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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $373k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $834k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Wildlife Leadership Academy does
Mission
The mission of the Wildlife Leadership Academy is to engage and empower high school age youth to become conservation ambassadors to ensure a sustained wildlife, fisheries and natural resource legacy for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Educational programs and seminars to promote conservation in pennsylvania.
$363,625 spentof which $3,000 as grants$40,585 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $363,625.
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 $223k to $112k (−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.
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
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
Sara Mueller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
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 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.
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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.
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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 18 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