ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C300

Classification

2800

Street

1730 M STREET NW SUITE 7

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

• Research and Policy Division:Provided research, education, training, and technical assistance in environmental law and policy to all sectors in the U.S. and numerous foreign countries. Research programs in 2023 covered the breadth of the field of environmental law and policy, from assessing state protections of nonfederal waters, to promoting good governance to support sustainable management of small-scale fisheries, to operating the Local Government Environmental Assistance Network and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement. Other initiatives identified best practices for coastal management programs, provided model ordinances and other tools for reducing food waste, supported development of a protected area proposal for sperm whales, provided evidence-based judicial education on climate science and the law, and researched and analyzed the legal authorities to address plastic pollution, among other things. Our ongoing programs also continued to provide guidance, education, and recognition to environmental professionals nationwide such as through the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review; training for states, territories, and tribes on the Total Maximum Daily Load and other Clean Water Act programs; our Indoor Air Quality program; our annual National Wetlands Awards program; and others. In addition, among its internationally focused initiatives, ELI analyzed customary water tenure in sub-Saharan Africa; supported the Women in Water Diplomacy Network; and continues to lead in the field of environmental peacebuilding, which integrates natural resource management into conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict. For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report, which can be found at www.eli.org.

  Expenses $4,650,000

• Associates & Education Division: Led 75 events, including conferences, webinars, Breaking News webinars, policy forums, networking receptions, topical conference calls, Eastern and Western Boot Camps on Environmental Law, Summer School seminars, annual Supreme Court preview and review, public seminars and more, for 22,116 environmental professionals (virtually and in person). Topics of discussion ranged, including agriculture, carbon capture, utilization, and storage, careers in environmental law, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, climate change, climate disclosures, compliance and enforcement, decarbonization, the Endangered Species Act, energy law, environmental criminal enforcement, environmental justice, ESG, federal environmental updates, international environmental law, land use law, the National Environmental Policy Act, PFAS, products regulation, Supreme Court cases, sustainable development, TSCA, and more. For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report which can be found at www.eli.org.

  Expenses $914,907 · Revenue $551,856

• Publications Division:Provided timely, accurate, and practical information to environmental professionals through two nationally recognized publications, the Environmental Law Reporter and The Environmental Forum. The Environmental Law Reporter draws premier authors on current legal events, and the Environmental Forum continues to provide award-winning coverage of the environmental profession and environmental policy. In addition, ELI Press advanced the field by publishing five books: TOXIC INTENT: ENVIRONMENTAL HARM, CORPORATE CRIME, AND THE CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES; GOVERNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY; PRINCIPAL TRENDS ON BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW; REMARKABLE CITIES AND THE SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION: 41 WAYS TO REGENERATE THE LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM; and PFAS DESKBOOK.For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report, which can be found at www.eli.org.

  Expenses $649,948 · Revenue $185,241

• Other programs

  Expenses $688,750 · Revenue $735,901

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,767,738

  Expenses

  $8,568,504

  Contributions

  $4,943,997

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,574,690

  Expenses

  $7,494,936

  Contributions

  $6,859,111

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,844,953

  Expenses

  $6,794,972

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,016,596

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,530,655

  Expenses

  $6,332,792

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,167,217

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,889,963

  Expenses

  $6,328,289

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,621,540

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,321,579

  Expenses

  $5,936,661

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,825,989

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,013,919

  Expenses

  $5,604,514

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,121,036

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,090,630

  Expenses

  $4,657,145

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,993,882

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• NEW VENTURE FUND

  $1,250,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE

• CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

  $987,763

  2022 · PROJECT SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $221,750

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $195,000

  2023 · FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.

• SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC

  $125,848

  2022 · LIVELIHOODS ACTIVITY

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $121,075

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• JEREMY AND HANNELORE GRANTHAM ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST

  $120,000

  2024 · GRANTS TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $88,500

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC

  $74,133

  2023 · CHILD POVERTY ACTIVITY

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $63,750

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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