Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$41,631,441

Total expenses

$36,609,203

Contributions and grants received

$35,400,084

Grants paid

$3,552,046

Program service revenue

$2,101,019

Investment income

$1,618,645

Other revenue

$2,511,693

Total assets, end of year

$44,472,608

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,422,709

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$41,049,899

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$31,065,839

Management and general expenses

$3,512,868

Fundraising expenses

$2,030,496

Program service expenses (Part III)

$31,065,839

Program services were 84.9% 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 · 2024

• Project Network Following is a list of 74 projects under sponsorship with the Organization during all or part of the fiscal year. This includes one new project and four that closed down or left the Organization to incorporate independently, merge with another organization, or work with a new fiscal sponsor. See Statement 1

  Expenses $30,088,022 · Grants $3,552,046 · Revenue $2,101,019

• Earth Island Journal For nearly four decades, Earth Island Journal has been publishing a unique, wide-angle perspective, which strives to make the connections between the environment and other human rights and social justice issues. Over the course of publishing more than 145 issues, the Journal has broken ground on covering critical environmental topics and received a number of media awards for excellence in journalism. In past fiscal year, the Journal published a mix of hard-hitting investigative features and reports from around the world in its print issues, including an in depth-cover feature about the young American evangelicals fighting for climate action from within the church, which is better known for right-leaning politics and climate denialism; an on-the-ground report about poaching in Lebanon, where, despite recent legislation making it illegal to kill migratory birds, somewhere between 1.7 and 3.5 million birds are illegally shot down with military grade weapons each year; a report about Rikers Islands attempt to transition from one of the nations most notorious jail complexes into a place that embodies regeneration and growth; A look at anti-trans and anti climate policies in Florida and how the same ideologies of supremacy and colonialism underpin right-wing attacks on both body sovereignty and the environment. In addition to these features, the Organization also published a wide range of breaking news reports, commentary, essays, book and film reviews, podcasts, and news analysis. The Journals well-established track record of raising awareness about environmental and social justice issues and tackling controversial subjects has earned the Organization the reputation of being a small magazine with a big voice.

  Expenses $454,773

• New Leaders Initiative Earth Islands New Leaders Initiative celebrates and supports young environmental leaders in North America. Each year the Organizations Brower Youth Awards program honors the work of six outstanding young environmentalists, ages 13 to 22, for their leadership and achievements. During the fiscal year, winners addressed the lack of representation of girls of color in nature, advocated for mangrove restoration in coastal areas, mobilized young people around dam removal to help save critically endangered orcas, promoted food sovereignty and mutual aid through community agriculture, organized clean energy campaigns in school districts and communities, and established statewide composting and food recovery programs in schools. In addition to a cash prize and public recognition, the winners received coaching, training, and peer support designed to provide them with the skills to advance their initiatives.

  Expenses $275,406

• Earth Island Advocates Earth Island Advocates uses the law to fight for justice for the planets beautiful and varied ecosystems and inhabitants. With the combined knowledge and expertise of the Organizations grassroots project network and the pro bono resources of law firms, legal clinics, and nonprofit organizations, Earth Island Advocates is achieving tangible results for the environment. During the fiscal year, Advocates filed lawsuits to prevent unlawful logging on federal land, achieved important advances in its corporate greenwashing litigation, and obtained settlements that protect wildlife.

  Expenses $247,638

As filed on the 2024 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. 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

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

• Stand

  $202,500

  General support

• Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development

  $139,000

  General support

• Kansas Rural Center 1758

  $139,000

  General support

• Renewing the Countryside

  $139,000

  General support

• Marbleseed

  $139,000

  General support

• Missouri Rural Crisis Center 1877

  $139,000

  General support

• Indigenous Peoples Movement

  $120,372

  General support

• Trade Justice Education Fund 1693

  $90,000

  General support

• Climate Access

  $81,650

  General support

• GreenFaith 967

  $60,000

  General support

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

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• David Brower Center

  501(c)(3) · Office Rental to other NPOs · CA

  Directly controlled by NA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

9 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202601349349305265

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