Vermont · Nonprofit
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,443,027 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($2,589,601). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Wildlife Management Institute Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1911, wildlife management institute, inc. (wmi) is a private, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization, dedicated to the conservation, enhancement and professional management of north america's wildlife and other natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Science and management and project coordination - wmi administers the american woodcock conservation plan, northeast regional conservation needs program, and the new england cottontail conservation recovery plan in the northeastern united states. In addition, wmi provides leadership, coordination and financial administration for regional and national wildlife conservation and hunting heritage projects and programs. The revenue total above excludes grants and contributions of approximately $3.8m that are used to fund natural resource management programs and are reported in part viii, line 1 as contributions.
$5,355,752 spentof which $808,572 as grants$1,648,856 earned by the program93% of program spendingInformation and education - administration and hosting of the north american wildlife and natural resources conference, a five day conference, which informs and educates more than 1,100 wildlife conservation professionals, including leaders of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, and academicians. The revenue total above excludes conference sponsorships of $290,002, which are reported in part viii, line 1 as contributions.
$388,652 spent$377,007 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,744,404.
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.
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 $3.7M to $2.8M (−25%).
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 68% · 2018 69% · 2019 59% · 2020 61% · 2021 63% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% · 2024 52% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Douglas Painter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $527k.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC’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 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 93% · 2019 39% · 2020 59% · 2021 58% · 2022 53% · 2023 61% — 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
24% of WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.2M on record — $26.1M federal, $5.1M state.
- Department of the Interior$24.6M
- Department of Agriculture$998k
- National Science Foundation$250k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$223k
- CT$2.9M
- VT$953k
- NJ$901k
- DE$315k
- OK$2k
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 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE 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 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC?
- WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,443,027 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($2,589,601). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,443,027 in grants to WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,589,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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