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The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust

The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,306,587 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($998,309). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$658k
Revenue FY2024
28
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$21M
Net assets
13/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%

Against its field

The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust's revenue fell 83% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−152% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,424 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 37 ($1.4M) Expenses 85 ($1.3M) Net assets 99 ($15M)2019 Revenue 61 ($2.4M) Expenses 61 ($939k) Net assets 112 ($17M)2020 Revenue 84 ($3.2M) Expenses 104 ($1.6M) Net assets 128 ($19M)2021 Revenue 45 ($1.7M) Expenses 115 ($1.8M) Net assets 129 ($19M)2022 Revenue 44 ($1.7M) Expenses 54 ($842k) Net assets 131 ($20M)2023 Revenue 66 ($2.6M) Expenses 87 ($1.3M) Net assets 144 ($22M)2024 Revenue 17 ($658k) Expenses 107 ($1.7M) Net assets 141 ($21M)
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Revenue (17)Expenses (107)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

50% of The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
17
$114k
18
$1.4M
19
$1.6M
20
$42k
21
$838k
22
$1.2M
23
$999k
24
1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $40k → $1.0M.

6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)87% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $148k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Humane Society of the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust raised.

From the IRS filings of The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust’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

The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust.

76%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 98% · 2019 90% · 2020 31% · 2021 37% · 2022 41% · 2023 96%growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

87% of The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust'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 $168k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states.

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MA
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MO
DE
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FL

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

38%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

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Part of a family of 17 related entities

  • Humane World for Animals International Fka Humane Society International · exempt
  • Humane Society of the United States New Jersey Branch Inc · exempt
  • Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association Inc · exempt
  • The Fund for Animals Inc · exempt
  • Humane World for Animals Inc Fka the Humane Society of the United States · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust: 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 Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust?
The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,306,587 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($998,309). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,306,587 in grants to The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust?
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $998,309 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing