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC.

17%
largest funder
43%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 23% · 2019 50% · 2020 20% · 2021 50% · 2022 42% · 2023 53% — 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

61% of THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

ME
VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
AZ
KS
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC is better cushioned than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $619 on record.

State$619
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $619

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 7%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC?
THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,928,800 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,020,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC have?
IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $11,928,800 in grants to THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC?
CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,020,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 128 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