Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$716,022

Total expenses

$702,252

Contributions and grants received

$710,279

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$4,227

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$1,516

Total assets, end of year

$457,689

Total liabilities, end of year

$206,969

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$250,720

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$682,697

Management and general expenses

$12,182

Fundraising expenses

$7,373

Program service expenses (Part III)

$682,697

Program services were 97.2% 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 · 2023

• THE AFRICAN MANATEE PROGRAM LEADER SUPERVISED FOUR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND 13 TRAINEES FROM FIVE 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 BEGAN THE FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL DNA (EDNA) SAMPLING ANYWHERE IN WEST AFRICA, DURING OUR SURVEYS OF INTERIOR RIVERS IN GUINEA. FIVE NEW RIVERS FOR AFRICAN MANATEES WERE IDENTIFIED DURING THAT TRIP (JUNE 2023). WE LED EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS IN EIGHT SCHOOLS IN JOAL, SENEGAL THAT REACHED ALMOST 2000 STUDENTS. THE PI AND COLLABORATORS PUBLISHED ONE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPT. AN ADDITIONAL NINE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS AND SIX BOOK CHAPTERS ARE IN PREPARATION.

  Expenses $135,529

• 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. WE CONTINUED ANALYSIS OF THE LONG-TERM NATIONAL DATABASE OF NESTING ACTIVITIES FOR IMMINENT PUBLICATION. 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 IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION INITIATIVES. WE WERE ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN THE CREATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COUNTRY'S FIRST MARINE PROTECTED AREA, INCLUDING ITS DELIMITATION, SURVEILLANCE AND DATA-COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT. WE PUBLISHED 2 PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS ON SATELLITE TELEMETRY OF NESTING LEATHERBACKS IN BIOKO, AND A LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF CAPTURE-MARK-RECAPTURE DATA OF NESTING LEATHERBACKS AND OLIVE RIDLEYS IN GABON.

  Expenses $283,057

• THE AFRICAN CETACEANS PROGRAM LED PROJECTS IN MADAGASCAR AND SENEGAL. IN SENEGAL, WE CONTINUED A STUDY OF ATLANTIC HUMPBACK DOLPHINS WITH PHOTO IDENTIFICATION SURVEYS THROUGHOUT DELTA SALOUM, DEPLOYMENT/RECOVERY/DOWNLOADING OF THREE ACOUSTIC RECORDERS, AND TRAINED A RESEARCHER FROM GABON. ADDITIONALLY, WE CONTINUED A PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING PROGRAM FOR WHALES OFF DAKAR STARTED IN JUNE 2021 WITH TWO RECOVERIES/REDEPLOYMENT OF TWO RECORDING DEVICES THAT RECORDED THROUGHOUT 2023. IN MADAGASCAR, EXISTING ACOUSTIC MONITORING RECORDERS AT THREE SITES ALONG THE WEST COAST INCLUDING NOSY BE, MAHAJANGA AND TOLIARA WERE RECOVERED AND REDEPLOYED. IN ADDITION, IN NOVEMBER 2023 WE DEPLOYED 8 RECORDERS IN AN 50KM LONG LINEAR ARRAY FOR LOCALIZING BLUE WHALES OFF NOSY BE, AS THE FIRST EFFORT FOR THE MULTI-PARTNER QWIO PROJECT. ALSO IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WE CONDUCTED THE FIRST OMURA'S WHALE FIELD SEASON SINCE 2019 (PRE-PANDEMIC), DEPLOYING SATELLITE TRANSMITTER TAGS ON 4 WHALES THAT PROVIDED NEAR HOURLY LOCATIONS FOR UP TO 1 MONTH, AND PILOTED AN EFFORT TO PLACE VIDEO CAMERA TAGS ON OMURA'S THAT WILL CONTINUE IN THE 2024 SEASON. A NEW MALAGASY BSC STUDENT WAS TRAINED DURING THIS FIELD EFFORT, AND WILL USE DATA FOR THE PI AND COLLABORATORS PUBLISHED 1 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION, AND 4 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (IWC SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE).

  Expenses $167,138

• THE AFRICAN CHELONIAN INSTITUTE LED SURVEYS TO DOCUMENT SEA TURTLE POACHING AND BYCATCH IN MBODIENE AND JOAL, SENEGAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JOAL-FADIOUTH MARINE PROTECTED AREA. A PROJECT TO DOCUMENT A RARE FRESHWATER TURTLE SPECIES FINISHED IN SOUTHEASTERN SENEGAL AND INCLUDED INTERVIEWS AND FIELD SURVEYS. ACI HELD THE THRID NATIONAL SEA TURTLE AWARENESS DAYS FOR SENEGAL; A FIVE-DAY EVENT INCLUDING PRESENTATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL DISPLAYS, A SKIT AND BEACH CLEAN UPS WAS PRESENTED IN ST LOUIS, LOMPOUL AND KAYAR, SENEGAL. IT WAS ATTENDED BY 1000 STUDENTS PLUS OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND MPA STAFF. SEA TURTLE NESTS IN NGAZOBIL WERE MONITORED; 14 NESTS WERE DOCUMENTED. A TEMPORARY TURTLE FACILITY WAS MAINTAINED IN NGAZOBIL. NEW LAND FOR THE PERMANENT FACILITY HAD TO BE PURCHASED AFTER THE PREVIOUS LAND WAS LOST WHEN THE OWNERS CHANGED THEIR MINDS ABOUT THE SALE (MONEY WAS RETURNED TO ACI). ACI HELD THREE FUNDRAISING EVENTS IN SENEGAL FOR THE PERMANENT FACILITY. ACI STAFF PUBLISHED TWO SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND MANY MORE POPULAR MAGAZINE ARTICLES.

  Expenses $87,589

• THE SENEGAL STRANDING NETWORK CONDUCTED NINE COASTAL STRANDING SURVEYS, INCLUDING MONTHLY SURVEYS FROM MAY-OCTOBER. WE ALSO RESPONDED TO CARCASSES OUTSIDE OF SURVEYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE DOCUMENTED 186 STRANDED CETACEANS AND 182 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 A MANUSCRIPT FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION.

  Expenses $9,384

As filed on the 2023 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

2023

Filed

5 September 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

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