Form 990 for tax year 2023

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 17 July 2024. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Totals

Total revenue

$38,271,115

Total expenses

$29,148,979

Contributions and grants received

$38,085,942

Grants paid

$1,902,126

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$220,819

Other revenue

-$35,646

Total assets, end of year

$24,549,407

Total liabilities, end of year

$5,184,284

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$19,365,123

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$24,004,317

Management and general expenses

$3,842,853

Fundraising expenses

$1,301,809

Program service expenses (Part III)

$24,004,317

Program services were 82.4% 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 · 2023

• LION - PANTHERA COMBINES AN UNDERSTANDING OF LION ECOLOGY IN HUMAN DOMINATED LANDSCAPES WITH TECHNIQUES THAT PROVIDE LOCAL COMMUNITIES WITH THE ABILITY AND INCENTIVE TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH LIONS. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO CURTAIL WIDESPREAD WIRE-SNARE POACHING, WHICH IS PERVASIVE IN MANY KEY LION LANDSCAPES, INCLUDING PROTECTED AREAS SUCH AS KAFUE NATIONAL PARK (ZAMBIA) AND NIOKOLO-KOBA NATIONAL PARK (SENEGAL).

  Expenses $5,520,838 · Grants $599,667

• JAGUAR - PANTHERA UTILIZES A RANGE-WIDE APPROACH FOCUSING ON THE KEY POPULATIONS AND INTERVENING GENETIC CORRIDORS. PANTHERA WORKS CLOSELY WITH RANCHERS AND OTHER RURAL COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP COEXISTENCE STRATEGIES THAT CAN BE DEPLOYED AT LARGE SPATIAL SCALES, ESPECIALLY WITH RESPECT TO COSTA RICA, HONDURAS, COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL.

  Expenses $2,414,791 · Grants $50,500

• TIGER - PANTHERA, THROUGH VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, SEEKS TO INCREASE WILD TIGER POPULATIONS BY AT LEAST 50% ACROSS KEY SITES OVER THE NEXT DECADE. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA IDENTIFIES AND CREATES SAFE CORRIDORS FOR THE SPECIES TO MOVE BETWEEN CORE POPULATIONS.

