Wildlife Learning Encounters

Analysis

Wildlife Learning Encounters is a registered charity in United States, based in Gretna, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wildlife Learning Encounters reported income of $548k and spending of $524k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $323k to $548k (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Wildlife Learning Encounters sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include K9s for Veterans NFP ($548k), California Dressage Society ($548k) and Noahs Ark Animal Welfare Association ($547k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.7% and program service revenue 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $292k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $292k.