Wildlife Freedom Foundation
Legal name: Wildlife Freedom Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473747093
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York City, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9176229921
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,410
- Expenses
- $68,400
- Assets
- $34,030
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROSSANA CERUZZI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROSSANA CERUZZI (PRESIDENT)
- KIM SMITHINGHAM (TRASURER)
- LORRI CRAMER (COMPLIANCE OFFICER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe in a future where people and animals can live in harmony together
What it reported doing in 2025
The wildlife freedom foundation is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization formed for the purpose of rescuing & caring for abandoned/stray companion animals in nyc and rehabilitating injured wildlife (with a state & federally licensed wildlife animal rehabilitator). The wildlife freedom foundation works tirelessly to rescue, protect, defend, and rehabilitate animals in New York city and we run three cat sanctuaries in one of which we have a wildlife rehabilitation area. Part of our mission is advocating to protect, preserve and conserve wildlife in New York city, restore the health of injured or sick animals and control/reduce the population of strays by trapping and having such animals spayed, neutered, and later adopted (when possible).we advocate to prevent and end all forms of cruelty toward animals and engage in public education activities to enhance compassion for all animals and establish the importance of protecting and respecting wildlife in urban areas. The wff provides an invaluable service to homeless and/or orphan animals and for the preservation of wildlife in an urban setting. These initiatives are in addition to our ongoing work centered on providing meals, shelter, and medical care daily to our animals living in our three sanctuaries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.