City Wildlife Inc.
City Wildlife Inc.
3400 RESERVOIR RD NW
Washington DC 20007-2328
Washington DC | IRS ruling year: 2009 | EIN: 26-2641235
PROTECTION OF WILDLIFE AND WILDLIFE HABITAT
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3400 RESERVOIR RD NW
Washington DC 20007-2328
Washington DC | IRS ruling year: 2009 | EIN: 26-2641235
PROTECTION OF WILDLIFE AND WILDLIFE HABITAT
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This charity's score is 100%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.
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The IRS is significantly delayed in processing nonprofits' annual tax filings (Forms 990). As a result, the Accountability & Finance score for City Wildlife Inc. is outdated and the overall rating may not be representative of its current operations. Please check with the charity directly for any questions you may have.
City Wildlife Inc. has earned a 100% for the Accountability & Finance beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies.
This Accountability & Finance score represents IRS Form 990 data up until FY 2020, which is the most recent Form 990 currently available to us.
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Charity Navigator looks for at least 3 board members, with more than 50% of those members identified as independent (not salaried).
The presence of an independent governing body is strongly recommended by many industry professionals to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters.
Source: IRS Form 990
An Audit, Review, or Compilation provides important information about financial accountability and accuracy. Organizations are scored based on their Total Revenue Amount:
Total Revenue Amount | Expectation to Receive Credit |
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$1 million or higher | Expected to complete an audit |
$500,000 - $1 million | Expected to complete an audit, review, or compilation |
Less than $500,000 | No expectation (removed from scoring methodology) |
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a conflict of interest policy on the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy protects the organization and by extension those it serves, when it is considering entering into a transaction that may benefit the private interest of an officer, director and/or key employee of the organization.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks to confirm on the Form 990 that the organization has this process in place as an accountability and transparency measure.
An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a document retention and destruction policy per the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy establishes guidelines for the handling, backing up, archiving and destruction of documents. These guidelines foster good record keeping procedures that promote data integrity.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a whistleblower policy per the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy outlines procedures for handling employee complaints, as well as a confidential way for employees to report financial or other types of mismanagement.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for a website on the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency metric.
Nonprofits act in the public trust and reporting publicly on activities is an important component.
Source: IRS Form 990
The Liabilities to Assets Ratio is determined by Total Liabilities divided by Total Assets (most recent 990). This ratio is an indicator of an organization’s solvency and/or long-term sustainability.
Liabilities to Assets Ratio | Amount of Credit Received |
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Less than 50% | Full Credit |
50% - 59.9% | Partial Credit |
60% or more | No Credit |
Source: IRS Form 990
The Program Expense Ratio is determined by Program Expenses divided by Total Expense (average of most recent three 990s). This measure reflects the percent of its total expenses a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver.
Program Expense Percentage | Amount of Credit Received |
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70% or higher | Full Credit |
60% - 69.9% | Partial Credit |
50% - 59.9% | Zero Points for Program Expense Score |
Below 50% | Zero Points for Both Program Expense AND Liabilities to Assets Scores |
Source: IRS Form 990
This chart displays the trend of revenue and expenses over the past several years for this organization, as reported on their IRS Form 990.
Presented here are up to five of this organization's highest compensated employees. This compensation data includes salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and is displayed exactly how it is reported to the IRS. The amounts do not include nontaxable benefits, deferred compensation, or other amounts not reported on Form W-2. In some cases, these amounts may include compensation from related organizations. Read the IRS policies for compensation reporting
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2020
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Activities:
Activity data not reported from the IRS
Foundation Status:
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (City Wildlife Inc.) or EIN (262641235) in the 'Search Term' field.
This organization was impacted by COVID-19 in a way that effected their financial health in 2020. This normally would have reduced their star rating. Due to the unprecedented nature of the pandemic, we give charities such as this one the opportunity to share the story of COVID's impact on them, and doing this pauses our revision of their rating. Charities may submit their own pandemic responses through their nonprofit portal.
City Wildlife Inc. reported being impacted by COVID-19 in the following ways:
Program Delivery
Fundraising Capacity
Revenue
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's operations financially:
The pandemic cost City Wildlife a significant amount of income. For many weeks we were not accepting new patients directly from the public for safety reasons; intakes were limited to animals brought in by animal control officers. Admissions remained almost as high as ever, but we lost the donations people would have made when they brought in animals. Beyond that, volunteers were unable to come to the center, and City Wildlife had to increase staff hours to compensate. Between the lost revenue and the increased expense, the financial shortfall came to about $15,000 the first year of the pandemic. What’s more, an annual fundraising event could not be held that year. It was replaced with a virtual event, but the online version raised about $18,000 less than the live event.
