Colorado · Nonprofit
WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS
WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,857,881 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,501,915). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Wildlife Protection Solutions does
Mission
To protect endangered species.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The conservation of endangered species and ecosystems globally through technology based protection, creating safe and secure habitats, breeding programs, relocation efforts, community building, and education.
$3,394,040 spentof which $787,477 as grants$12,023 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,394,040.
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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $21M (+58%).
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 2% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS’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. 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
Eric Schmidt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $574k → $11M.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 PROTECTION SOLUTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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 PROTECTION SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PROTECTION SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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
25% of WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
99% of WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS'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 $215k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M 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 PROTECTION SOLUTIONS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41k on record.
- Department of Defense$41k
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 PROTECTION SOLUTIONS
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS: 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 PROTECTION SOLUTIONS?
- WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,857,881 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,501,915). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $20,857,881 in grants to WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,501,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 20 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