Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$686,109

Total expenses

$664,883

Contributions and grants received

$661,277

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,048

Other revenue

$23,784

Total assets, end of year

$399,105

Total liabilities, end of year

$4,337

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$394,768

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$570,118

Management and general expenses

$44,574

Fundraising expenses

$50,191

Program service expenses (Part III)

$570,118

Program services were 85.7% 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

• NATURE MAPPING JACKSON HOLE PROGRAM: A CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAM WITH THE GOALS OF: 1)KEEPING COMMON SPECIES COMMON; 2)INCREASING CITIZEN'S KNOWLEDGE OF AND APPRECIATION FOR WILDLIFE IN TETON COUNTY, WYOMING; 3)ENGAGING CITIZENS IN LONG-TERM WILDLIFE DATA COLLECTION; 4)INFORMING MANAGEMENT DECISIONS THAT FAVOR WILDLIFE SUSTAINABILITY; AND 5)CONTRIBUTING DATA TO THE WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT'S WILDLIFE OBSERVATION SYSTEM TO AUGMENT STATE DATA. THROUGH NATURE MAPPING JACKSON, WE HAVE RECORDED MORE THAN 103,523 WILDLIFE OBSERVATIONS WITH MORE THAN 1,300 TRAINED CITIZEN SCIENTISTS, OVER THE YEARS, SINCE THE PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2009. IN 2023, WE TRAINED 94 CITIZEN SCIENTISTS THROUGH 8 VIRTUAL AND ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING SESSIONS. WE BANDED 437 INDIVIDUAL BIRDS IN 2023 AT OUR MONITORING AVIAN PRODUCTIVITY AND SURVIVORSHIP (MAPS) BIRD BANDING STATIONS. OUR MOOSE DAY PROJECT INCLUDED 112 MOOSE OBSERVATIONS BY 131 VOLUNTEERS TO SUPPLEMENT AGENCY AERIAL SURVEYS. ALSO, STAFF AND 16 VOLUNTEERS MONITORED 111 NEST BOXES VIA THE MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD NESTBOX MONITORING PROJECT.

  Expenses $122,872 · Revenue $1,048

• WILDLIFE FRIENDLIER FENCING PROGRAM: IMPROVING LANDSCAPE PERMEABILITY FOR MIGRATING WILDLIFE THROUGH MODIFICATION AND REMOVAL OF FENCES. THROUGH 2023, WE HAVE IMPROVED MORE THAN 244 MILES OF FENCES TO BENEFIT WILDLIFE. IN 2023, VOLUNTEERS CONTRIBUTED 587 VOLUNTEER HOURS ON 10 PROJECTS TO IMPROVE 8.49 MILES OF FENCE. WE WORK WITH MANY KEY AGENCY PARTNERS AND PRIVATE LANDOWNERS THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.

  Expenses $116,342

• GIVE WILDLIFE A BRAKE: UTILIZING VARIOUS MITIGATION TOOLS, WE AIM TO REDUCE WILDLIFE-VEHICLE COLLISIONS ON OUR ROADWAYS. THESE TOOLS INCLUDE DIGITAL MESSAGE BOARDS, FIXED RADAR SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS, SPEED LIMIT REDUCTIONS, WILDLIFE CROSSING STRUCTURE PLANNING. WE ALSO CONTINUE TO COMPILE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE WILDLIFE-VEHICLE COLLISION REPORT IN THE COUNTY TO INFORM TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION EFFORTS. THE 2021-2022 WILDLIFE-VEHICLE COLLISION (WVC) REPORT WAS SHARED WITH AGENCY PARTNERS AND THE PUBLIC LAST YEAR. THESE DATA WERE USED IN 2023 BY OUR PARTNERS TO GUIDE PLANNING AND CREATE POSSIBLE WAYS TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND ROADS ON WILDLIFE.

  Expenses $159,588

• BEAR WISE JACKSON HOLE: IS A DECADES LONG PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT, BRIDGER-TETON NATIONAL FOREST, GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, AND JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNATION. WE ARE A SUBSIDIARY OF THE BEARWISE WYOMING PROGRAM. THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM IS TO PROVIDE RESOURCES, OUTREACH AND COORDINATION INTENDED TO KEEP BEARS WILD AND PEOPLE SAFE. THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL IN TERMS OF HOW MANY PEOPLE WE REACHED WITH BEAR SAFETY/CONFLICT REDUCTION MESSAGING AND WHEN WE LEARNED THAT TETON COUNTY ESSENTIALLY CORNERED THE MARKET ON BEAR RESISTANT TRASH CANS, WE KNEW WE HAD NOT ONLY CONVEYED MESSAGING, BUT THAT THE MESSAGES LED TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR CHANGES. IN ONE YEAR, IN 2023, WE ESTIMATED REACH TO OVER 700,000 RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES, AND VISITORS.

  Expenses $171,316

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

8 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

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