Wildcare Foundation

What it reported doing in 2024

Wildcare accepted 8,417 animal patients representing 208 distinct species in 2024. The survival and release rate of animals surviving the first 24 hours in care was 58% for all mammal patients, 63% for all bird species, 60% for all amphibian patients, and 87% for reptile patients with an overall survival rate of 61% above the national average of 50%. Caring members of the public rescue animals struggling to survive from across the entire state of Oklahoma; they bring them to wildcare because they are injured, ill, or orphaned. The veterinary team or senior rehabilitation staff assess each animal's condition, and then staff provide appropriate medical care, housing, and food. Staff care for and monitor each animal patient daily until they are fully developed or healed-they are then released back into the wild for a second chance at life. Wildcare manages a large portfolio of landowners that make available large swaths of land onto which patients are released. Wildcare remained opened 365 days in 2024, admitting the second highest number of animals in the organization's history due continued efforts to remain open, maintain adequate staff levels, and use newly developed animal care protocols to ensure animals, staff, and volunteers were kept as safe as possible. Wildcare provided over 100 educational events in 2024 reaching 6,278 people. Wildcare continued to operate its wildlife helpdesk responding to 21,194 calls in 2024. In 2024, 94 volunteers donated 4,671 hours of service to wildcare with its eleven-member, all- volunteer board of directors donating an estimated 288 hours.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
• Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: $62.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 33%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings