Oregon · Nonprofit
WILD ME
WILD ME (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,146,200 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($2,751,108). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $0
What Wild Me does
Mission
Wild Me puts professionally supported data management, computer vision and artificial intelligence tools into the hands of researchers to help them better understand and protect wildlife while engaging the public in their efforts.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization dissolved and transferred its assets to conservation x labs inc as of 12/31/2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Wildbook (www.wildbook.org) is our flagship project, underlying most of Wild Me's research and technology efforts. Continuing the development of wildbook as a free and open-source software package for use by the wildlife research community. Accomplishments included upgraded computer-vision algorithms to identify individual animals by their natural markings and application of those algorithms to new species, including african wild dogs, leopards, cheetah, and various cetaceans. Wildbook supports approximately 1400 researchers around the globe for 50+ species.
$839,803 spent$75,978 earned by the program73% of program spendingFlukebook.org - flukebook is a global-scale cetacean research platform supporting noaa, boem, and whale and dolphin researchers around the world with free access to cutting-edge machine learning tools to speed and scale photo-identification for population assessments. Tracking 73,000+ individual whales and dolphins.
$268,039 spent$263,800 earned by the program23% of program spendingModernizing wildlife surveys (mws)/kaza survey - mws/kaza applies ai to process high volumes of imagery for wildlife population assessment via aerial surveys. Our first application will be to the kaza transfrontier aerial survey.
$30,221 spent3% of program spendingAdditional program services are variants of the top three listed on lines 4a-c: development, maintenance, and in some cases operation of online wildlife photo-identification research databases for different species. These include: www.whaleshark.org, www.mantamatcher.org,www.flukebook.org, www.spotashark.com, www.whiskerbook.org, giraffespotter.org, and others. All are instances of our wildbook software platform. More platforms can be found at:https://www.wildme.org/platforms.html.
$9,231 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,147,294.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $369k to $0 (−100%).
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 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Jason Holmberg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $49k → $311k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ME’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 ME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 57% · 2023 80% — 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 ME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
WILD ME draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding WILD ME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $588k on record.
- National Science Foundation$297k
- Department of Commerce$246k
- Department of the Interior$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WILD ME
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILD ME: 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 WILD ME?
- WILD ME (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,146,200 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($2,751,108). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILD ME have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,146,200 in grants to WILD ME, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILD ME?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,751,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILD ME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 13 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