Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$2,998,077

Total expenses

$3,163,090

Contributions and grants received

$2,958,871

Grants paid

$55,532

Program service revenue

$22,461

Investment income

$10,213

Other revenue

$6,532

Total assets, end of year

$2,654,853

Total liabilities, end of year

$316,536

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,338,317

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,492,498

Management and general expenses

$519,735

Fundraising expenses

$150,857

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,492,498

Program services were 78.8% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Western Wildway: This year, we launched a four-year study, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to understand the impact of large solar panel fields on pronghorn and other wildlife. Within days of outgoing Arizona Governor Ducey beginning construction of an illegal border wall through black bear, ocelot and jaguar habitat in the San Rafael Valley, we systematically documented the progress of his makeshift, shipping container wall. We are surveying over 150 miles of barbed wire fences within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which serves as an important pathway and winter range for the Paunsaugunt mule deer herd. We are leading a camera monitoring project to collect critical baseline data regarding the status of martens in the Southern San Juan Mountain of northern New Mexico. We are partnering with Texas A&M AgriLife Research to study how human disturbances influence predator populations and their impact on Gunnison sage-grouse conservation. We have developed deep-learning models to identify and easily map prairie dog colonies in New Mexico and Utah.

  Expenses $806,357 · Grants $4,132 · Revenue $5,010

• Eastern Wildway: In Gorges State Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, we have completed two field seasons of monitoring four small culverts that were installed to facilitate road crossings for timber rattlesnakes and eastern box turtles. Since 2015, our motion-sensitive cameras have been used to study local concerns about wolves' impact on game species. Because red wolves continue to suffer from a lack of national awareness, we coordinated with the Associated Press on a major update about the wolf program, a story that was picked up by over 900 news outlets across the country. Future Forests Reimagined, our transboundary initiative to reconnect Old Forests in the Northern Appalachian-Acadian-Wabanaki bioregion brings our indigenous-guided forest planning process to the UNESCO Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere and eight UNESCO Biosphere Regions in eastern Canada. Through workshops and international collaborations, we support collaborators in development of their plans to identify and protect old forests and expand the use of ecological forestry aligning with traditional conservation knowledge systems.

  Expenses $670,569 · Revenue $723

• Pacific Wildway: In August, we completed the first-ever comprehensive database and interactive map of wildlife crossings in California. We are collaborating with Caltrans, Nevada Department of Transportation and Pathways for Wildlife to gather camera images, wildlife-vehicle collision and GPS telemetry data on Highway 395 in Northern California and Nevada. We are partnering with the California Tahoe Conservancy and Pathways for Wildlife to study solutions that will balance wildfire prevention with habitat conservation to best serve local communities and wildlife.

  Expenses $492,166 · Grants $5,000 · Revenue $12,723

• Other Programs: In Mexico, we focus on the sustainability and adequate management of Natural Protected Areas, which face funding challenges due to federal environmental budget cuts. We lead the NOSSA coalition, and together, we identified obstacles to generating revenue from fees for using natural resources within these protected areas. We are promoting healthy habitat management in Northern Mexico's Cocspera watershed to enhance wildlife connectivity along the Sierra Azul El Pinito ecological corridor. In partnership with Pronatura Noreste, we are creating a habitat management plan to reduce the risk to parrot nests from increasing wildfires and encourage community stewardship. On the policy side, Wildlands Network co-hosted the George Washington University Law School's Environmental and Energy Law Program annual Shapiro Symposium. In March, President Biden announced the first-ever administration-wide guidance for all federal agencies to incorporate ecological connectivity and wildlife corridor considerations into their policies and planning. These embraced the recommendations of the federal Connectivity Policy Coalition, which we host, which has been working to provide the Biden administration with expert advice since 2020. In Mexico in 2023, we saw years of focused advocacy pay off as the Mexican Congress passed critical legislation to protect the lands, water and wildlife of Mexico, based on expert recommendations and public support provided by us and our coalition partners.

  Expenses $523,406 · Grants $46,400 · Revenue $4,000

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

• National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

  $23,000

  Support

• Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center

  $5,000

  Support

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

26 April 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

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