Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,504,583
- Total expenses
- $3,012,338
- Contributions and grants received
- $3,444,039
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $45,855
- Other revenue
- $14,689
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,446,094
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $496,591
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,949,503
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,344,530
- Management and general expenses
- $355,029
- Fundraising expenses
- $312,779
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,344,530
Program services were 77.8% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$3,444,039
-
1g · Noncash contributions included above
$1,353,303
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3 · Investment income
total $45,855 · related or exempt $45,855
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11a · Other revenue: OTHER REVENUE
total $14,689 · excluded $14,689
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$14,689
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $558,395 · program services $445,983 · management and general $37,681 · fundraising $74,731
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $892,329 · program services $712,691 · management and general $60,216 · fundraising $119,422
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $26,647 · program services $21,283 · management and general $1,798 · fundraising $3,566
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $144,795 · program services $115,645 · management and general $9,772 · fundraising $19,378
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $116,491 · program services $93,040 · management and general $7,861 · fundraising $15,590
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $0
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $0
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0
-
17 · Travel
total $0
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $0
-
24a · Other expenses: OTHER CONTRACTORS VIA EOR
total $477,006 · program services $380,978 · management and general $32,189 · fundraising $63,839
-
24b · Other expenses: COMPUTE/DATA AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
total $389,167 · program services $349,240 · management and general $37,341 · fundraising $2,586
-
24c · Other expenses: CONTRACT SERVICES
total $271,708 · program services $118,722 · management and general $148,354 · fundraising $4,632
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24d · Other expenses: TRAVEL AND MEETINGS
total $79,667 · program services $75,972 · management and general $1,582 · fundraising $2,113
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24e · All other expenses
total $56,133 · program services $30,976 · management and general $18,235 · fundraising $6,922
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $1,418,689 · end of year $2,365,094
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $65,000 · end of year $81,000
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $156,957 · end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $26,431 · end of year $41,863
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $156,957 · end of year $454,728
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,365,590 · end of year $1,899,977
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $91,668 · end of year $49,526
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
The Earth Species Project (ESP) is a non-profit organization focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to advance our understanding of animal communication, and ultimately to decode non-human languages. We believe AI has the potential to transform the way we perceive the world around us, expanding the ability of human beings to learn from other species.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Earth Species Project (ESP) is a non-profit organization focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to advance our understanding of animal communication, and ultimately to decode non-human languages. We believe AI has the potential to transform the way we perceive the world around us, expanding the ability of human beings to learn from other species. ESPs team of AI research scientists works in close partnership with over 40 leading biologists, ethologists and research labs from around the world to use machine learning to advance the study of communication in other species, while also supporting conservation efforts.Our technical roadmap describes how ESPs research projects fit together and contribute to our ultimate goal of decoding animal communication and deepening our understanding of other species. The roadmap builds on the recent advances in the fields of machine learning, including the rise of foundation models trained on unlabeled data at scale, which have transformed th
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ESP has significantly expanded the scope of our operations and impact over the past year including: Expanding our team from 9 to 15 people; Publishing our technical roadmap in a co-authored perspectives piece in Science magazine alongside several of our partners; Developing new tools to support processing of bioacoustic data, including Voxaboxen and bio denoising tools; Continuing to iterate on our previously published foundation models and benchmarks; Continuing to work with a wide range of research scientists and institutions on data sharing and research projects. Supporting the efforts of the wider research community by acting as science leads for a small grant program on AI and animal communication administered by Experiment.com; Significantly raising awareness of the topic of AI and animal communication through our website, newsletters, social media, events and in-depth international feature coverage including articles in the Financial Times, Wired, Scientific American and Geekwire.
Expenses $2,344,530
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Andrea Austin
Head of Operations
- Total calculated
- $211,509
- From this org
- $180,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $31,509
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $180,000
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $8,968
- Nontaxable benefits
- $22,541
- Filer's total
- $211,509
-
Katherine ZacarianKATHERINE ZACARIAN
CEO
- Total calculated
- $196,372
- From this org
- $180,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,372
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $180,000
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $5,400
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,972
- Filer's total
- $196,372
-
Benjamin Hoffman
Senior AI Research
- Total calculated
- $179,276
- From this org
- $146,250
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $33,026
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $146,250
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $7,313
- Nontaxable benefits
- $25,713
- Filer's total
- $179,276
-
Madeline Cusimano
Senior AI Research
- Total calculated
- $170,151
- From this org
- $146,250
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,901
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $146,250
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,388
- Nontaxable benefits
- $19,513
- Filer's total
- $170,151
-
Jen-Yu Liu
Senior AI Research
- Total calculated
- $164,312
- From this org
- $146,250
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,062
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $146,250
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $7,313
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,749
- Filer's total
- $164,312
-
Masato Hagiwara
Senior AI Research
- Total calculated
- $151,910
- From this org
- $127,262
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $24,648
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $127,262
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $24,648
- Filer's total
- $151,910
-
Sara Keen
Senior Research Sc
- Total calculated
- $148,230
- From this org
- $129,167
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $19,063
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Aza RaskinAZA RASKIN
President
- Total calculated
- $144,514
- From this org
- $135,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,514
- Hours/week
- 16
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Michael SelvitelleMICHAEL SELVITELLE
Senior Advisor
- Total calculated
- $6,000
- From this org
- $6,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
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Sean WhiteSEAN WHITE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Wendy HanamuraWENDY HANAMURA
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Brewster KahleBREWSTER KAHLE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Merlin Van LawickMERLIN VAN LAWICK
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Kay ButterfieldKAY BUTTERFIELD
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
None.
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
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
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
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 9 August 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.1
- Source object
- 202432269349301428
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