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Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc

Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,045 to it, the largest being DUFFY FOUNDATION ($246,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$116k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$402k
Net assets
$54k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc does

Mission

Operation and Maintenance of a Wilflife Refuge

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide care and treatment for injured, ill and orphaned wildlife

    $46,406 spentof which $33,000 as grants
    75% of program spending
  2. Advance science and education by encouraging and participating in wildlife care, rehabilitation, welfare management education and conservation

    $8,662 spentof which $6,160 as grants
    14% of program spending
  3. Improve the quality of the Publics education regarding wildlife, conservation, Ecological and Inviromental concerns

    $6,806 spentof which $4,840 as grants
    11% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,874.

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 ($78k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 129 ($100k) Expenses 135 ($103k) Net assets 57 ($4k)2019 Revenue 142 ($110k) Expenses 146 ($112k) Net assets 33 ($2k)2020 Revenue 111 ($86k) Expenses 114 ($87k) Net assets 23 ($1k)2021 Revenue 99 ($77k) Expenses 101 ($77k) Net assets 14 ($936)2022 Revenue 109 ($84k) Expenses 111 ($85k) Net assets 6 ($394)2023 Revenue 104 ($81k) Expenses 105 ($81k) Net assets 6 ($373)2024 Revenue 91 ($70k) Expenses 92 ($71k) Net assets 2 ($106)2025 Revenue 150 ($116k) Expenses 81 ($62k) Net assets 833 ($54k)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (81)Net assets (833)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $106 to $54k (+51261%).

$7k
$4k
$2k
$1k
$936
$394
$373
$106
$54k
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Total assets

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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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$666
’20
−$543
’21
−$542
’22
−$21
’23
−$267
’24
$54k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $29k → $59k.

From the IRS filings of Trails End Wildlife Refuge 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

61%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 90% · 2019 88% · 2020 74% · 2021 91% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% — 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.

Where its funders are

Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.

MI
RI
TX

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

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’23
Indiana out of state home

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

Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc?
Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,045 to it, the largest being DUFFY FOUNDATION ($246,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $402,045 in grants to Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc?
DUFFY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $246,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Trails End Wildlife Refuge Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 5 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