New York · Nonprofit
WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC
WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,504,425 to it, the largest being The Sheth Sangreal Foundation ($500,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Wolf Conservation Center Inc does
Mission
The wolf conservation center (wcc) is an environmental education organization working to advance the survival of wolves by inspiring a global community through education, advocacy, research, and participating in the federal recovery and release programs for two critically endangered wolf species - the mexican gray wolf and red wolf. The wcc's two education wolves reside on exhibit where they help teach the public about wolves and their vital role in the environment. Through wolves, the wcc teaches the broader message of conservation, ecological balance, and personal responsibility for improved human stewardship of our world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Wild release - endangered wolf recoverythe wcc continues to provide a safe and nurturing environment for the critically endangered red wolves and endangered mexican gray wolves entrusted to its care. And while most wolves born in captivity spend their lives there, 12 mexican gray wolf pups born at the wolf conservation center have been given the extraordinary opportunity to live in the wild in their ancestral range. Most recently, five pups born in 2024 were fostered into wild mexican gray wolf dens in new mexico.at just under 14 days old, the pups were flown to new mexico and successfully placed in a wild den through a process known as "pup-fostering." pup-fostering is a coordinated effort between the mexican gray wolf interagency field team (ift) and the mexican wolf saving animals from extinction program and is a technique employed to enhance the genetic health of the wild gene pool of mexican wolves. Captive-born pups are introduced into a similar-aged wild litter so the pups can grow up as wild wolves and aid in the recovery of their endangered species.according to u.s. Fish and wildlife service (usfws) mexican gray wolves within the wild population are as related to one…
$1,939,974 spent$316,915 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,939,974.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.7M to $8.8M (+32%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Leila Wetmore
Exec director from 12/13/24
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $150k → $616k.
17 of 124 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 WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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
WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
37% 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 WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 30% · 2020 18% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 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
28% of WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER 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 WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC?
- WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,504,425 to it, the largest being The Sheth Sangreal Foundation ($500,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $4,504,425 in grants to WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC?
- The Sheth Sangreal Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 124 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