AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D05

Classification

1280

Street

495 SOUTH ROAD

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Mission and programs · 2025

• THE AFRICAN MANATEE PROGRAM LEADER SUPERVISED SIX GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM THREE COUNTRIES AND CONDUCTED FIELDWORK PROGRAMS IN SENEGAL AND GUINEA. AFRICAN MANATEE GENETICS, FEEDING ECOLOGY, AND AGE DETERMINATION STUDIES CONTINUED WITH COLLABORATORS FROM SIX AFRICAN COUNTRIES. AS PART OF GENETICS RESEARCH, WE CONTINUED THE FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL DNA (EDNA) SAMPLING ANYWHERE IN WEST AFRICA, DURING OUR SURVEYS OF INTERIOR RIVERS IN GUINEA. WE CONTINUED A PARTNERSHIP FOR MANATEE RESEARCH WITH THE ABU DHABI AQUARIUM, AND A LONG-TERM PHOTO-ID STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL MANATEES AT PT ST GEORGE, CASAMANCE, SENEGAL. THE PI AND COLLABORATORS PUBLISHED THREE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS. AN ADDITIONAL TWO SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO JOURNALS.

  Expenses $75,000

• THE WEST AFRICAN SEA TURTLE PROGRAM LED PROJECTS IN GABON, EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND COTE D'IVOIRE. IN GABON WE CONTINUED TO COORDINATE THE GABON SEA TURTLE PARTNERSHIP, A NETWORK OF PROJECTS TO PROTECT SEA TURTLES AND THEIR HABITAT THROUGH BEACH SURVEILLANCE, RESEARCH, THREAT REDUCTION, CAPACITY-BUILDING AND OUTREACH. IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA WE CONTINUED TO MONITOR SEA TURTLE THREATS AND CONDUCTED A NATIONAL AWARENESS-RAISING CAMPAIGN. IN COTE D'IVOIRE WE CONTINUED TO COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO MONITOR AND PROTECT 50 KM OF NESTING BEACHES AND CARRY OUT COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION INITIATIVES, AS WELL AS IMPLEMENT THE COUNTRY'S FIRST MARINE PROTECTED AREA. WE PUBLISHED 2 PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC STUDIES.

  Expenses $165,000

• THE AFRICAN CETACEANS PROGRAM CONDUCTED CONTINUING PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING (PAM) PROJECTS OFF THE WEST COAST OF MADAGASCAR, OFF THE NAMPULA COAST OF MOZAMBIQUE, AND OFF SENEGAL. THE PAM WORK IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL WAS PART OF A MULTI-PARTNER EFFORT TO MITIGATE SHIPPING NOISE IN THE SOUTHWEST INDIAN OCEAN (SWIO) FUNDED BY THE FRENCH GOVT AGENCY FFEM, AND INVOLVED TWO EXPEDITIONS TO CROSS THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL IN A SAILING VESSEL TO DEPLOY AND RECOVER REMOTE ACOUSTIC RECORDERS. WE ALSO CONDUCTED AN OMURA'S WHALES RESEARCH EXPEDITION OFF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF MADAGASCAR SURVEYING APPROXIMATELY 400 KM OF COAST IN A SAILING VESSEL. THE CETECEANS PROGRAM LEADER CO-SUPERVISED THREE PHD STUDENTS ENROLLED AT CURTIN UNIVERSITY - MAURITIUS CAMPUS, ON THE ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY OF BLUE WHALES, HUMPBACK WHALES AND SPERM WHALES IN THE SWIO. THE LEADER ALSO ATTENDED AND PRESENTED WORK AT THE BIENIAL MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION IN BLED, SLOVENIA.

  Expenses $120,000

• THE AFRICAN CHELONIAN INSTITUTE (ACI) LED SURVEYS TO DOCUMENT SEA TURTLE POACHING AND BYCATCH IN MBODIENE AND JOAL, SENEGAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JOAL-FADIOUTH MARINE PROTECTED AREA. ACI HELD THE FOURTH NATIONAL SEA TURTLE AWARENESS DAYS FOR SENEGAL AT NATIONAL PARK OF LANGUE DE BARBARIE NEAR SAINT-LOUIS OVER FOUR DAYS. THE EVENT INCLUDED AN OFFICIAL CEREMONY, AWARENESS ACTIVITIES, EDUCATIONAL DISPLAYS AND BEACH CLEAN UPS AT THREE SITES. IT WAS ATTENDED BY OVER 1500 PARTICIPANTS. FOUR SEA TURTLE NESTS AT NGAZOBIL WERE MONITORED. A TEMPORARY TURTLE FACILITY WAS MAINTAINED IN NGAZOBIL. ON THE NEW ACI LAND FOR THE PERMANENT FACILITY, A WELL HAS BEEN DUG AND AN ACCESS ROAD WAS CLEARED.

  Expenses $51,800

• THE SENEGAL STRANDING NETWORK CONDUCTED THREE COASTAL STRANDING SURVEYS. WE ALSO RESPONDED TO CARCASSES OUTSIDE OF SURVEYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE DOCUMENTED 60 STRANDED CETACEANS AND 38 STRANDED SEA TURTLES (MOST WERE SAMPLED FOR GENETICS, TAXONOMY AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION). WE PARTNERED WITH COLLEAGUES FROM THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOR CETACEAN TAXONOMY AND GENETICS STUDIES. WE ALSO ANALYZED STRANDING DATA COLLECTED SINCE 2014 AND CONTINUED WRITING TWO MANUSCRIPTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION. OTHER PROGRAMS

  Expenses $47,813

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $534,989

  Expenses

  $515,766

  Contributions

  $523,076

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $716,022

  Expenses

  $702,252

  Contributions

  $710,279

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $834,495

  Expenses

  $680,145

  Contributions

  $800,496

  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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $305,271

  Expenses

  $281,492

  Assets (EOY)

  $111,345

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $133,549

  Expenses

  $137,147

  Assets (EOY)

  $77,488

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $100,681

  Expenses

  $153,203

  Assets (EOY)

  $81,085

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $183,838

  Expenses

  $107,298

  Assets (EOY)

  $133,607

• 2017 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $124,398

  Expenses

  $116,413

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,933

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $179,850

  Expenses

  $155,622

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,523

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period

1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015

Principal officer

Show names as filed Lucy Keith DiagneLUCY KEITH DIAGNE

Mailing address

495 SOUTH ROADCHILMARK MA 02535

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

• WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY

  $117,692

  2023 · CONSERVATION

• NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

  $61,180

  2022 · Research Grant

• COASTAL WILDLIFE CLUB INC

  $10,250

  2025 · Conservation Fund Outreach

• ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH

  $10,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION

  $8,645

  2022 · 1 GRANT(S) FOR VARYING PURPOSES

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