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THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CORPORATION

EIN 84-1351483 KEENESBURG, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2025
$38,304,328
Expenses 2025
$35,653,180

Program services were 90.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D340
Classification
1000
Street
1946 WCR 53

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Animal Sanctuary and Public Education on Captive Wildlife.

  • Animal Care-The Sanctuary successfully cares for Lions, Tigers, Bears, Wolves and other large carnivores as well as Wild Mustangs. The Organization feeds species-specific food and provides large natural habitats for the animals.

    Expenses $27,507,344

  • Public Education-The Sanctuary operated on-site public education programs for people in the Denver Metro area as well as visitors from around the nation and other countries. Education on the Sanctuarys animals is provided through in person field trips, Zoom intertnet videos presentations as well as various social media campaigns.

    Expenses $4,565,250

  • Animal Rescue-The Sancuary has remained highly active in rescuing large carnivores throughout the United States and from many other countries around the world. The Sanctuary operates a fleet of specialized rescue equipment and highly trained staff to rescue animals that were suffering or facing death on a daily basis.

    Expenses $153,344

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Pat Craig

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $260,189
    From this org
    $260,189
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Dr Rachel Braun

    Veterinarian

    Total calculated
    $172,344
    From this org
    $172,344
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Becca Miceli

    Cheif Science Welfare Officer

    Total calculated
    $163,963
    From this org
    $163,963
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Toni Scalera

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0

  • George Ellis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Joe Spahn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Dr Ashley Malmlov DVM

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Maria McCann-Glover

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Dwaine Barclay

    Cheif Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $38,304,328
    Expenses
    $35,653,180
    Contributions
    $37,312,925
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $33,903,058
    Expenses
    $30,529,903
    Contributions
    $33,757,642
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $31,848,432
    Expenses
    $25,043,192
    Contributions
    $31,711,876
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,365,844
    Expenses
    $21,955,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,461,552

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,351,805
    Expenses
    $21,530,181
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,053,991

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $20,021,243
    Expenses
    $19,908,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,111,476

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $20,753,230
    Expenses
    $18,683,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,874,524

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,229,659
    Expenses
    $14,203,892
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,002,232

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,441,038
    Expenses
    $14,362,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,345,633

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,010,259
    Expenses
    $10,594,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,602,198

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,010,259
    Expenses
    $10,594,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,602,198

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,276,084
    Expenses
    $10,285,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,181,952

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,699,233
    Expenses
    $8,213,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,099,702

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.