Annual report, fiscal year 2025
2025 was our tenth full year and our busiest. We admitted 158 raccoons, released 94% of them, cut median response time by seven hours, and raised the money to build a clinic. This report says how, and what it cost.
January 1 to December 31, 2025. Every figure is drawn from the unified case log adopted in March 2025 and was checked against case records by the Cascadia Wildlife Care Alliance in February 2026.
In October we held a party for our tenth birthday, and I spent most of it thinking about the barn. In 2015 there was no running water in it. We warmed formula on a camp stove. When a raccoon needed an X-ray, I drove it 40 minutes each way and hoped the vet had a slot.
In 2025 we admitted 158 raccoons, more than the first three years combined. We answered the hotline faster than we ever have. We put every case into one log and then invited someone from outside to check our numbers, which is a nerve-racking thing to do and, it turns out, a clarifying one. And 412 of you gave to build a clinic, so that by the time you read this the X-ray machine will be twelve steps from the intake door.
The thing I am proudest of is smaller. Fourteen kits went home to their mothers this year because a responder set up a warming box and a camera and waited instead of reaching for a crate. That is not a rescue in the way we usually mean it. It is better than one.
We did not get everything right. Tiered volunteer training started six months late, and baby season stretched our care staff past what was fair to them. Both are in the 2026 priorities. Thank you for reading this far, and for the ten years.
Mara ChenFounder and Executive Director, May 2026
We set six priorities in the 2024 report. Here is each one, what we said, and what happened.
| Priority | What we said in 2024 | What happened in 2025 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinic capacity and learning lab | Raise $120,000 for surgical space, imaging, and juvenile housing, staged over two quarters. | Campaign closed November 2025 at $131,400. Construction began January 2026; clinic wing opened July 14, 2026. | Met |
| Faster field response | Add part-time dispatch and train ten capture specialists; lower median response from 24 to 18 hours. | Part-time dispatch started April. Eleven capture specialists trained. Median response 17 hours for the year, 16 in Q4. | Met |
| Habitat corridors | Secure two parcels, restore 20 acres, monitor every release for six weeks. | Alder Flats (14 acres) and Riverbend East (30 acres, leased) secured. 24 acres restored. Six-week monitoring on 100% of releases from July. | Met |
| Volunteer depth and safety | Grow to 350 active volunteers, introduce three-tier training, reduce turnover with mentorship. | 362 active at year end. Mentorship cohorts from March. Tiered training only fully launched in September, later than planned. | Partly met |
| School and family programs | Publish a family coexistence toolkit and a teacher field lab guide; measure learning gains. | Toolkit published March (1,900 downloads). Field lab guide published September, adopted by four districts. Pre- and post-assessment run with 610 students; average gain 31 points. | Met |
| Data and transparency | Adopt a unified case log, publish quarterly dashboards, invite a third-party reviewer. | Case log live March 2025. Four quarterly dashboards published. Cascadia Wildlife Care Alliance reviewed outcomes in February 2026 and confirmed the 94% release rate. | Met |
The hotline took 1,140 calls in 2025, up 19%. Not every call is a rescue: 41% were resolved with advice, and 14 ended in a kit being reunited with its mother. Part-time dispatch from April meant evening calls were answered by a trained person instead of a voicemail, which is most of why response time fell. Eleven new capture specialists brought the field roster to 31.
Dr. Ortega and partner veterinarians at Mossy Creek Veterinary Hospital handled 158 intakes, 47 imaging sessions off site, and 19 surgeries. Case reviews every two weeks refined our release readiness scoring. The most common diagnoses were dehydration and malnutrition in kits, soft-tissue trauma from vehicles, and entanglement wounds. Nine animals were euthanized on welfare grounds; each case was reviewed by two veterinarians.
Two new parcels and 24 restored acres took protected habitat to 92 acres. 88% of releases went to one of the three corridors, up from 71% in 2024. Trail cameras at release sites logged 1,860 raccoon detections, and for the first time we can say with data that corridor releases den sooner and range less than releases elsewhere.
3,400 people took part in 2025: 41 school visits, 22 coexistence workshops, 48 Saturday tours, and the tenth-anniversary Den Party in October. The family coexistence toolkit was downloaded 1,900 times, and teachers in four districts adopted the field lab guide. Students who did the field lab scored 31 points higher on a raccoon-safety assessment afterward than before.
Reason for admission, all 158 cases. A quieter fire year and a large baby season changed the mix from 2024, when wildfire displacement was 41%.
Adult male, fishing line wrapped through the foreleg. Line removed under light sedation, eleven days of wound care, released at the boat ramp after volunteers cleared it of discarded line.
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Older female with a tibial fracture. Three off-site imaging trips, a splint, and four weeks of rehabilitation. The case we cited most often when asking donors for on-site imaging.
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Four orphans from three calls, raised as one cohort so they would learn foraging from each other. Released together at Alder Flats on November 8 and still denning together at Christmas.
Read moreOperating activity, January 1 to December 31, 2025. Harper & Lowe CPAs completed an independent financial review in November 2025 with no findings. Form 990 was filed in May 2026.
| Source | 2025 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Individual gifts | $121,200 | $94,300 |
| Den Keepers monthly giving (from February) | $17,700 | $0 |
| Grants | $62,500 | $31,800 |
| Events and community fundraisers | $27,300 | $22,500 |
| In-kind and other | $7,700 | $0 |
| Total | $236,400 | $148,600 |
| Category | 2025 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Program services (75%) | $166,400 | $102,100 |
| Fundraising (12.5%) | $27,700 | $19,200 |
| Management and general (12.5%) | $27,700 | $20,600 |
| Total | $221,800 | $141,900 |
Designated by the board to the operating reserve, which stood at 4.2 months of expenses on December 31, 2025. The 2024 target of four to six months by mid-2026 was reached early.
The Clinic and Learning Lab campaign is tracked separately from operations. 412 donors gave $91,400; the Pacific Northwest Wildlife Fund gave a $40,000 capital grant. Construction cost $118,900; the balance is reserved for equipment.
Program services divided by admissions. Kits average about $720; adults with surgery or long rehabilitation average about $1,900.
Five commitments, each with a number we will report against in next year's report.
Complete construction by June, take 90% of imaging on site by year end, and cut the average time from intake to first diagnostic image to under two hours.
Keep median response at or below 15 hours across the whole year, including October to December, by adding a second evening dispatcher and 40 new Tier 1 volunteers in the fall cohort.
Make the reunion attempt standard for every healthy kit call, target 25 or more reunions, and publish the protocol so other centers can use it.
Open the seasonal care roster in April rather than May, and add two pre-release enclosures, so that no enclosure holds more than six kits at peak.
Reach a five-month operating reserve by December 31, 2026 through the Winter Den Fund, and publish all hotline and "found a raccoon" guidance in Spanish by spring 2027.
1,214 individual donors, 143 Den Keepers, 362 volunteers, and the partners below made 2025 possible. Institutional and major supporters are listed with their permission.
Foggy Valley Animal Rescue, 1287 Mossy Creek Road, Foggy Valley, OR 97401. 501(c)(3) nonprofit (fictional), EIN 00-0000000. Founded 2015.
Fiscal year January 1 to December 31, 2025. Financial figures from reviewed statements; program figures from the unified case log.
June 2, 2026. Approved by the board of directors on May 19, 2026.
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