Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$7,283,635

Total expenses

$7,134,795

Contributions and grants received

$7,274,989

Grants paid

$1,559,570

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$8,646

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$6,453,146

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,491,465

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,961,681

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,602,913

Management and general expenses

$429,813

Fundraising expenses

$102,069

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,602,913

Program services were 92.5% 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 · 2022

• EIA'S FOREST CAMPAIGN PROTECTS THE WORLD'S FORESTS, AND THE PEOPLE, WILDLIFE AND GLOBAL CLIMATE THAT DEPEND ON THEM, BY EXPOSING ILLEGAL TIMBER OPERATIONS AND ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION FOR PRODUCTION OF COMMODITIES THROUGH UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS; EXTENSIVE RESEARCH, DATA ANALYSIS, SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, CAMPAIGNING AND ADVOCACY FOR DOMESTIC LAWS THAT BAN IMPORTS OF PRODUCTS MADE FROM ILLEGALLY CUT TIMBER OR COMMODITIES RESULTING FROM ILLICIT DEFORESTATION; ENGAGING WITH BUSINESSES AND TRADE ASSOCIATIONS TO MAKE SUPPLY CHAINS MORE TRACEABLE AND TRANSPARENT WORLDWIDE TO REINFORCE LEGALITY AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY; ADVOCATING FOR FOREST PROTECTION AND GOVERNANCE SAFEGUARDS IN TRADE POLICIES; AND STRENGTHENING FOREST GOVERNANCE AND COMMUNITY INCLUSION, WHICH IN TURN HELPS COMMUNITIES TO THRIVE AND FORESTS TO REMAIN STANDING. EIA CONDUCTS INVESTIGATIVE FIELD WORK, DESKTOP DETAILED RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS, AND ENGAGES EXTENSIVELY WITH INDIGENOUS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES, ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, SCIENTIFIC AND POLICY EXPERTS TO SUPPORT ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY, POLICY CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL FORA, NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND WITH LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS TO PROTECT FORESTS AND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE. TO COMBAT ILLEGALITIES IN THE EXTRACTIVES SECTOR AND STRENGTHEN THE POSITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO DEFEND THEIR TERRITORIES AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE INVASIONS FOR NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION.

  Expenses $4,951,779 · Grants $1,361,092

• GLOBAL CLIMATE CAMPAIGN: EIA IS LEADING THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT FOR A GLOBAL PHASE-OUT OF HYDROFLUROCARBONS (HFCS)--A CLASS OF POTENT CHLORINATED CHEMICALS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC OZONE HOLES AS WELL AS ONE SIXTH OF ALL GLOBAL WARMING. EIA PROVIDES A WIDE ARRAY OF INFORMATION, THROUGH PRIMARY RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS, TO VARIOUS INDUSTRIAL SECTORS TO FACILITATE IMMEDIATE CONVERSIONS FROM OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES AND HFCS TO LOW-GWP CLIMATE FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVES. THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, INCLUDING ATMOSPHERIC AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY, CUTTING-EDGE REFRIGERATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL, EIA WORKS WITH RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS, SCIENTISTS, GOVERNMENTS, INDUSTRY AND NGOS AS WELL AS THE TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT PANEL (TEAP) THAT WAS ESTABLISHED AS THE TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS ADVISORY BODY TO THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL PARTIES, TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL INFORMATION RELATED TO THE ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED AND EMPLOYED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE USE OF OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES (SUCH AS CFCS AND HALONS), THAT HARM THE OZONE LAYER. EIA ALSO PRESENTS IN VARIOUS U.N. AND INDUSTRY EVENTS ON LATEST TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS TO PROMOTE CLIMATE-FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY THAT USE NON-FLUORINATED NON-SYNTHETIC REFRIGERANTS CURRENTLY WIDELY USED IN REFRIGERANTS AND AIR CONDITIONING.

