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TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC

TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,337 to it, the largest being JAMES AND AUNE NELSON FOUNDATION ($92,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$238k
Revenue FY2024
20
Funders on record
$244k
Grants received
$588k
Net assets
10/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%

Against its field

TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,424 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

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 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($162k) Expenses 100 ($194k) Net assets 100 ($429k)2019 Revenue 111 ($180k) Expenses 85 ($164k) Net assets 104 ($445k)2020 Revenue 170 ($275k) Expenses 103 ($200k) Net assets 121 ($520k)2021 Revenue 217 ($351k) Expenses 132 ($256k) Net assets 143 ($615k)2022 Revenue 213 ($344k) Expenses 170 ($330k) Net assets 146 ($628k)2023 Revenue 176 ($284k) Expenses 158 ($306k) Net assets 141 ($606k)2024 Revenue 147 ($238k) Expenses 132 ($256k) Net assets 137 ($588k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (147)Expenses (132)Net assets (137)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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
18
$16k
19
$75k
20
$95k
21
$13k
22
$22k
23
$18k
24
8.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $14k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)36% 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 TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER 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

TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC.

38%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 83% · 2019 54% · 2020 38% · 2021 27% · 2022 49% · 2023 38%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

40% of TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

89% of TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
CA
MO
AZ
NC

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k 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 20 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 TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC

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 Illinois

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 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC: 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 TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC?
TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,337 to it, the largest being JAMES AND AUNE NELSON FOUNDATION ($92,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $244,337 in grants to TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC?
JAMES AND AUNE NELSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $92,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 20funders 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