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's delivery of programs:
Some of the effects were actually positive. For example, there were many fewer hit-by-car patients during the worst parts of the pandemic than there normally are. And in general, City Wildlife received fewer patients in the pandemic than we usually do, but only by a few hundred and these numbers always fluctuate. The effects on City Wildlife's educational programs, which formerly happened in-person, were more dramatic and negative. In previous years we held a popular open house, where more than 500 visitors were introduced to our work, as well as six - eight seminars on various topics of helping and coexisting with wild animals. None of these were possible under COVID. And during the first season of the pandemic, in spring of 2020, City Wildlife's two citizen science projects, Duck Watch and Lights Out DC, had to suspend operations.
How this organization adapted to changing conditions caused by COVID-19:
Numerous in-house protocols were developed to protect the health of our staff. Visitors were no longer allowed into the center, though after a few months we began going into the parking lot to accept in-coming patients from the public. Duck Watch and Lights Out DC began operations again after one missed season, but with masks and mandatory social distancing. Most dramatically, all of our educational efforts were moved online. The in-person seminars were replaced with successful webinars, and instead of an open house, City Wildlife offered a video tour that included short versions of some of our patients' stories. Despite several attempts, moving fundraising events to online platforms never payed off for City Wildlife. The volunteer program at the rehabilitation center has been re-opened but it is taking a long time to re-build.
Innovations the organization intends to continue permanently after the pandemic:
The online educational efforts have reached a bigger audience than in-person events did, so these will become a permanent part of City Wildlife's offerings. And to these we have added tours for school classes. We never offered those before out of concern for the well-being of our sick and injured patients. But we have now become quite good at doing online tours in a way that is both interesting to the students and unobtrusive to our patients. These have proved to be quite popular and happen about twice a month during the school season. Finally, we have become very comfortable with Zoom meetings, which we now use to coordinate wildlife advocacy work with other organizations. In this way, City Wildlife's ability to do advocacy work has been enhanced.
Not Currently Scored
City Wildlife Inc. cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Results methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
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City Wildlife Inc. reported its three largest programs on its FY 2020 Form 990 as:
Spent in most recent FY
Percent of program expenses
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: CITY WILDLIFE'S REHABILITATION CENTER CARED FOR MORE THAN 1,700 SICK, INJURED, OR ORPHANED WILD ANIMALS IN FY2020. PATIENTS INCLUDE WILD BIRDS - RAPTORS, WATERFOWL, AND ... (More)
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: CITY WILDLIFE'S REHABILITATION CENTER CARED FOR MORE THAN 1,700 SICK, INJURED, OR ORPHANED WILD ANIMALS IN FY2020. PATIENTS INCLUDE WILD BIRDS - RAPTORS, WATERFOWL, AND SONGBIRDS - SMALL MAMMALS, AND NATIVE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. MANY ARE SPECIES OF GREATEST CONSERVATION NEED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. THE GOAL IS TO RELEASE HEALTHY ANIMALS BACK TO THE WILD. THE CENTER, OPEN EVERY DAY 9-5, IS STAFFED BY A FULL-TIME VETERINARIAN AND FOUR SKILLED ANIMAL TECHNICIANS.PROTECTING WILDLIFE: THE PRINCIPAL ROLE OF CITY WILDLIFE'S REHABILITATION CENTER IS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO SICK, INJURED AND ORPHANED NATIVE WILDLIFE. MOST OF OUR PATIENTS' INJURIES ARE CAUSED BY DIRECT OR INDIRECT HUMAN ACTIVITIES. WE WORK TO HEAL THE ANIMALS BUT ALSO TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE IN A WAY THAT ADVANCES UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSION FOR WILDLIFE. WITH EACH INTAKE AND PHONE CALL, WE SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR WILDLIFE NEIGHBORS, BUILD UNDERSTANDING, PROMOTE COMPASSION AND DISPEL IRRATIONAL CONCERNS.PROTECTING PEOPLE: OUR WILDLIFE REHABILITATION PROGRAM SERVES MANY PURPOSES, INCLUDING BEING SENTINELS FOR DETECTING ZOONOTIC DISEASE IN WILDLIFE AS WELL AS BY PROVIDING CITIZENS WITH A PLACE TO BRING WILD ANIMALS THAT THEY MIGHT OTHERWISE TRY TO CARE FOR AT HOME, RISKING POSSIBLE DISEASE OR INJURY TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS.PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: IN ADDITION TO ITS PRIMARY MISSION, CITY WILDLIFE REVIEWS AND COMMENTS ON LOCAL ACTIONS PROPOSED BY GOVERNMENTS AND PRIVATE DEVELOPERS THAT MIGHT HAVE IMPACTS ON WILDLIFE. OUR COMMENTS SUPPORT THE PROTECTION OF THE DISTRICT'S WILDLIFE AS WELL AS ACTIONS THAT CONSERVE HABITAT. (Less)
Spent in most recent FY
Percent of program expenses
DUCK WATCH: DUCK WATCH, AN ALL-VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, ASSISTS PEOPLE IN DC WITH URBAN MALLARD NESTS. VOLUNTEERS MONITOR NESTS, TELL PEOPLE HOW TO PROTECT THE NEST, AND ASSIST THE MALLARD HEN WITH GETTING ... (More)