  Expenses $674,304

• ELEPHANTS, RHINOS AND OTHER SPECIES CAMPAIGN: EIA HAS CONTINUED TO UNDERTAKE DETAILED RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS INTO THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF COMMERCIAL TRADE IN ELEPHANT IVORY AND RHINO HORN AND DOCUMENTING WIDESPREAD ILLEGALITIES OCCURRING IN SUCH TRADE CAUSING INTENSIVE DAMAGE TO ELEPHANT POPULATIONS AS WELL AS RHINOS. BY UNDERTAKING DETAILED RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS COMBINED WITH INVESTIGATIONS, EIA'S EVIDENCE PROVIDES DETAILED INFORMATION TO SUPPORT BANS ON SUCH TRADE IN ORDER TO PROTECT ENDANGERED ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS. EIA RESEARCH WORK PROVIDES DETAILED ANALYSES TO DECISION MAKERS TO SECURE STRONG PROTECTION MEASURES TO PREVENT CONTINUED LARGE-SCALE KILLINGS BOTH OF ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS. EIA'S CAMPAIGN WORK HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT IVORY AND RHINO HORN TRADE RESULT IN THE RAPID AND OFTEN FAR REACHING DEPLETION OF THESE SPECIES. RESEARCH INTO JAPAN'S IVORY TRADE SHOWS THERE IS NO EFFECTIVE MEASURES OR LAWS TO COUNTER ILLEGAL IVORY TRADE AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN REQUIRES NO PROOF OF LEGALITY OF ORIGIN OF IVORY TUSKS BEING LEGALIZED ONTO THE JAPANESE MARKET. THIS ALOS INCLUDES INCREASED DIRECT PROTECTION FOR ORANGUTANS.

  Expenses $608,883 · Grants $110,247

• CETACEANS CAMPAIGN: EIA IS UNDERTAKING EXTENSIVE RESEARCH INTO THE NUMEROUS THREATS TO GREAT WHALES AS WELL AS SMALL WHALES, SUCH AS BELUGAS AND NARWHALS. OUR CAMPAIGN WORK HAS DETAILED THE IMPACTS OF SMALL CETACEANS WORLDWIDE. THESE SMALLER SPECIES ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL BAN ON COMMERCIAL WHALING AND ARE HUNTED FOR FOOD, FOR USE AS SHARK BAIT OR KILLED IN NETS OF FISHING OPERATIONS. EIA RESEARCH HAS ALSO DOCUMENTED OVERHUNTING OF UNPROTECTED SPECIES OF DOLPHINS AND PORPOISE. CURRENTLY WE ARE SEEKING TO INCREASE PROTECTION FOR THE WORLD'S BELUGA AND NARWHALS THROUGH RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE THREATS TO THE 150,000 BELUGAS LIVING IN THE WILD IN NORTHERN WATERS. RESEARCH ALSO CONFIRMS THEY ARE IMPERILED BY THE INCREASINGLY INDUSTRIAL HUMAN PRESENCE IN THE ARCTIC AND NEAR ARCTIC. EIA IS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD WITH CONTINUING RESEARCH INTO THE THREATS FACING BELUGAS AND A CAMPAIGN DEDICATED TO GAINING LASTING PROTECTIONS FOR ALL 29 POPULATIONS OF BELUGA WHALES ACROSS THEIR GLOBAL RANGE. THROUGH COLLABORATION, RESEARCH, AND ADVOCACY, WE ARE WORKING TO ENSURE THAT THE ARCTIC MARINE ENVIRONMENT IS PROTECTED FROM THE IMPACTS OF HUMAN INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITS RICH WILDLIFE AND WITH RESPECT FOR THE NEEDS, TRADITIONS AND CULTURES OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES. OUR CAMPAIGN WORK OCCURS AT BOTH THE POPULATION AND ECOSYSTEM LEVELS AND, THUS, WE ARE PURSUING MEASURES THAT WILL BENEFIT THE ARCTIC AS A WHOLE AS WELL AS TARGETED MEASURES TO PROTECT SPECIFIC POPULATIONS OF BELUGA WHALES.

  Expenses $367,947 · Grants $88,231

As filed on the 2022 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

• CODE4NATURE

  $331,846

  TIMBER TRACEABILITY SYSTEMS

• CIEL

  $80,000

  ACHIEVE COST-EFFECTIVE REDUCTIONS IN EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION

• ALASKA WILDLIFE ALLIANCE

  $26,000

  SCOPING AND RESEARCH TO SUPPORT COOK INLET BELUGA RECOVERY

• CENTER FOR AMAZON COMMUNITY CENTER

  $17,000

  SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE HARVEST AND MARKETING OF VALUE-ADDED NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS (NTPFS) WITH NATIVE COMMUNITIES IN THE NORTHERN PERUVIAN AMAZON.

• INTERNATIONAL ANTI-POACHING FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  ELEPHANT PROTECTION

• WORLD FOREST ID ASSOCIATION

  $8,600

  ACHIEVE COST-EFFECTIVE REDUCTIONS IN EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202303179349302840

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