A US 501(c)(3) charity · EIN 87-3289299
One of the world’s largest raptor hospitals
runs on donations.
It is called Wildlife Rescue, it is in Delhi, and it is the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes. We are its American partner. Your gift pays for the medicine, the surgery and the aviary time that puts a bird back in the sky.
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization — gifts are tax-deductible in the US
- IRS Form 990 filings public and independently mirrored
- Unpaid US officers, no fundraising staff, no American office
Why we exist
A great clinic should not have to depend on a great film.
Raptor Rescue and Research Inc. was formed to close that gap. We are a small American charity with one job: turn support raised in the United States into working capital for raptor rescue on the ground — reliably, transparently, and without a layer of overhead in between.
Today that means funding Wildlife Rescue in Delhi. As we grow, it will mean supporting raptor rehabilitation in other places where the need is enormous and the funding is not.
Our partner in numbers
By birds received, the largest raptor rescue facility in the world.
40,000+
Birds received since 2010
Wildlife Rescue crossed forty thousand cases in June 2026.
4,184
Birds treated in 2025 alone
Their busiest year on record, and the numbers keep climbing.
138
Distinct species treated
From Black Kites to Endangered Egyptian Vultures.
40%
Of documented injuries are from manja
Glass-coated kite string that cuts wings to the bone.
The work itself
Manja cuts a wing to the bone. They rebuild it, layer by layer.
For most of the history of raptor rehabilitation, that injury ended the bird. Wildlife Rescue spent years developing a staged surgical repair of the propatagium that restores real, releasable flight — and then took it to the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association to teach it to everyone else.
This is the difference between a shelter and a hospital. It is also why we chose them.
Academy Award nominee
All That Breathes
- Academy Award Nomination — Best Documentary Feature
- BAFTA Nomination — Best Documentary
- Grand Jury Prize — Sundance Film Festival, World Cinema Documentary
- Golden Eye — Cannes Film Festival, Best Documentary
- Peabody Award — Documentary
- Jackson Wild Media Award — Best Conservation Film
Give
Choose what you would like to pay for.
$35
Intake and triage
Supports the first hours of care for a bird arriving at the clinic — examination, fluids, pain relief and stabilisation.
$100
Wound care
Helps fund the sutures, dressings, antibiotics and daily bandage changes that a manja-cut wing needs over weeks of healing.
$250
Surgical support
Contributes to the anaesthesia, imaging and surgical consumables behind a wing repair — the procedure our partner pioneered.
$500
Flight and release
Supports the aviary time, feeding and conditioning a raptor needs between surgery and the day it is released back over Delhi.
One-time or monthly · Donor-advised funds, stock and employer matching all welcome
Transparency
Read the filing before you give.
- Total revenue
- $83,509
- Total expenses
- $56,370
- Net assets
- $54,125
- From contributions
- 100%
Fiscal year 2024, as filed with the IRS on November 4, 2025.
Latest
News and updates
Milestone · June 18, 2026
Forty thousand birds
In June 2026 our partner in Delhi admitted its forty-thousandth patient — a Shikra with an injured shoulder. Here is what that number actually represents.
Transparency · November 4, 2025
Our first full year, in numbers
Raptor Rescue and Research filed its Form 990-EZ for the fiscal year ending December 2024. Here is what came in, what went out, and where it went.
Research · February 20, 2025
A surgical technique, presented to the field
At the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association symposium, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud presented the staged propatagium repair they developed in Delhi.
Six barn owls, ready for release.
That photograph exists because people who will never visit Delhi decided to pay for it. You can be one of them.