Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,389 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($369,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Clinton County Economic Partnership Tourist Promotion Agencylocal
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Incportfolio match
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 57% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 47% · 2023 39% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $17k → $199k.
From the IRS filings of WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY’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 LEADERSHIP ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 80% · 2019 20% · 2020 53% · 2021 47% · 2022 65% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
73% of WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
76% of WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Clinton County Economic Partnership Tourist Promotion AgencylocalPA · funds 9 organizations near you
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weatherby Foundation International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Swantz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Audubon Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Defenders of Wildlifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Safari Club International Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councilsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Natural Resources Foundation Ofportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Danowsky Reeds Memorial Fd IdtlocalMO · funds 10 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
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
87%
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 LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,389 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($369,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $834,389 in grants to WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $369,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing