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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by ECO ACTIVISTS FOR GOVERNANCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,156,407
Total expenses
$1,541,299
Contributions and grants received
$2,156,407
Grants paid
$1,533,729
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$658,425
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$658,425
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,533,729
Management and general expenses
$7,570
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,533,729

Program services were 99.5% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $0

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,156,407

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $1,533,729 · program services $1,533,729

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bank fees for wire transfers

    total $7,340 · program services $0 · management and general $7,340 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: PO Box Rental Fee

    total $230 · program services $0 · management and general $230 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $43,317 · end of year $658,425

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $43,317 · end of year $658,425

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

EAGLE U.S. is organized for the promotion of environmental conservation and the rule of law by supporting projects geared towards developing civic activism and collaborating with governments and civil society to improve the application of national and international environmental legislation with the aim of generating a strong deterrent against the illegal trades in wildlife, timber and other environment-related criminal activities, including corruption.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EAGLE-U.S. is organized for the promotion of environmental conservation and the rule of law by supporting projects geared towards developing civic activism and collaborating with governments and civil society to improve the application of national and international environmental legislation with the aim of generating a strong deterrent against the illegal trades in wildlife, timber and other environment-related criminal activities, including corruption.

  • In 2023, EAGLE US awarded its largest grant to EAGLE's Central Coordination Unit (CCU) located in Kenya. The CCU is responsible for assisting EAGLE's partners in Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Togo, Cameroon, Gabon, the Congo, Uganda and Guinea. The CCU members provided dedicated and continuous support and assistance to each of the other EAGLE entities that receive grants to advance conservation in their respective countries. For information on the work in these countries please see our 2023 Annual Report: https://www.eagle-enforcement.org/data/files/eagle-network-annual-report-2023.pdf.

    Expenses $282,747 · Grants $282,747

  • In 2023, EAGLE US continued its support to EAGLE's partner in Senegal, known as EAGLE Senegal. The grant funding resulted in the following accomplishments: presenting various modules on combatting wildlife crime during 3 training sessions at the Niokoloko Koba National Park for 29 park officials in May, which focused on wildlife crime, the wildlife law, techniques in identifying and concealing wildlife contraband, writing of offence statements and the rights of the defense; participating by the Coordinator and the Head of the Legal Department in training for Heads of Airport Anti Trafficking Units from Senegal, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Togo at which they presented various modules on combating wildlife crime during the training sessions; and a presentation by the Coordinator on corruption and wildlife crime during the 34th Interpol Wildlife Crime Working Group Meeting in December, in Lyon, which was attended by 165 people of 56 nationalities, including 145 government representatives and 20 NGOs including EAGLE. For more information on our accomplishments in Senegal please see our 2023 Annual Report: https://www.eagle-enforcement.org/data/files/eagle-network-annual-report-2023.pdf.

    Expenses $268,600 · Grants $268,600

  • In 2023, EAGLE assisted wildlife conservation efforts in the Cameroon through its partner, the Last Great Ape. Grant funds resulted in the following accomplishments: LAGA assisted at arresting 13 traffickers resulting in 13 court cases; the seizing of 271 kg of pangolins scales from all three species in the country, the conviction of 20 traffickers who received all or at least one of the following; prison sentences, fines and damages; significant national media coverage including nearly 200 radio and written articles; participation by the Deputy Director at a pangolin conservation planning workshop, that brought together stakeholders in pangolin conservation in Ghana and focused on producing a West African regional action plan for pangolin conservation to be validated and adopted by the range states and other pangolin conservation stakeholders; participation by the Deputy Director on a panel on the role of law enforcement in pangolin conservation; a meeting with 3 officials from the US Departments of Justice and Agriculture to discuss wildlife law enforcement and illegal logging in the country. For more information on our program activities in Cameroon please see our 2023 Annual Report: https://www.eagle-enforcement.org/data/files/eagle-network-annual-report-2023.pdf.

    Expenses $241,000 · Grants $241,000

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $741,382 · Grants $741,382

As filed on the 2023 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jean Flemma

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ofir Drori

    President, Secretary and Board of Directors Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Paul Elkan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Caroline Kennedy

    Treasurer, Administrator

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
15 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202431369349313278

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