New York · Nonprofit
WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC
WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,928 to it, the largest being Alice Turner Foundation Inc ($45,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Wildlife Freedom Foundation Inc does
Mission
Protecting and conserving wildlife and caring for stray animal populations in new york city, and advocating to prevent and end all forms of cruelty towards animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The wildlife freedom foundation is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization formed for the purpose of rescuing & caring for abandoned/stray companion animals in nyc and rehabilitating injured wildlife (with a state & federally licensed wildlife animal rehabilitator). The wildlife freedom foundation works tirelessly to rescue, protect, defend, and rehabilitate animals in new york city and we run three cat sanctuaries in one of which we have a wildlife rehabilitation area. Part of our mission is advocating to protect, preserve and conserve wildlife in new york city, restore the health of injured or sick animals and control/reduce the population of strays by trapping and having such animals spayed, neutered, and later adopted (when possible).we advocate to prevent and end all forms of cruelty toward animals and engage in public education activities to enhance compassion for all animals and establish the importance of protecting and respecting wildlife in urban areas. The wff provides an invaluable service to homeless and/or orphan animals and for the preservation of wildlife in an urban setting. These initiatives are in addition to our ongoing work centered on providing meals, shelter,…
$56,209 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,209.
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 $19k to $34k (+79%).
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.
100% of WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $0 → $3k.
1 of 7 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 WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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 FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 82% · 2023 69% — 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
WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153 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
WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
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 WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION 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 FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC?
- WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,928 to it, the largest being Alice Turner Foundation Inc ($45,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $58,928 in grants to WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC?
- Alice Turner Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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