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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by SAOLA FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,005,247
Total expenses
$910,033
Contributions and grants received
$969,630
Grants paid
$38,717
Program service revenue
$27,149
Investment income
$8,468
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$533,996
Total liabilities, end of year
$27,606
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$506,390
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$764,849
Management and general expenses
$98,281
Fundraising expenses
$46,903
Program service expenses (Part III)
$764,849

Program services were 84.0% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $969,630

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE FEES

    total $22,485 · related or exempt $22,485

  • 2b · Program service revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $4,664 · related or exempt $4,664

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $8,468 · excluded $8,468

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $20,000 · program services $20,000

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $18,717 · program services $18,717

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $60,000 · program services $20,000 · management and general $20,000 · fundraising $20,000

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $416,694 · program services $366,091 · management and general $24,404 · fundraising $26,199

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $14,141 · program services $14,141

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $9,368 · management and general $9,368

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $2,110 · management and general $2,110

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $20,510 · management and general $20,510

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,079 · management and general $6,079

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $31,122 · program services $23,342 · management and general $7,780

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $3,302 · program services $2,598 · fundraising $704

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $11,900 · program services $8,925 · management and general $2,975

  • 17 · Travel

    total $19,583 · program services $19,583

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $23,286 · program services $19,371 · management and general $3,915

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,140 · management and general $1,140

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROJECT FIELD EXPENSES

    total $210,074 · program services $210,074

  • 24b · Other expenses: DNA TESTING EXPENSE

    total $21,940 · program services $21,940

  • 24c · Other expenses: TRAINING AND DEVELOPMEN

    total $13,991 · program services $13,991

  • 24d · Other expenses: OTHER EXPENSES

    total $6,076 · program services $6,076

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $9,835 · end of year $77,338

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $450,363 · end of year $435,671

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $20,987

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $49,022 · end of year $27,606

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $91,176 · end of year $186,390

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $320,000 · end of year $320,000

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO PROTECT THE RICH BIODIVERSITY OF THE ANNAMITE MOUNTAINS BY LEADING EFFORTS TO PREVENT UNRECOVERABLE BIODIVERSITY LOSS THROUGH A COMBINATION OF DIRECT INTERVENTIONS, EMPOWERING NATIONAL CONSERVATIONISTS, CONDUCTING APPLIED RESEARCH AND PRIORITY SETTING, AND COLLABORATING WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE SAOLA FOUNDATION IS TO HELP SAVE SAOLA IN THE WILD, AND TO CONSERVE OTHER THREATENED WILDLIFE IN THE FORESTS OF THE ANNAMITE MOUNTAINS.

  • SIGNED THE SAOLA FOUNDATION'S FIRST MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF LAO, ESTABLISHING THE OFFICIAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE SAOLA SEARCH PROGRAM AND STRENGTHENING COLLABORATION AT NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL, AND DISTRICT LEVELS.CONDUCTED THE MOST INTENSIVE SEARCH FOR THE SAOLA EVER UNDERTAKEN, ADVANCING FIELD OPERATIONS, SCIENTIFIC METHODS, AND ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE NAM CHOUANNAM XANG (NCNX) LANDSCAPE.INVESTED HEAVILY IN LAO NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND TECHNICAL CAPACITY; STRENGTHENED ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE THROUGH THE APPOINTMENT OF TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS AND THE RECRUITMENT OF THE FOUNDATION'S FIRST FUNDRAISING AND COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR.ESTABLISHED ANNAMITE MOUNTAINS CONSERVATION LTD. (AMC LTD.), A LAO-BASED NOT-FOR-PROFIT SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM NATIONAL CONSERVATION DELIVERY.CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIPS, SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION, AND NATIONAL LEADERSHIP, POSITIONING THE FOUNDATION FOR LONG-TERM, MULTI-SPECIES CONSERVATION IMPACT IN THE ANNAMITE MOUNTAINS.

    Expenses $764,849 · Grants $38,717

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Steve Burns

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Andrew Holman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Susie Offord-Woolley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Frank Hawkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Inthy Deuansawan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alessandro Badalotti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Yin Hang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Lorraine Scotson

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
2025
Filed
13 August 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202632259349302568

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