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WILD INSTINCTS INC

WILD INSTINCTS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,832 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($87,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$469k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$181k
Net assets
$1.0M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Wild Instincts Inc does

Mission

Treatment and temporary care of orphaned, injured, diseased and displaced indigenous wildlife and the subsequent return of healthy animals into the wild while promoting wildlife stewardship through education and research.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rehabilitation of injured, orphaned, diseased and displaced indigenous wildlife.

    $149,196 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $149,196.

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 ($185k) Expenses 100 ($164k) Net assets 100 ($234k)2021 Revenue 135 ($249k) Expenses 94 ($155k) Net assets 160 ($374k)2022 Revenue 184 ($341k) Expenses 112 ($184k) Net assets 232 ($542k)2023 Revenue 146 ($270k) Expenses 131 ($215k) Net assets 243 ($568k)2024 Revenue 169 ($313k) Expenses 134 ($220k) Net assets 312 ($729k)2025 Revenue 204 ($377k) Expenses 155 ($255k) Net assets 361 ($843k)2026 Revenue 254 ($469k) Expenses 167 ($274k) Net assets 436 ($1.0M)
2020202120222023202420252026
Revenue (254)Expenses (167)Net assets (436)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 $394k to $692k (+76%).

$239k
$394k
$692k
$719k
$872k
$977k
$1.2M
2020202120222023202420252026
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of WILD INSTINCTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’20
$95k
’21
$157k
’22
$56k
’23
$93k
’24
$123k
’25
$195k
’26
3.5
months of
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.

2020202120222023202420252026
Listed4433555
Joined·+0+0+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·010000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $23k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 WILD INSTINCTS 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

WILD INSTINCTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

69% 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 WILD INSTINCTS INC.

48%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 59% · 2021 58% · 2022 30% · 2023 89% — 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

33% of WILD INSTINCTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

69% of WILD INSTINCTS INC'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states.

WI
OH
NJ
CT

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WILD INSTINCTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like WILD INSTINCTS INC

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 41%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILD INSTINCTS INC?
WILD INSTINCTS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,832 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($87,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WILD INSTINCTS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $180,832 in grants to WILD INSTINCTS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILD INSTINCTS INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $87,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILD INSTINCTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2020–2026), and the filings of 11 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