DUCK WATCH: DUCK WATCH, AN ALL-VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, ASSISTS PEOPLE IN DC WITH URBAN MALLARD NESTS. VOLUNTEERS MONITOR NESTS, TELL PEOPLE HOW TO PROTECT THE NEST, AND ASSIST THE MALLARD HEN WITH GETTING HER DUCKLINGS SAFELY TO WATER. DUCK WATCH SEEKS TO KEEP (Less)
Spent in most recent FY
Percent of program expenses
LIGHTS OUT DC: LIGHTS OUT DC, AN ALL VOLUNTEER CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAM, WORKS WITH THE MANAGERS OF BUILDINGS IN WASHINGTON, DC, TO REDUCE BIRD/GLASS COLLISIONS. DURING MIGRATION, VOLUNTEERS COLLECT DE ... (More)
LIGHTS OUT DC: LIGHTS OUT DC, AN ALL VOLUNTEER CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAM, WORKS WITH THE MANAGERS OF BUILDINGS IN WASHINGTON, DC, TO REDUCE BIRD/GLASS COLLISIONS. DURING MIGRATION, VOLUNTEERS COLLECT DEAD AND INJURED BIRDS - MORE THAN 3,500 SINCE 2010 - THAT (Less)
City Wildlife Inc. has earned a 80% for the Culture & Community beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's culture and connectedness to the community it serves.
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Constituent Feedback and Listening Practice data are not available for this organization. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations that engage in inclusive practices, such as collecting feedback from the people and communities they serve, may be more effective.
100% of beacon score
This organization's score of 80 is a passing score. The organization reported that it is implementing 3 Equity Practices. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations implementing effective equity policies and practices can enhance a nonprofit's decision-making, staff motivation, innovation, and effectiveness.
Equity Practices (1/7) | |
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We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race. | |
We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and/or portfolios. | |
We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization/'s programs, portfolios, and the populations served. | |
We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support. | |
We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders. | |
We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured | |
We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. |
Equity Policies and Procedures (2/7) | |
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We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity. | |
We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions. | |
We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization. | |
We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board. | |
We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability. | |
We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team. | |
We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. |
City Wildlife Inc. has earned a 100% for the Leadership & Adaptability beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
City Wildlife protects and advocates for wildlife and wildlife habitat through rehabilitation for release, public education, and community engagement.
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
A community within which native wildlife, habitat, and ecosystems are valued, protected, and preserved.
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Meet our facilities need for outdoor cages, isolation space, rabies vector species, and disease control.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Two: Increase outreach and communication with low-resourced communities primarily Wards 7 and 8.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Three: Address wildlife habitat threats locally.
Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
We are promoting the use of the board leadership development training offered by Center for Nonprofit Advancement, of which City Wildlife is a member. Interested board members will be taking the training in fall 2022.
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
Strategic Partnerships
Networks of Collective Impact Efforts
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness
Community Building
We collaborate with numerous other local and national wildlife protection agencies, both at the staff and board level, on advocacy, best rehabilitation practices, public outreach through webinars and social media, and resource sharing.
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
COVID-19 protocols developed by staff in consultation with public health officials allowed City Wildlife to remain open every single day of the pandemic, even when many Washington DC businesses and organizations were closed. Outreach and educational efforts, which were held in person in previous years, were moved to online platforms with great success that outpaced expectations. Additionally, City Wildlife took the lead in the nation's capital in developing protocols and an ad hoc network of public health officials and nonprofits to respond to an avian songbird disease epidemic that originated in the Washington DC area and spread to other regions of the country. That network is proving invaluable once again as City Wildlife leads the local response to an new outbreak of avian influenza afflicting waterfowl nationally. As the experience with COVID-19 demonstrates, careful monitoring of local wildlife for outbreaks of diseases can be essential to the protection of public health.
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