Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$16,341,700

Total expenses

$5,359,109

Contributions and grants received

$15,814,888

Grants paid

$3,534,956

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$525,812

Other revenue

$1,000

Total assets, end of year

$25,866,866

Total liabilities, end of year

$6,267,384

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$19,599,482

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,524,277

Management and general expenses

$619,391

Fundraising expenses

$215,441

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,524,277

Program services were 84.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• APPLIED STEM CELL CONSERVATION FUND: REVIVE & RESTORE IS ADVANCING A BOLD NEW FRONTIER IN COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY: BUILDING THE FIRST PLATFORM FOR STEM CELL INNOVATION ACROSS THE EVOLUTIONARY TREE TO CAPTURE AND RESTORE BIODIVERSITY. OUR APPLIED STEM CELL CONSERVATION FUND SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TOOLS, INCLUDING INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL (IPSC) TECHNOLOGIES AND AI ASSISTED MODELS, TO TRANSFORM HOW CONSERVATION SCIENCE RESPONDS TO EXTINCTION, DISEASE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE.

  Expenses $1,895,556 · Grants $1,806,437 · Revenue $1,000

• BIOTECH FOR BIRD CONSERVATION:WE'VE ASSEMBLED LEADING SCIENTISTS TO DEVELOP GENETIC RESCUE BIOTECHNOLOGIES FOR ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT BIRDS. OUR BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIRD CONSERVATION PROGRAM IS GUIDED BY AN INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM CONNECTING BIOTECHNOLOGISTS WITH AVIAN CONSERVATION SPECIALISTS. THIS COMMUNITY SHAPES OUR WORK AND ENSURES OUR TECHNOLOGIES TRANSITION TO MEANINGFUL CONSERVATION USE. WE AIM TO TRANSFORM THE FUTURE OF BIRD CONSERVATION THROUGH ADVANCED REPRODUCTIVE AND GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES.

  Expenses $807,679 · Grants $564,883

• LAUNCHED IN 2019, THE ADVANCED CORAL TOOLKIT SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND FIELD TESTING OF NEW BIOTECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GREATLY BENEFIT CORAL RESILIENCE AND RESTORATION EFFORTS. WE FOSTER A COLLABORATIVE, GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE WORKING TO RESTORE REEFS ON MEANINGFUL SCALES BY COMBINING BIOTECHNOLOGIES AND TRADITIONAL CONSERVATION. SEVERAL PROJECTS ARE UNDERGOING FIELD TESTS WITH RESTORATION PARTNERS, WHOSE INSIGHTS WILL MAXIMIZE THE CONSERVATION IMPACT OF THEIR INNOVATIONS. WITH GENEROUS RENEWED FUNDING, WE ANTICIPATE LAUNCHING NEW PROJECTS IN 2026.

  Expenses $699,261 · Grants $642,625

• ADDITIONAL PROGRAM AREAS WITH ONGOING WORK INCLUDE BIOBANKING, BLACK-FOOTED FERRET RECOVERY, AND WILD GENOMES, WHILE DEVELOPMENT IS UNDERWAY FOR A NEW PROGRAM AREA THAT WILL LAUNCH IN EARLY 2026, INCORPORATING AI FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

  Expenses $1,121,781 · Grants $521,011

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• VIAGEN PETS & EQUINE

  $296,196

  SERVICE PROVIDER FOR MULTIPLE PROGRAMS INCLUDING THE BLACK-FOOTED FERRET AND THE WYOMING TOAD RECOVERY

• SECORE INTERNATIONAL

  $205,390

  GRANT AWARD FROM THE ADVANCED CORAL TOOLKIT FOR RESEARCHING CORAL LARVAL EXCHANGE

• UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

  $192,007

  GRANT AWARD FROM BIOTECH FOR BIRD PROGRAM EXTENDED WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR A PASSENGER PIGEON FOREST PROJECT

• THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

  $183,951

  EXISTING GRANT AWARD ISSUED ADDITIONAL FUNDS AND A NEW PROJECT AWARDED FROM BBC FOR THE COMPETION RESEARCH RELATED TO TRANSPLANTS FOR AVIAN RESTORATIONS

• SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE

  $149,875

  GRANT AWARD FROM BIOTECH FOR BIRDS PROGRAM TO ADVANCE TECHNIQUES TO FACILITATE THE GENETIC RESCUE OF ENDANGERED BIRDS.

• MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY

  $148,030

  GRANT AWARD FOR PROJECT PARTNER IN FWS GRANT TO EXPAND BIOBANKING CAPABILITIES FOR THE WYOMING TOAD

• BIOCHORIC INC

  $121,000

  SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH A PROJECT PARTNER FOR FWS GRANT TO EXPAND BIOBANKING CAPABILITIES FOR THE WYOMING TOAD

• UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

  $85,312

  GRANT AWARD FOR PROJECT PARTNER IN FWS GRANT TO EXPAND BIOBANKING CAPABILITIES FOR THE WYOMING TOAD

• APPLIED ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

  $79,825

  MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT FROM BIOTECH FOR BIRD PROGRAM FOR NEW SCOPE OF WORK FOR THE PASSENGER PIGEON PROJECT

• SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY

  $46,000

  GRANT AWARD EXTENDED WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR CORAL BIOMARKER RESEARCH

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

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

27 May 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.1

Source object

202611499349300336

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