Oregon · Nonprofit
Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary
Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary (Oregon) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,680 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($170,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $823k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $461k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary does
Mission
WildCat Ridge Sanctuary is an accredited last hope sanctuary, providing a safe, natural lifetime home for captive-born wildcats. Our animals are primarily wildcats but also include hybrid cats. We are not open to the public and we do buy, sell, breed or exhibit animals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide lifetime sanctuary to 41 captive born wildcats that have been confiscated, surrendered or placed with our facility. Resident cats include Tigers, Bobcats, Cougars, Lynx, Servals and Caracals. Educate the public about exotic pet crisis. Promote ideology of NO wild animals as pets.
$609,479 spent99% of program spendingRescue of large cats being held elsewhere.
$5,692 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $615,171.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+14%).
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: 2018 20% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $19k → $77k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 61% · 2019 76% · 2020 44% · 2021 67% · 2022 49% · 2023 33% — 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
29% of Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
60% of Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary'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 $184k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k 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.
Against its field
Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary: 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 Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary?
- Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary (Oregon) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,680 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($170,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $460,680 in grants to Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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