Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,728,598

Total expenses

$2,052,013

Contributions and grants received

$1,704,016

Grants paid

$1,326,211

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$24,582

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$2,649,844

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,649,844

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,009,230

Management and general expenses

$42,783

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,009,230

Program services were 97.9% 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 · 2023

• THE CONSERVATION AND SURVIVAL OF ELEPHANT IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA IS A PRIMARY CONCERN OF CONSERVATION FORCE. WE ARE LEADERS IN DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT ACTION PLANS AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF KEY ASPECTS OF THOSE PLANS. THIS INCLUDES SECURING ESSENTIAL LANDSCAPE, CONTROL OF POACHING, STIMULATING TOLERANCE OF LOCAL RURAL PEOPLE THROUGH CBNRM STRATEGIES, AND MUCH MORE. THE FOCUS IS THE SUPPORT AND PERPETUATION OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ELEPHANT CONSERVATION PROGRAMS IN THE WORLD- THE UNDISPUTED STRONGHOLDS OF THE LARGEST REMAINING ELEPHANT POPULATIONS.PROJECTS IN ZIMBABWE, TANZANIA & NAMIBIA; THE CLEAN WATER PROJECT; THE DNA TAGGING PROJECT; THE DOORWAY TO WATERWAYS PROJECTS; JUST TO LIST A FEW.

  Expenses $1,747,399 · Grants $500,247

• CONSERVATION OF WHITE AND BLACK RHINO OF SOUTHERN AFRICA: LIKE ELEPHANT, THE BLACK AND WHITE RHINO OF SOUTHERN AFRICA ARE THE LARGEST REMAINING POPULATIONS. THE POPULATIONS ARE STABLE OR GROWING. THE PROGRAMS ARE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN THE WORLD AND CONSERVATION FORCE DOES ALL THAT IT CAN FOR THE CONSERVATION AND SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES BY PROVIDING LEADERSHIP, FUNDING FOR PLANNING AND FUNDING FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF THOSE RECOVERY ACTION PLANS.

  Expenses $145,462 · Grants $165,908

• CONTROL OF POACHING: LAW ENFORCEMENT, PARTICULARLY THE CONTROL OF POACHING IS AN ELEMENTARY WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT NECESSITY AND A PART OF ALL LION, LEOPARD, ELEPHANT AND RHINO RECOVERY EFFORTS. CONSERVATION FORCE FUNDS ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS ACROSS AFRICA, PARTICULARLY IN TANZANIA AND ZIMBABWE DURING THE 2019 PERIOD IN SPECIES IMPORTANT AREAS OUTSIDE OF FORMAL FULLY PROTECTED NATIONAL PARKS.

  Expenses $116,369 · Grants $660,056

• OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES AND PROJECTS TO ESTABLISH AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE, PROTECTION OF HABITAT AND BIODIVERSITY INTEGRITY.

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

3 February 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202520349349301077

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