Maryland · Nonprofit
Wildlife Habitat Council
Wildlife Habitat Council (Maryland) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,584,765 to it, the largest being DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($420,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Wildlife Habitat Council does
Mission
The Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) promotes and certifies habitat conservation and management on corporate lands through partnerships and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wildlife Habitat Strategy and Planning: WHC delivers customized, comprehensive services that help companies align conservation efforts with business needs. WHC works with over 80 members and numerous partners to build strong conservation programs on their lands using a variety of approaches that range from the development of conservation plans, implementation of conservation projects on corporate lands, stakeholder and employee engagement in plan design and implementation, and corporate-wide approaches that leverage conservation to meet a business opportunity. The voluntary conservation programs can be found in 47 U.S. States, the District of Columbia and 19 countries. Comprehensive services focus on property-scale efforts and extend to nature-based solutions to climate change. Under the Climate Action Works Initiative, The Organization helps corporate landowners utilize nature-based climate change solutions that are corporate-driven, community-minded, and biodiversity-based. During a year of challenges related to the pandemic, technical expertise was widely dispensed related to the use of conservation and biodiversity as a tool for health and wellness. Another initiative, across…
$1,502,397 spent$983,291 earned by the program53% of program spendingConservation Conferences: The WHC conservation conference, hosted in person or virtually, provides attendees with educational opportunities, relationship building, and awards recognition. Over 400 individuals attend this annual meeting open to conservation leaders, community members, students, decision-makers, and employee volunteers from all programs engaged in conservation. The summer meeting includes learning sessions and networking events in which participants share successes, discuss challenges, and inspire one another.
$944,271 spent$329,023 earned by the program33% of program spendingWHC Conservation Certification: Conservation certification is a voluntary sustainable standard that recognizes meaningful wildlife habitat management and conservation education programs through an objective, third-party review. With over 600 certified programs worldwide, conservation certification produces an aggregated metric for reporting and disclosure, helping companies demonstrate a long-term
$295,738 spent$444,031 earned by the program10% of program spendingMembership Services:WHC helps members connect corporate level sustainability goals to meaningful on-the-ground actions through a series of decision tools and strategic engagements that may be utilized for corporate sustainability key performance indicators. These biodiversity and education actions enhance the meaning of corporate conservation throughout the company and ensures the longevity of both implementation and management, which in turn improves conservation and education outcomes. WHC produces several types of guidance, including 22 WHC project guidances that provide suggestions and instruction on the development and implementation of conservation projects across four categories: habitat, species, education and awareness, and other options. WHC also produces white papers, success stories and blogs highlighting case studies from whc members that demonstrate positive outcomes for biodiversity, the environment, and communities. Toolkits and other publications specifically written to support member efforts are also produced.
$113,834 spent$37,500 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,856,240.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.0M (+37%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 7% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of Wildlife Habitat Council’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% 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.
Board chair
Connie Hergert
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $124k → $186k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Habitat Council’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
Wildlife Habitat Council has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 Habitat Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 65% · 2021 32% · 2022 61% · 2023 49% — 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
67% of Wildlife Habitat Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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 Habitat Council draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k 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
Wildlife Habitat Council's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Wildlife Habitat Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of State$3.9M
- Department of Agriculture$1.3M
- Environmental Protection Agency$528k
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 Wildlife Habitat Council
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Wildlife Habitat Council: 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 Habitat Council?
- Wildlife Habitat Council (Maryland) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,584,765 to it, the largest being DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($420,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wildlife Habitat Council have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,584,765 in grants to Wildlife Habitat Council, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wildlife Habitat Council?
- DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wildlife Habitat Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 17 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