  Expenses $2,176,423 · Grants $494,098

• CHEETAH - PANTHERA SEEKS TO PROTECT CHEETAHS BY ADDRESSING DIRECT THREATS TO THEM, THEIR PREY BASE AND THEIR HABITATS. TO DO THIS, PANTHERA GATHERS CRITICAL ECOLOGICAL DATA BY SURVEYING AND MONITORING POPULATIONS AND THEIR PREY, COLLABORATING WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND PARTNERS, AND WORKING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO MITIGATE CONFLICT AND CREATE CHEETAH-POSITIVE AND SCAPES WITHIN COMMUNITIES.PANTHERA'S APPROACH TO PROTECTING CHEETAHS FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED TRANSBOUNDARY PROGRAM BASED IN ZAMBIA, BUT OPERATING OVER THE 5-COUNTRY KAZA LANDSCAPE, WHICH IS THE LANDSCAPE IN THE KAVANGO AND ZAMBEZI RIVER BASINS, AND EVENTUALLY EXPANDING ACROSS THE CHEETAH'S AFRICAN RANGE. MIXED SPECIES LANDSCAPE WITH MULTIPLE CAT SPECIES BENEFITING FROM PANTHERA'S INTERVENTIONS.SNOW LEOPARD - PANTHERA DEVELOPED A STATE-OF-THE-ART GLOBAL RANGE MAP AND DATABASE OF SNOW LEOPARD HABITATS AND HELPS DELINEATE CRITICAL CONSERVATION UNITS AND IDENTIFY PREVAILING THREATS. USING THE DATABASE TO TARGET POPULATIONS THAT REQUIRE CONSERVATION, PANTHERA'S EFFORTS ARE GEARED TOWARDS A RANGE-WIDE APPROACH IN CONSERVING THE SNOW LEOPARDS.PUMA - PANTHERA IS WORKING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND PROTECT PUMAS IN THE WESTERN U.S. (NORTHWEST WYOMING, THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND OLYMPIC PENINSULA) AND IN THE TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK REGION IN THE CHILEAN PATAGONIA. PANTHERA'S WORK INCLUDES STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF WOLF REINTRODUCTION AND HUMAN HUNTING ON PUMA POPULATIONS, UTILIZING INNOVATIVE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY TO OBSERVE THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PUMAS, CHARACTERIZING DISPERSAL DYNAMICS AND IMPEDIMENTS, AND MITIGATING HUMAN-PUMA CONFLICT. A RANGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF PUMAS, FROM PATAGONIA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA IS ALSO UNDERWAY.PANTHERA'S WORK INCLUDES STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF WOLF REINTRODUCTION AND HUMAN HUNTING ON PUMA POPULATIONS, UTILIZING INNOVATIVE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY TO OBSERVE THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PUMAS, CHARACTERIZING DISPERSAL DYNAMICS AND IMPEDIMENTS, AND MITIGATING HUMAN-PUMA CONFLICT. A RANGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF PUMAS, FROM PATAGONIA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA, IS ALSO UNDERWAY.SMALL CATS - PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO UNDERSTAND AND CONSERVE THE 33 SPECIES OF SMALL WILD CATS. PRIORITIES FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE TO FOCUS ON THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD CATS, TO ENHANCE CURRENT DATA COLLECTION ON BIG CAT STUDY SITES TO GATHER SMALL CAT DATA, AND TO STRATEGICALLY ESTABLISH NEW SITES OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE FOR SMALL CATS. TECH - PANTHERA'S TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM DEVELOPED DEVICES AND SOFTWARE SUPPORTING SPECIES PROGRAMS, INCLUDING CAMERA TRAPS AND POACHERCAMS. PANTHERA INTEGRATES THIRD PARTY PRIVATE GSM (GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE) WIRELESS EQUIPMENT, AS WELL AS SYSTEMS TO MONITOR POACHERCAM DEPLOYMENTS.SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS - PANTHERA PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS TO POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ADVANCED DEGREE PROGRAMS TO WORK ON RESEARCH AND PROJECTS IN THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF LARGE CAT SPECIES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS. PANTHERA, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, DEVELOPED A GLOBAL FELID GENETIC DATABASE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF LARGE SCALE GENETIC ISSUES IMPACTING FELIDS, AND NOW WORKS THROUGH THE NATIONAL GENOMICS CENTER FOR WILDLIFE AND FISH CONSERVATION IN MISSOULA, MONTANA, FOR MOST OF ITS GENETIC ANALYSIS NEEDS.THE INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS ARE ESTABLISHED AND OVERSEEN BY TWO DIVISIONS: CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION ACTION. CONSERVATION SCIENCE IS THE GROUP THAT EVALUATES, FROM A SCIENTIFIC BASIS, THE SCIENCE RESEARCH OUTCOMES AND HOW THEY WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP ACTIVITIES THAT INTEGRATE INTO CONSERVATION ACTION. THE CONSERVATION ACTION DIVISION CONTAINS PANTHERA'S GLOBAL AND REGIONAL FIELD PROGRAMS, ASSOCIATED PERSONNEL AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO IMPLEMENT THE CONSERVATION ACTION PLANS DEVELOPED BY THE CONSERVATION SCIENCE DIVISION.

  Expenses $13,892,265 · Grants $757,861

As filed on the 2023 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

• FISHING CAT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE

  $150,000

  CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• QUINAULT INDIAN NATION

  $62,485

  CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

  $39,559

  CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION

  $16,915

  CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• HOME RANGE WILDLIFE RESEARCH

  $10,000

  CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO

  $6,354

  CONSERVATION RESEARCH

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• PANTHERA WILDLIFE TRUST LTD

  CAT CONSERVATION · UK · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA BRASIL

  CAT CONSERVATION · BR · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• FUNDACION PANTERA COLOMBIA

  CAT CONSERVATION · CO · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA WILD CAT CONSERVATION ZAMBIA LIMITED

  CAT CONSERVATION · ZA · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA WILDCAT CONSERVATION SA

  CAT CONSERVATION · SF · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA CANADA

  CAT CONSERVATION · CA · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA FRANCE

  CAT CONSERVATION · FR · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA HONDURAS

  CAT CONSERVATION · HO · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA WILD CAT CONSERVATION BELIZE

  CAT CONSERVATION · BH · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA WILD CAT CONSERVATION MALAYSIA

  CAT CONSERVATION · MY · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• CONSERVACION PANTHERA MEXICO AC

  CAT CONSERVATION · MX · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA WILD CAT CONSERVATION SENEGAL

  CAT CONSERVATION · SG · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA THAILAND

  CAT CONSERVATION · TH · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA COSTA RICA

  CAT CONSERVATION · CS · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

• PANTHERA GABON

  CAT CONSERVATION · GB · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by PANTHERA CORPORATION

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

9 July 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202411929349300601

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