Montana · Nonprofit
WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC
WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,528 to it, the largest being The Tapeats Fund ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Wild Skies Raptor Center Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide the best possible care, rehabilitation, and eventual release of injured wild birds. We believe it is our moral obligation to protect and conserve our wildlife and natural resources for future generations through education and outreach programs. We strive to cooperate and coordinate with other organizations and agencies in our endeavors. Our ultimate goal is to build and operate a wildlife hospital and education center.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Providing care, rehabilitation and eventual release of injured wild birds to protect and conserve wildlife providing education and outreach programs for bird conservation.
$100,675 spent91% of program spendingProviding care, rehabilitation and eventual release of injured wild birds to protect and conserve wildlife providing education and outreach programs for bird conservation.
$9,827 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $110,502.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $37k to $61k (+68%).
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.
99% of WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SKIES RAPTOR 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
WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 60% · 2021 47% · 2022 90% · 2023 48% — 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
WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $568 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER 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 Montana
Nationally
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC?
- WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,528 to it, the largest being The Tapeats Fund ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $130,528 in grants to WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC?
- The Tapeats Fund is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing