Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$4,540,023

Total expenses

$3,599,458

Contributions and grants received

$4,447,750

Grants paid

$51,868

Program service revenue

$72,596

Investment income

$16,799

Other revenue

$2,878

Total assets, end of year

$3,443,840

Total liabilities, end of year

$156,954

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,286,886

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,842,824

Management and general expenses

$716,565

Fundraising expenses

$40,069

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,842,824

Program services were 79.0% 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 · 2024

• Western Wildway: We have continued to collect high-quality data that will allow us to make valuable insights into improving siting and mitigation practices for Utility-Scale Solar Energy projects. We expanded our Pacific marten surveys to private lands in New Mexico and into Colorado. We completed validation on our Gunnison's prairie dog deep learning model and have begun developing a model for black-tailed prairie dogs in eastern New Mexico. We completed our study of translocated beavers in Utah and surveyed 158 miles of barbed wire fence in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. We captured over 53,000 photos of 60 species at the border wall. We coordinated stakeholder calls and educational meetings with legislative leadership in support of Utah SB 6. We facilitated the New Mexico Safe Passage Coalition to organize NGO and legislator support for wildlife crossing funding within the state budget, successfully securing a $5 million appropriation, and we provided support and technical grant writing assistance to Utah Department of Transportation to secure a $5.5 million Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program grant.

  Expenses $896,466 · Grants $28,868 · Revenue $5,000

• Eastern Wildway: We completed our third year of research at Gorges State Park, monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of four small wildlife road crossing culverts. We identified wildlife crossing opportunities within North Carolinas state parks and presented the opportunities to the High Country Rural Planning Association in Boone, the NC State Parks Symposium at Haw River State Park, and the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Building on our research efforts, we worked with NCDOT staff to create and edit three renderings of wildlife crossing designs for the I-40 corridor. We coordinated with partners to raise over $2.3 million in private funds to support a $25 million application from NCDOT to the Willdife Crossing Pilot Program for US-64 wildlife crossings, which was successful. We conducted an advertising campaign for the existing Prey for the Pack incentives program, with five qualifying landowners responding to these efforts, adding as much as 1,698 acres to the Prey for the Pack program. Our Future Forest Reimagined initiative launched a virtual workshop series for eight UNESCO Biosphere regions in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, as well as partners in New York and Vermont, within or bordering the Northern Appalachian-Acadian-Wabanaki bioregion.

  Expenses $642,998

• Pacific Wildway: We worked closely with partners to draft the Room to Roam Act (AB 1889), which requires local city and county governments in California to add "fish, wildlife, and habitat connectivity" considerations to the conservation element of their general plans. We finished collecting camera and roadkill data in Lassen and Sierra Counties for the second year of our US-395 road ecology study. We continued monitoring of South Lake Tahoe in partnership with Pathways for Wildlife and California Tahoe Conservancy, which has allowed us to preliminarily identify several important existing functional habitat linkages and movement barriers in the South Basin. We formed the Northern Sierra Wildlife Coalition in March 2024 to advocate for recreation planning that avoids, minimizes, and mitigates the ecological impacts of recreation and other uses on wildlife, wilderness values, and other natural resource values in the Northern Sierra. We worked closely with California agency staff to advance wildlife connectivity and support the implementation of AB 2344.

  Expenses $470,106 · Revenue $59,266

• Other Programs: We were able to secure introduction of the first ever bipartisan and bicameral introduction of a wildlife corridors bill in Congress, the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act. We helped 8 states and one Tribe secure roughly $74 million in grants from the $350 million Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program. In Mexico, we secured written commitments from four ranching families to participate in the Sonora EcoExists initiative to restore water sources on their properties, impacting 42,900 acres in the Cocspera Basin. We protected thick-billed parrots from wildfire alongside partners and the Tutuaca and Conoachi communities in Chihuahua. Informed by our advocacy for land protection mechanisms, Sonora reformed its laws to introduce economic incentives for landowners who voluntarily certify their lands for conservation. Due to outreach efforts in collaboration with the Mexican Association of Road Engineering, Article 22 Bis was added to the Federal Roads, Bridges and Auto-transportation Law, mandating that wildlife crossings be built in all new and modernized federal highways.

  Expenses $833,254 · Grants $23,000 · Revenue $8,330

As filed on the 2024 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

• National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

  $23,000

  Support

• Navajo Fish & Wildlife

  $18,000

  Support

• Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

  $7,500

  Support

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

28 March 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

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