Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$67,873

Total expenses

$78,503

Contributions and grants received

$67,510

Grants paid

$76,813

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$363

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$625,093

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$625,093

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$77,187

Management and general expenses

$766

Fundraising expenses

$550

Program service expenses (Part III)

$77,187

Program services were 98.3% 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 Meg and Bert Raynes Wildlife Fund gave out a record number of grants in 2023. It provided 16 grants (up from 13 in 2022) for a total of $78,502. The majority of them were $5,000 or less, with one at $6,000 to continue vital raptor research, and another of $20,000 to the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation Nature Mapping, a citizen science program supported by Raynes Wildlife Fund since its inception.

  Expenses $31,125 · Grants $31,000

• Our small grants provide vital support to graduate students and professional biologists researching ways to understand and steward the wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in NW Wyoming. Grantees studied populations moose genetics in and outside Grand Teton National Park, as well as ongoing projects on flower phenology-the timing of flower blooms in light of climate change, birds including harlequin ducks and sagebrush bird species; and smaller creatures such as boreal toads.

  Expenses $28,656 · Grants $28,531

• Public outreach projects inclued an amphibian exhibit, equipment, such as binoculars to middle-school students to participate in nature observation in a citizen science project on a local butte, and continued support for "Sporting Lead Free" to reduce toxic lead shot used by hunters. We contiue to increase awareness of the Fund. In 2023, we sent out 2-3 e-news to over 500 donors, grantees, and organizations with mutual interests. Our website has been enhanced. Also our annual request through Old Bill's, the community-wide-philanthropic effort coordinated by Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, has become more personalized and effective. As we have more requests each year for our funds, we continue to strive to increase donor awareness and generosity. And to continue the legacy of conservation established by our name sake Meg and Bert Raynes.

  Expenses $17,406 · Grants $17,282

As filed on the 2023 return.

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

• UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

  $20,136

  RESEARCH

• JH WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $20,000

  MAPPING

• TETON RAPTOR CENTER

  $13,000

  RESEARCH

• NO ROCKIES CONSERVATION

  $6,282

  RESEARCH

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

8 February 2024

IRS schema version

2023v4.0

Source object

202440529349300044

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