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WINGS OF RESCUE INC

WINGS OF RESCUE INC (California) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,351,411 to it, the largest being GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ($3,493,218). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.5M
Funders on record
117
Grants received
$8.4M
Net assets
$2.4M
39/117 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Wings of Rescue Inc does

Mission

Flies large scale transports of at-risk shelter pets from disaster areas and overcrowded shelters to brick and mortar shelters where there is empty kennel space and where no local shelter pets are displaced by our flights.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Flies large scale transports of at-risk shelter pets from disaster areas and overcrowded shelters to brick and mortar shelters where there is empty kennel space and where no local shelter pets are displaced by our flights.

    $1,786,384 spentof which $592,444 as grants$605,013 earned by the program
    96% of program spending
  2. provides free spay/neuters, core vaccines, and microchips to bully breed dog owners.

    $70,000 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,856,384.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($853k)2018 Revenue 53 ($2.1M) Expenses 58 ($2.4M) Net assets -7 ($-57306)2019 Revenue 44 ($1.8M) Expenses 43 ($1.8M) Net assets 117 ($998k)2020 Revenue 52 ($2.1M) Expenses 65 ($2.8M) Net assets 42 ($357k)2021 Revenue 77 ($3.1M) Expenses 66 ($2.8M) Net assets 82 ($697k)2022 Revenue 75 ($3.0M) Expenses 59 ($2.5M) Net assets 138 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 85 ($3.5M) Expenses 54 ($2.3M) Net assets 277 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 61 ($2.5M) Expenses 56 ($2.4M) Net assets 286 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (61)Expenses (56)Net assets (286)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $704k (−66%).

$2.1M
$1.2M
$2.3M
$2.0M
$704k
$1.2M
$2.5M
$2.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of WINGS OF RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$160k
’17
−$300k
’18
−$11k
’19
−$642k
’20
$340k
’21
$539k
’22
$1.2M
’23
$107k
’24
4.3
months of
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

Ric Browde

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed43423456
Joined·+0+1··+1+1+3
No longer listed·10··002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 28 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $471k.

20 of 117 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 WINGS OF RESCUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 117 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

WINGS OF RESCUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

84% 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 WINGS OF RESCUE INC.

42%
largest funder
57%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 82% · 2019 81% · 2020 63% · 2021 59% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — 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

26% of WINGS OF RESCUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

WINGS OF RESCUE INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 31 states in all.

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WINGS OF RESCUE INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like WINGS OF RESCUE INC

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In California

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE INC?
WINGS OF RESCUE INC (California) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,351,411 to it, the largest being GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ($3,493,218). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WINGS OF RESCUE INC have?
IRS filings report 117 organizations giving $8,351,411 in grants to WINGS OF RESCUE INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WINGS OF RESCUE INC?
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $3,493,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WINGS OF RESCUE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 117 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