Washington · Nonprofit
WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL
WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL (Washington) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,140,215 to it, the largest being RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION ($494,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Wolf Haven International does
Mission
Wolf haven's mission is to conserve and protect wolves and their habitat. We rescue and provide sanctuary for displaced, captive-born wolves, promote wolf restoration in historical ranges, and provide a variety of educational programs about wildlife.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sanctuary: Wolf Haven International is a nationally recognized wolf sanctuary that has rescued and provided a lifetime home for over 330 displaced, captive-born animals since 1982 under the mission "to conserve and protect wolves and their habitat." many of the animals relocated to our sanctuaries (in both tenino, wa and bridger, mt) come from private ownership, while others come from zoos, roadside attractions, and other unfortunate situations. At wolf haven, they are given exceptional care, quality food, a variety of enrichment items, progressive medical treatment, and companionship with other wolves. Our sanctuary in tenino, washington has enclosures that range from 1/3 acre to 2-1/2 acres with an 8' fence, 3' tip-in, and additional barriers underground. This design considers the incredible digging instincts and jumping skills of wolves while allowing them space to freely move about. Resident wolves are typically housed in male-female pairs. Animal care specialists walk through the sanctuary twice per day to visually check on the wolves, monitoring their food intake and ensuring they are healthy. If there is any concern about an animal's health, our attending veterinarian is…
$1,220,732 spent$52,727 earned by the program85% of program spendingEducation: Wolf Haven International provides a variety of educational presentations about wolves and their critical role in a healthy ecosystem, and advocates for wolves in the wild through partnerships and state advisory groups. Wolf haven bridges the existing education gap by providing science and arts-based programs, as well as guided sanctuary and prairie walks, to groups of all ages and backgrounds. We offer close to 20 in-person programs both on and off site (in english and spanish) in washington, california, and oregon, and provide virtual programming around the world. Topics include: wolves of the northwest, world of wolves, and vanishing creatures. Wolf haven's newest education tool was developed in collaboration with colorado state university's college of natural sciences education and outreach center (csu): a hands-on ,self-led, wolf-based education kit. Exploring the scientific method from the angle of ecosystems and wolves, these kits cover a large range of canid information in a 90-minute session, facilitated by wolf haven staff or a classroom teacher. Starting with a little history on wolves in north america, students learn about hunting, family behavior,…
$118,898 spent$24,462 earned by the program8% of program spendingConservation & prairie restoration: wolf haven participates in two federally managed recovery programs designed to ensure the continued health and survival of two endangered wolf species: the american red wolf and the mexican grey wolf. Wolf haven is a captive breeding facility for both programs, as well as a pre-release site. Pre-release enclosures are designed to prepare the wolves for lives in the wild. Interaction with humans is kept to a minimum and most observations are done via remote camera. Ten litters of mexican wolf pups and five litters of american red wolf pups have been born at wolf haven as part of their respective recovery programs. To date, a total of 24 wolves from our sanctuary have been released into the wild: two red wolves into the recovery area in north carolina, two packs of mexican wolves into the apache national forest in arizona, and one pack of mexican wolves into mexico. Wolf haven staff serve on washington's wolf advisory group, which was created in 2013 by washington department of fish & wildlife to share a broad range of perspectives that can help inform wdfw's ongoing wolf management efforts. In addition, in 2024 wolf haven launched a new…
$100,903 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,440,533.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $3.9M (+41%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 10% · 2021 0% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL’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. 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
Geoff Willard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $78k → $325k.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 HAVEN INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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 HAVEN INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
31% 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 HAVEN INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 33% · 2019 39% · 2020 59% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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
56% of WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 HAVEN INTERNATIONAL draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $646k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 HAVEN INTERNATIONAL's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL?
- WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL (Washington) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,140,215 to it, the largest being RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION ($494,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $2,140,215 in grants to WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL?
- RIVERSTYX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $494,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 56 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