Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$534,989

Total expenses

$515,766

Contributions and grants received

$523,076

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$5,277

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$6,636

Total assets, end of year

$309,931

Total liabilities, end of year

$126,445

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$183,486

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$459,613

Management and general expenses

$49,649

Fundraising expenses

$6,504

Program service expenses (Part III)

$459,613

Program services were 89.1% 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 · 2025

• THE AFRICAN MANATEE PROGRAM LEADER SUPERVISED SIX GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM THREE COUNTRIES AND CONDUCTED FIELDWORK PROGRAMS IN SENEGAL AND GUINEA. AFRICAN MANATEE GENETICS, FEEDING ECOLOGY, AND AGE DETERMINATION STUDIES CONTINUED WITH COLLABORATORS FROM SIX AFRICAN COUNTRIES. AS PART OF GENETICS RESEARCH, WE CONTINUED THE FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL DNA (EDNA) SAMPLING ANYWHERE IN WEST AFRICA, DURING OUR SURVEYS OF INTERIOR RIVERS IN GUINEA. WE CONTINUED A PARTNERSHIP FOR MANATEE RESEARCH WITH THE ABU DHABI AQUARIUM, AND A LONG-TERM PHOTO-ID STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL MANATEES AT PT ST GEORGE, CASAMANCE, SENEGAL. THE PI AND COLLABORATORS PUBLISHED THREE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS. AN ADDITIONAL TWO SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO JOURNALS.

  Expenses $75,000

• THE WEST AFRICAN SEA TURTLE PROGRAM LED PROJECTS IN GABON, EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND COTE D'IVOIRE. IN GABON WE CONTINUED TO COORDINATE THE GABON SEA TURTLE PARTNERSHIP, A NETWORK OF PROJECTS TO PROTECT SEA TURTLES AND THEIR HABITAT THROUGH BEACH SURVEILLANCE, RESEARCH, THREAT REDUCTION, CAPACITY-BUILDING AND OUTREACH. IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA WE CONTINUED TO MONITOR SEA TURTLE THREATS AND CONDUCTED A NATIONAL AWARENESS-RAISING CAMPAIGN. IN COTE D'IVOIRE WE CONTINUED TO COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO MONITOR AND PROTECT 50 KM OF NESTING BEACHES AND CARRY OUT COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION INITIATIVES, AS WELL AS IMPLEMENT THE COUNTRY'S FIRST MARINE PROTECTED AREA. WE PUBLISHED 2 PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC STUDIES.

  Expenses $165,000

• THE AFRICAN CETACEANS PROGRAM CONDUCTED CONTINUING PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING (PAM) PROJECTS OFF THE WEST COAST OF MADAGASCAR, OFF THE NAMPULA COAST OF MOZAMBIQUE, AND OFF SENEGAL. THE PAM WORK IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL WAS PART OF A MULTI-PARTNER EFFORT TO MITIGATE SHIPPING NOISE IN THE SOUTHWEST INDIAN OCEAN (SWIO) FUNDED BY THE FRENCH GOVT AGENCY FFEM, AND INVOLVED TWO EXPEDITIONS TO CROSS THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL IN A SAILING VESSEL TO DEPLOY AND RECOVER REMOTE ACOUSTIC RECORDERS. WE ALSO CONDUCTED AN OMURA'S WHALES RESEARCH EXPEDITION OFF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF MADAGASCAR SURVEYING APPROXIMATELY 400 KM OF COAST IN A SAILING VESSEL. THE CETECEANS PROGRAM LEADER CO-SUPERVISED THREE PHD STUDENTS ENROLLED AT CURTIN UNIVERSITY - MAURITIUS CAMPUS, ON THE ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY OF BLUE WHALES, HUMPBACK WHALES AND SPERM WHALES IN THE SWIO. THE LEADER ALSO ATTENDED AND PRESENTED WORK AT THE BIENIAL MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION IN BLED, SLOVENIA.

  Expenses $120,000

• THE AFRICAN CHELONIAN INSTITUTE (ACI) LED SURVEYS TO DOCUMENT SEA TURTLE POACHING AND BYCATCH IN MBODIENE AND JOAL, SENEGAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JOAL-FADIOUTH MARINE PROTECTED AREA. ACI HELD THE FOURTH NATIONAL SEA TURTLE AWARENESS DAYS FOR SENEGAL AT NATIONAL PARK OF LANGUE DE BARBARIE NEAR SAINT-LOUIS OVER FOUR DAYS. THE EVENT INCLUDED AN OFFICIAL CEREMONY, AWARENESS ACTIVITIES, EDUCATIONAL DISPLAYS AND BEACH CLEAN UPS AT THREE SITES. IT WAS ATTENDED BY OVER 1500 PARTICIPANTS. FOUR SEA TURTLE NESTS AT NGAZOBIL WERE MONITORED. A TEMPORARY TURTLE FACILITY WAS MAINTAINED IN NGAZOBIL. ON THE NEW ACI LAND FOR THE PERMANENT FACILITY, A WELL HAS BEEN DUG AND AN ACCESS ROAD WAS CLEARED.

  Expenses $51,800

• THE SENEGAL STRANDING NETWORK CONDUCTED THREE COASTAL STRANDING SURVEYS. WE ALSO RESPONDED TO CARCASSES OUTSIDE OF SURVEYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE DOCUMENTED 60 STRANDED CETACEANS AND 38 STRANDED SEA TURTLES (MOST WERE SAMPLED FOR GENETICS, TAXONOMY AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION). WE PARTNERED WITH COLLEAGUES FROM THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOR CETACEAN TAXONOMY AND GENETICS STUDIES. WE ALSO ANALYZED STRANDING DATA COLLECTED SINCE 2014 AND CONTINUED WRITING TWO MANUSCRIPTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION. OTHER PROGRAMS

  Expenses $47,813

As filed on the 2025 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

2025

Filed

30 August 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

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