Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD
WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,616 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($396,281). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $703k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Wildlife in Need Center Ltd does
Mission
To provide wildlife rehabilitation to wisconsin wildlife with intent to release back to the native habitat, conduct research designed to further the positive impact of rehabilitation, and provide quality community education programs and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wildlife rehabilitation is the treatment and care of injured, sick, or orphaned indigenous wildlife, and the subsequent return of healthy viable animals to appropiate habitats in the wild. Through the program, over 10,000 phone calls are answered from people asking for advice or help with wildlife issues and admit approximately 3,000 animals over 140 species annually. The program also conducts research designed to further the positive impact of rehabilitiation.
$418,239 spent85% of program spendingWildlife in need center offers education programs that can be tailored to any age group. Programs are given at schools, community centers, office buildings, or other sites, including wildlife in need center facilities to accomodate groups of 40-60 people. The programs typically include an appearance from a few of our live educational animal ambassadors. These programs provide public awareness and quality education programs in order to advance the well-being of wildlife.
$72,304 spent$15,052 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $490,543.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+21%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD’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. 3 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
Kim Banach
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $53k → $228k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 IN NEED CENTER LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 IN NEED CENTER LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 IN NEED CENTER LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 63% · 2019 48% · 2020 45% · 2021 40% · 2022 52% · 2023 43% — 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
57% of WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
61% of WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD'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 $421k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $650k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 IN NEED CENTER LTD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD: 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 IN NEED CENTER LTD?
- WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD (Wisconsin) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,616 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($396,281). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,070,616 in grants to WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $396,281 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 32 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