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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK.

Totals

Total revenue
$11,566,375
Total expenses
$12,047,180
Contributions and grants received
$11,406,371
Grants paid
$630,305
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$208,694
Other revenue
-$48,690
Total assets, end of year
$14,256,182
Total liabilities, end of year
$954,684
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$13,301,498
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$9,828,691
Management and general expenses
$877,745
Fundraising expenses
$1,340,744
Program service expenses (Part III)
$9,828,691

Program services were 81.6% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $201,977

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $11,204,394

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $1,006,644

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $208,694 · excluded $208,694

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $13,360

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $201,977

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $67,282

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$53,922 · excluded -$53,922

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other income

    total $5,232 · excluded $5,232

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $5,232

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $273,700 · program services $273,700

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $356,605 · program services $356,605

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $604,567 · program services $363,457 · management and general $137,153 · fundraising $103,957

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $4,286,827 · program services $3,707,831 · management and general $167,655 · fundraising $411,341

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $93,065 · program services $77,462 · management and general $5,799 · fundraising $9,804

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $954,307 · program services $794,305 · management and general $59,468 · fundraising $100,534

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $406,563 · program services $338,397 · management and general $25,335 · fundraising $42,831

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $74,389 · program services $67,246 · management and general $7,141 · fundraising $2

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $42,450 · management and general $42,450

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $2,342,618 · program services $2,106,219 · management and general $193,662 · fundraising $42,737

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $383,549 · program services $169,401 · fundraising $214,148

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $94,026 · program services $84,923 · management and general $3,397 · fundraising $5,706

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $329,291 · program services $273,601 · management and general $20,894 · fundraising $34,796

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $432,535 · program services $370,449 · management and general $23,683 · fundraising $38,403

  • 17 · Travel

    total $531,540 · program services $441,491 · management and general $74,840 · fundraising $15,209

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $251,221 · program services $218,325 · management and general $15,911 · fundraising $16,985

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $27,572 · program services $23,614 · management and general $1,510 · fundraising $2,448

  • 24a · Other expenses: Other Direct mail expenses

    total $240,747 · fundraising $240,747

  • 24b · Other expenses: Photography & videograpy

    total $75,787 · program services $75,787

  • 24c · Other expenses: Bank fees

    total $71,632 · management and general $45,166 · fundraising $26,466

  • 24d · Other expenses: Printing and Publications

    total $53,035 · program services $32,770 · management and general $5,371 · fundraising $14,894

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $121,154 · program services $53,108 · management and general $48,310 · fundraising $19,736

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,442,211 · end of year $1,170,193

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $6,891,824 · end of year $9,863,773

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $3,891,828 · end of year $2,883,883

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $1,164 · end of year $17,865

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $176,286 · end of year $96,215

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $75,671

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $75,671

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $5,081 · end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $10,345 · end of year $10,126

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $2,000,288 · end of year $214,127

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $287,425 · end of year $173,418

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $1,323,170 · end of year $781,266

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $9,200,963 · end of year $9,055,364

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,607,469 · end of year $4,246,134

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our mission is to preserve forests, protect the climate and uphold human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

  • FOREST, FINANCE, AGRIBUSINESS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNRANs forest campaign is focused on protecting forests by supporting Indigenous rights, working with local communities, and reforming corporate actions and financial systems that are driving deforestation and worsening climate change. RAN executes effective markets and finance campaigns, in partnership with local organizations, to profile and protect the last remaining intact forest regions and creates leverage in the marketplace that can serve to protect forests, secure community land rights, and help stabilize the global climate.(Continued on Schedule O)

    Expenses $5,025,377 · Grants $119,225

  • CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND FINANCE CAMPAIGNRAN'S CLIMATE AND ENERGY CAMPAIGN IS FOCUSED ON RESEARCHING THE FINANCIAL FLOWS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES BEHIND FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTION AND BUILDING PRESSURE ON THESE INSTITUTIONS TO CHANGE THEIR HARMFUL POLICIES AND PRACTICES. RAN HAS BECOME THE GLOBAL LEADER IN ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO REIN IN AND REVERSE THE DISASTROUS IMPACTS OF INDUSTRIES DRIVING CLIMATE CHANGE BY CUTTING OFF THEIR SUPPLY OF CAPITAL AND INSURANCE. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

    Expenses $2,588,935 · Grants $4,000

  • THER PROGRAMMINGSince 1985, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has undertaken bold campaigns to hold some of the world's biggest corporations accountable for forest destruction, loss of biodiversity, climate change and the exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and workers. RAN is working towards a world where the climate is protected, biodiversity is prioritized and rights are secured and upheld. RAN was an innovator and early proponent of a market campaign approach to international environmental activism. The corporate commitments we negotiate include (continued on Schedule O)

    Expenses $1,462,648

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ginger Cassady

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $220,832
    From this org
    $215,281
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,551
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,281
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,551
    Filer's total
    $220,832

  • Marie Michelson

    Digital Director

    Total calculated
    $182,940
    From this org
    $158,238
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,702
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,238
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,345
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,357
    Filer's total
    $182,940

  • Jennifer Njambi Good

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $174,459
    From this org
    $159,624
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,835
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,624
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,835
    Filer's total
    $174,459

  • Suzanne Garland

    Devo Dir

    Total calculated
    $172,663
    From this org
    $139,208
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,455
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,208
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,861
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,594
    Filer's total
    $172,663

  • Robin Averbeck

    Forest Program Dir

    Total calculated
    $164,305
    From this org
    $155,093
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,212
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,093
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,148
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,064
    Filer's total
    $164,305

  • Eos De Feminis

    Fin Director

    Total calculated
    $162,114
    From this org
    $148,210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,904
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,210
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,977
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,927
    Filer's total
    $162,114

  • Christopher Herrera

    Comm Dir

    Total calculated
    $153,036
    From this org
    $133,685
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,351
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,685
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,861
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,490
    Filer's total
    $153,036

  • Aditi Sen

    Climate Dir

    Total calculated
    $148,537
    From this org
    $141,812
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,725
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elisabeth Rimaud Williams

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $21,070
    From this org
    $19,217
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,853
    Hours/week
    40

  • Avi Mahaningtyas

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Anna Lapp

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Marsela Pecanac

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Scott B Price

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Andre Carothers

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Dan Scales

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Asad Rehman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leila Salazar-Lpez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alberto Saldamando

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

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

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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
14 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403199349305620

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