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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by XERCES SOCIETY INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$11,813,598
Total expenses
$11,205,274
Contributions and grants received
$10,577,848
Grants paid
$102,172
Program service revenue
$696,935
Investment income
$466,402
Other revenue
$72,413
Total assets, end of year
$16,002,145
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,765,786
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$14,236,359
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$9,044,006
Management and general expenses
$941,981
Fundraising expenses
$1,219,287
Program service expenses (Part III)
$9,044,006

Program services were 80.7% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $4,065,248

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $6,512,600

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $392,495

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE FEES

    total $696,935 · related or exempt $696,935

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $466,402 · excluded $466,402

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $72,413 · related or exempt $72,413

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $392,495

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $392,495

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $81,172 · program services $81,172

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $21,000 · program services $21,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $671,630 · program services $357,678 · management and general $267,468 · fundraising $46,484

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $6,286,920 · program services $4,901,162 · management and general $901,333 · fundraising $484,425

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $421,501 · program services $339,282 · management and general $50,513 · fundraising $31,706

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $801,288 · program services $631,227 · management and general $107,523 · fundraising $62,538

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $578,092 · program services $438,117 · management and general $94,689 · fundraising $45,286

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $8,332 · program services $5,449 · management and general $2,883

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $40,690 · management and general $40,690

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $370,442 · program services $154,531 · management and general $80,661 · fundraising $135,250

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $260,710 · program services $28,104 · management and general $106,687 · fundraising $125,919

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $153,216 · program services $31,420 · management and general $110,423 · fundraising $11,373

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $96,460 · management and general $96,460

  • 17 · Travel

    total $341,979 · program services $332,530 · management and general $4,842 · fundraising $4,607

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $31,935 · program services $27,897 · management and general $4,038

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $17,567 · program services $15,546 · management and general $2,021

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $26,143 · management and general $26,143

  • 24a · Other expenses: PRINTING & FIELD SUPPLI

    total $883,301 · program services $741,143 · management and general $779 · fundraising $141,379

  • 24b · Other expenses: DUES, FEES, AND MAILING

    total $86,927 · program services $61,477 · management and general $12,545 · fundraising $12,905

  • 24c · Other expenses: EQUIPMENT AND REPAIRS

    total $20,864 · management and general $20,864

  • 24d · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

    total $5,105 · program services $5,105

  • 24e · All other expenses

    program services $871,166 · management and general -$988,581 · fundraising $117,415

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $724,833 · end of year $583,832

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $7,804,928 · end of year $3,771,172

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,003,629 · end of year $2,667,276

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $298,574 · end of year $120,167

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $126,120 · end of year $174,387

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $73,465 · end of year $117,499

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

    $137,994

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

    $73,778

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $63,403 · end of year $64,216

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $4,116,521 · end of year $8,401,764

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $160,264 · end of year $101,832

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $868,703 · end of year $951,028

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $778,414 · end of year $712,926

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $160,264 · end of year $101,832

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $11,898,071 · end of year $12,559,724

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,666,285 · end of year $1,676,635

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

XERCES SOCIETY IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT PROTECTS WILDLIFE THROUGH THE CONSERVATION OF INVERTEBRATES AND THEIR HABITAT. THE SOCIETY IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF INVERTEBRATE PROTECTION WORLDWIDE, HARNESSING THE KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENTISTS AND THE ENTHUSIASM OF CITIZENS TO IMPLEMENT CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROTECT THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH THE CONSERVATION OF INVERTEBRATES AND THEIR HABITATS.

