Minnesota · Nonprofit
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,307,655 to it, the largest being DONALD WEESNER CHARITABLE TR UA ($394,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota does
Mission
The wildlife rehabilitation center provides quality medical care and rehabilitation for all injured, sick and orphaned wild animals and shares its knowledge with the people who care about them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Wrc experienced a 15% increase in patients the highest increase since the "covid bump" from 2019 to 2020. In 2025, wrc anticipate treating more than 22,000 patients, solidifying our position as one of the busiest wildlife hospital in the world. In other significant news, despite the 15% increase in patients, wrc managed to trim our expenses to $2.5 million, vs the $2.8 million budgeted. Individual giving this doesn't include grants, bequests, etc., surpassed budget for a 13.2% increase compared to 2023. Wrc also had one of the best patient outcomes years in recent history. Of the patients in care, 68.8% were successfully treated and released. The mammal nursery, which is the busiest segment of operations, broke 10,000 patients for the first time in wrc's 46-year history. Wrc admitted 201 unique species in 2024, including the second vesper sparrow in our history and the first red-backed voles. The full species list is on our website if you'd like to see it (www.wrcmn.org). Perhaps most importantly, wrc provided free professional services to more than 45,000 people who came to us for help with wild animals. Through our email, phone and in-person support, we helped people determine…
$2,557,873 spent$71,511 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,557,873.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $8.2M (+128%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Tami Vogel
Executive director
Board chair
Lenny Dayton
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $65k → $693k.
17 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
55% 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 REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 29% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 15% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
56% of WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA has grown faster than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: 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 REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA?
- WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,307,655 to it, the largest being DONALD WEESNER CHARITABLE TR UA ($394,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $3,307,655 in grants to WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA?
- DONALD WEESNER CHARITABLE TR UA is the largest funder on record, with $394,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 77 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