California · Nonprofit
Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center
Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,490 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($112,107). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $712k
- Net assets
- $687k
What Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center does
Mission
To educate the public about man's impact on the environment and mitigate that impact through care and rehabilitation of native wildlife.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center (WWCC) is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned native wildlife. WWCC is capable of rehabilitating over 1000 animals at a time. We reponded to local emergencies including fire victims and unusual mortality events with seabirds.WWCC is a primary participant-managed facility with the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) and is designed to care for up to 400 oiled birds in the event of an oil spill in Southern California.Our 2,625 square-foot Butler building contains areas for bird intake, holding, washing, drying, and recovery, as well as a series of six large and four small pens with pools for bird recovery.Under the supervision and authority of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, abandoned Western Snowy Plover eggs are captive reared at our facility and then released into the wild. The Western Snowy Plover is a threatened/endangered species.WWCC is 1 of only 2 permitted Hummingbird rehabilitation facilities in all of Orange County, CA. More than 600 Hummingbirds come in annually with a release rate higher than the national average. With intensive training and oversight by our species specialists, qualified…
$815,360 spent$107,533 earned by the program100% of program spendingEducational/Outreach - The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center participates and hosts many educational and community events (on and off-site) each year, provides online educational materials, educates the public about wildlife via social media and telephone counseling for wildlife related issues and more. In collaboration with the Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy, our fun and educational tours visit the Interpretive Center and the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center which is a working animal hospital for wildlife.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $815,360.
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 2020 to 2021, from $294k to $943k (+221%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Elizabeth Wood
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $2k → $39k.
9 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
60% 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 Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 85% · 2019 81% · 2020 46% · 2021 33% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% — 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
33% of Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $332k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center has grown faster 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 Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center: 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 Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center?
- Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,490 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($112,107). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $712,490 in grants to Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $112,107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 48 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