  • POLLINATOR CONSERVATION: XERCES' POLLINATOR CONSERVATION PROGRAM WORKS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES TO EDUCATE FARMERS, LAND MANAGERS, AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF POLLINATORS AND OTHER BENEFICIAL INSECTS, AND TO ESTABLISH HABITAT PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT AS KEYS TO THEIR CONSERVATION. AS A LEADING VOICE IN POLLINATOR CONSERVATION, XERCES PROMOTES PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS THAT ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF POLLINATOR DECLINES: HABITAT LOSS, PESTICIDE USE, UNSUSTAINABLE FARMING PRACTICES, DISEASE, AND CLIMATE CHANGE. IT DIRECTLY REACHES AGRICULTURAL PROFESSIONALS AND FARMERS AS WELL AS OTHER LAND MANAGERS THROUGH TRAININGS, WORKSHOPS, AND OTHER OUTREACH EVENTS.SEE SCHEDULE O FOR CONTINUATION. IN ADDITION, XERCES MANAGES THE FIRST THIRD-PARTY CERTIFIED POLLINATOR CONSERVATION PROGRAM TO HELP FARMERS PROTECT AND RESTORE HABITAT FOR POLLINATORS. AS A RESULT OF XERCES' WORK, NATIVE POLLINATORS ARE NOW A KEY PRIORITY FOR AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, AND OVER TWO MILLION ACRES OF HABITAT IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THESE VITAL INSECTS ON FARMS.

    Expenses $3,866,124 · Revenue $447,261

  • ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION: TO CONSERVE AND RESTORE THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE ON EARTH, XERCES' ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION PROGRAM ENGAGES IN EDUCATION, RESEARCH, COMMUNITY SCIENCE, CONSERVATION PLANNING, AND ADVOCACY TO PROTECT AT-RISK SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS. THE PROGRAM COLLABORATES WITH SCIENTISTS AND LAND MANAGERS TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF INVERTEBRATES AND TO GAIN PROTECTION FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE SPECIES BEFORE THEY DECLINE TO A LEVEL AT WHICH RECOVERY IS IMPOSSIBLE. IT ALSO WORKS WITH FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AGENCIES TO PROMOTE RESILIENT RESTORATION AND BEST PRACTICES FOR HABITAT MANAGEMENT. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR CONTINUATION.ITS CURRENT WORK INCLUDES EFFORTS TO PROTECT BUMBLEBEES, MONARCHS AND OTHER BUTTERFLIES, FRESHWATER MUSSELS, FIREFLIES, AND OTHER INVERTEBRATES. THROUGH COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROJECTS, WHICH INCLUDE BUMBLE BEE WATCH, THE WESTERN MONARCH COUNTS, THE WESTERN MONARCH MILKWEED MAPPER, AND THE FIREFLY ATLAS, XERCES ENGAGES TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO GATHER DATA TO INFORM CONSERVATION EFFORTS.

    Expenses $3,193,609 · Grants $78,172 · Revenue $221,928

  • OTHER CONSERVATION: XERCES UNDERTAKES A VARIETY OF OTHER CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES TO RAISE AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION OF THE VALUABLE ROLE OF INVERTEBRATES, AND THEIR ROLE IN PROTECTING THE NATURAL WORLD. THESE INCLUDE THE PUBLICATION OF ITS MAGAZINE WINGS: ESSAYS ON INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION, WHICH FEATURES THE WORK OF RENOWNED WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHERS, SCIENTISTS, AND CONSERVATIONISTS. XERCES ALSO PROVIDES HUNDREDS OF PUBLICATIONS FOR FREE DOWNLOAD THROUGH ITS WEBSITE, INCLUDING GUIDELINES TO HELP FARMERS AND GARDENERS CONSERVE POLLINATORS, GUIDES TO IDENTIFYING ENDANGERED BUMBLE BEES, OTHER BENEFICIAL INSECTS AND SOIL INVERTEBRATES AND MANY MORE. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR CONTINUATION.ANOTHER ASPECT OF THIS PROGRAM IS THE JOAN M. DEWIND AWARD, WHICH IS OPEN TO GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. EACH YEAR, CHOSEN APPLICANTS RECEIVE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM XERCES FOR LEPIDOPTERA RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION PROJECTS.

