California · Nonprofit
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 355 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,671,708 to it, the largest being INTERLAKEN FOUNDATION INC ($23,550,000). 222 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86M
- Funders on record
- 355
- Grants received
- $121M
- Net assets
- $88M
What Wildlife Conservation Network Inc does
Mission
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wildlife programs - provide direct support to wildlife conservation partners, with a long-term commitment to endangered flagship species in 69 countries. This support includes short-term and long-term grants to enhance wcn's field-based conservation partners and associates' ability to save endangered species in the wild through programs aimed at reducing human-wildlife conflict, improving wildlife-friendly livestock practices, land and crop management, developing alternative livelihood programs, monitoring wildlife, anti-poaching, building capacity in and around protected areas, providing community education for children and adults, and raising public awareness about wildlife.
$44,317,329 spentof which $43,535,304 as grants88% of program spendingProgram support services - provide a variety of technical assistance and support services to field based conservation partners and associates to maximize their long-term impacts by enhancing their organizational and individual leadership capacity. These services include student internships, graduate scholarship support, cross-site exchanges, leadership development, infrastructural improvement, training workshops, and access to expert advice and short-term support (e.g. Building capacity to improve accounting, donor outreach and management, grant writing, use of technology, etc.).
$4,448,205 spentof which $2,236,960 as grants9% of program spendingPublic education and outreach - inform the public of wildlife conservation challenges and community-based solutions implemented by some of the world's most innovative and successful wildlife conservationists through a series of annual wildlife conservation events (including the wildlife conservation expo), newsletters, and website.
$1,541,278 spent$68,781 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,306,812.
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 2024 to 2025, from $65M to $98M (+50%).
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.
97% of WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Jean-Gael Emptaz-Collomb
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Charles Knowles
Chairman/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 88 funders to 146 funders, grant income rose $5.5M → $27M.
55 of 355 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 355 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
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 28% · 2019 32% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 37% — 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
46% of WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 36 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: 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 WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC?
- WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 355 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,671,708 to it, the largest being INTERLAKEN FOUNDATION INC ($23,550,000). 222 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 355 organizations giving $120,671,708 in grants to WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC, 222 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC?
- INTERLAKEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 355 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