Maine · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE
THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE (Maine) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,729,754 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($147,525). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What The Center for Wildlife does
Mission
Center for wildlife's mission is to cultivate and strengthen relationships between humans, wildlife, and the environment resulting in a healthier, more sustainable community. To this end, we focus on three goals: 1. Strengthen our community's overall health through the interdisciplinary approach of conservation medicine. 2. Expand community outreach and provide learning opportunities to educate and inspire people of all ages to value the connection between wildlife, human, and environmental health. 3. Achieve and advance a diverse and viable fundraising strategy, ensuring long-term financial sustainability to support the successful growth and continued demand for our work in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide the full suite of medical treatment and rehabilitation services to up to 2,500 injured and orphaned wild animals so that they may return back to the wild. The clinic program also provides intern and apprenticeship hands-on career training and workforce development to 35 college students and young professionals, fields 15,000 calls from the public annually, along with assisting local, state and federal wildlife agencies with response to injured and orphaned wild animals and emergent disease. Additionally, the clinic program is now engaged in collecting and sharing missing baseline data on natural history and emergent disease in order to inform public policy.
$807,235 spent68% of program spendingTo present over 500 educational and outreach programs to over 25,000 children and adults each year, promoting stewardship, empathy, and connection to the environment. Our newer campus also offers an ada accessible nature center and trails, along with an outdoor campus including non-releasable wild animal enclosures and interactive learning exhibits, pollinator gardens, and trails through the mount agamenticus forest ecosystem. This allows us to host over 25,000 visitors of all ages and demographics annually with the goal of offering nature connection, experiential learning and ecological literacy.
$383,215 spent$145,692 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,190,450.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.9M to $5.8M (+105%).
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 5% · 2022 4% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE’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 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
Eric Cimon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $33k → $226k.
15 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 CENTER FOR WILDLIFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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 CENTER FOR WILDLIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
60% 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 CENTER FOR WILDLIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 34% · 2019 33% · 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 26% — 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
45% of THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
51% of THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE'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 $843k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $887k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE 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 THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: 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 THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE?
- THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE (Maine) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,729,754 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($147,525). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $1,729,754 in grants to THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $147,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 62 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