    Expenses $866,059 · Grants $21,000 · Revenue $36,435

  • PESTICIDE REDUCTION: XERCES' PESTICIDE REDUCTION PROGRAM REDUCES RELIANCE ON PESTICIDES BY SUPPORTING THE DIVERSE NATURAL SYSTEMS THAT REDUCE PEST PROBLEMS. IT PROVIDES SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES FOR FARMERS, RANGELAND MANAGERS, BACKYARD GARDENERS, NURSERY MANAGERS, URBAN FORESTERS AND PARK MANAGERS, FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL AGENCY STAFF, AND POLICY MAKERS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT PESTICIDE USE AND REGULATION. BY PROVIDING ON-THE-GROUND TECHNICAL SUPPORT, XERCES INCREASES THE ADOPTION OF ECOLOGICALLY SOUND PEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES EVERYWHERE. XERCES PESTICIDE REDUCTION PROGRAMS HAVE ELIMINATED AND LOWERED PESTICIDE USE ACROSS MILLIONS OF ACRES OF RANGELAND, FARMLAND AND TOWNS AND CITIES.

    Expenses $586,455 · Grants $3,000

  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM PROVIDES RESOURCES ON INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION TO ALL AGE GROUPS. IT PROVIDES EXPERTISE ON HABITAT FOR POLLINATORS AND OTHER INVERTEBRATES TO COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL GARDENS, CITIES, AND COLLEGE CAMPUSES, AND IT OFFERS CONSERVATION WORKSHOPS FOR URBAN AND SUBURBAN AUDIENCES, REACHING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR. OUR BEE CITY USA NETWORK WORKS WITH TOWNS, CITIES AND COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES TO PROTECT AND RESTORE POLLINATOR HABITAT AND TO REACH BROADLY INTO THESE COMMUNITIES TO PROMOTE POLLINATORS. BEE CITY USA AFFILIATES HAVE RESTORED HABITAT, MINIMIZED PESTICIDE USE AND REACHED MORE THAN 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE WITH POLLINATOR CONSERVATION MESSAGING. BY ENGAGING VOLUNTEERS, OVER 100 XERCES AMBASSADORS, AND YOUTH THROUGH X KIDS, XERCES EDUCATES AND INSPIRES INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES TO TAKE ACTION TO CONSERVE INVERTEBRATES.

    Expenses $531,759 · Revenue $63,724

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • BETH ROBERTSON-MARTIN

    BOARD PRESIDENT (THRU SEP. '24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CASEY SCLAR PHD

    BOARD VP & ACTING PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JAY WITHGOTT

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LINDA CRAIG

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BETSY LOPEZ-WAGNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • FLORA LU PHD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SACHA SPECTOR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RACHAEL WINFREE PHD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SCOTT HOFFMAN BLACK

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $322,045
    From this org
    $245,031
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $77,014
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $244,781
    Bonus
    $250
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $42,241
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,773
    Filer's total
    $322,045

  • KARL SOUZA

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPS.

    Total calculated
    $182,547
    From this org
    $130,186
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $52,361
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $128,436
    Bonus
    $1,750
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,462
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,899
    Filer's total
    $182,547

  • DAVID VAUGHAN

    POLLINATOR & AGR. BIODIVERSITY DIR.

    Total calculated
    $155,621
    From this org
    $155,621
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,839
    Bonus
    $1,782
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $155,621

  • SARINA JEPSEN

    ENDANGERED SPECIES PROGRAM DIR.

    Total calculated
    $162,344
    From this org
    $133,760
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,584
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $132,010
    Bonus
    $1,750
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,050
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,534
    Filer's total
    $162,344

  • AIMEE B CODE

    PESTICIDE PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $139,821
    From this org
    $116,338
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,483
    Hours/week
    50

  • MATTHEW D SHEPHERD

    OUTREACH & EDUCATION DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $109,965
    From this org
    $101,476
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,489
    Hours/week
    50

  • SUZANNE GRANAHAN

    MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $108,628
    From this org
    $100,243
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,385
    Hours/week
    50

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 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

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
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 7
DURING THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2024, THE XERCES SOCIETY AWARDED DISCRETIONARY BONUSES TO ALL EMPLOYEES.

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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
2 July 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202531839349300048

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