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THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC

THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,398 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ($6,398). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$64M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc does

Program

  1. Core activities include protecting, enhancingand expanding habitat for wildlife, primarily at the norcross wildlife sanctuary (known as tupper hill) in the form of land holdings in the surrounding towns of monson, wales, holland and brimfield, ma and stafford and union, ct propagating, establishing, restoring and maintaining populations of threatened and endangered plants native to new england providing the public with education programs in natural and environmental science and protecting and conserving wild land and wildlife wherever threatened.

    $1,559,747 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($58M)2021 Revenue 56 ($2.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.8M) Net assets 106 ($61M)2022 Revenue 20 ($905k) Expenses 113 ($1.9M) Net assets 89 ($51M)2023 Revenue 146 ($6.5M) Expenses 119 ($2.0M) Net assets 96 ($56M)2024 Revenue 68 ($3.1M) Expenses 128 ($2.1M) Net assets 103 ($60M)2025 Revenue 66 ($2.9M) Expenses 148 ($2.4M) Net assets 112 ($64M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (66)Expenses (148)Net assets (112)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 2021 to 2022, from $62M to $52M (−16%).

$59M
$62M
$52M
$56M
$60M
$65M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

James E Hood

Executive director

Board chair

Andrew Fisk

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

202020212022202320242025
Listed101414131514
Joined·+4+1+2+3+3
No longer listed·01314
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 34% between 2020 and 2025.

Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $872k on record.

State$872k
22
23
25
Top programs
  • (NN) INFRASTRUCTURE:$872k

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC?
THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,398 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ($6,398). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,398 in grants to THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,398 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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