Virginia · Nonprofit
THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA
THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,006,116 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($305,279). 41 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 FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What The Wildlife Center of Virginia does
Mission
Treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals and educational programs for various environmental issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The center hosts a robust and current website that includes significant resources on wildlife and environmental issues, a user-friendly "I need rescue advice" section, and frequent updates on center patients. The center's website also provides a live webcam feed of patients and education animals, accessible to viewers worldwide through the internet. In addition, during 2024 the center outreach staff presented educational programs reaching more than 6,517 children and adults at locations throughout virginia; and twenty-one online programs. These programs emphasize education lessons from the thousands of wild animals that arrive at the wildlife center's doorstep every year in need of care. The stories of these animals illustrate the wider problems wildlife face litter, pesticides, free-roaming domestic animals, habitat loss, and diseases and challenge people of all ages to take action to protect wildlife.
$872,745 spent$19,270 earned by the program35% of program spendingThe center provided veterinary treatment and rehabilitation for 4,604 wild animals suffering from injury or disease.
$1,156,484 spent46% of program spendingVeterinary interns and students from various educational institutions received advanced training in the treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals.
$489,278 spent$37,976 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,518,507.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.6M to $6.6M (+19%).
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.
96% of THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA’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 8 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
Julie Morill
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $71k → $372k.
16 of 69 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $392k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wildlife Center of Virginia Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA raised.
From the IRS filings of THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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 WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
52% 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 WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 43% · 2019 25% · 2020 23% · 2021 37% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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
43% of THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA'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 $987k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA
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 Virginia
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
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA?
- THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,006,116 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($305,279). 41 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 WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $2,006,116 in grants to THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $305,279 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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