WILD EARTH SOCIETY INCORPORATED

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A33Z

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 243

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 · 2025

• Western Wildway: In collaboration with our partners and volunteers, we removed and modified wire from 12.3 miles of prioritized fence lines within the winter range of the Paunsaugunt mule deer herd in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and surveyed approximately 30 miles of fence on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land. The surveys assess which fences are acting as barriers to wildlife movement, specifically for the pronghorn that inhabit the valley. In partnership with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Sageland Collaborative, we developed guidelines for using DWR's fence mapping app that helps identify and prioritize fences for improvement across the state. We captured a mountain lion crossing through one of the large border wall openings that were opened as a result of the 2023 border wall settlement. We published new research confirming a devastating truth: the U.S.-Mexico border wall is reducing wildlife movement by 86%. Our work was featured in "Nature Divided," a documentary following our Borderlands Program Coordinator, Myles Traphagen, as he documents both the damage and the growing promise of reconnecting cross-border habitat. We led the legislative campaign in New Mexico that secured a record $50 million investment in the Wildlife Corridors fund, the largest single appropriation ever dedicated to terrestrial wildlife crossings in the country.

  Expenses $985,755 · Revenue $12,490

• Eastern Wildway: Two more (of five total) bridges on I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge were replaced and completed with wildlife friendly infrastructure based on Wildlands Network and NPCA's recommendations. We concluded our fourth field season monitoring wildlife use of small road underpasses at Gorges State Park, as well as evaluating the effect of fencing on crossing structure use. We're now compiling available location data in the southern Appalachian mountain region for spotted skunk, eastern box turtle, and timber rattlesnake to create maps that can inform sites where NC State Parks and Blue Ridge Parkway can help conserve and connect three of our species of conservation concern. We also participated in the first South Carolina Wildlife Connectivity Coalition meeting along with representatives from SCDOT, SC NGO's, Clemson University, and several local government agencies to begin developing a strategy for wildlife crossing implementation in SC. We complete the first full year of roadkill data collection on US 64 in the red wolf recovery area on July 31 of this year.

  Expenses $707,985

• Pacific Wildway: With the help of local partners, we helped California identify six new priority sites for crossings along U.S. 395 in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, to help mule deer, bears, and other species safely cross this deadly road. We cosponsored the Room to Roam Act (AB 1889), requiring local governments to incorporate wildlife connectivity into general plans. We organized a policy collaborative through California Wildlife Reconnected that launched a campaign to address existing gaps to integrating wildlife crossings in transportation planning and implementation. Our trail campaign realigned its 500-mile trail proposal to focus on maintaining existing routes and limiting new routes to those closer to communities rather than building new trails. We established the Baja Connectivity coalition to share data and strategize a reform response to proposed and ongoing border construction's impacts to wildlife. We organized and drafted over $5 million in successful State Route 62 (Riverside County) WCB grants for wildlife crossing planning and design across priority corridors.

  Expenses $516,891 · Revenue $21,753

• In Virginia, we successfully advocated for a $450,000 appropriation to support high priority wildlife crossing projects identified within the state's Wildlife Corridor Action Plan. In Maryland, we were successful in supporting the passage of Maryland's Wildlife Connectivity and Crossings Act to prioritize habitat connectivity in development projects and create a coalition to manage the process. We secured funding to support new jaguar corridors between Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora, Mexico including promoting the need for new wildlife crossings over Mexico's Highway 2 to key decision makers. As part of the NOSSA coalition we coordinated a report revealing that Mexico's budget for natural protected areas proposed for 2025 hit an 18-year low. The report garnered national and international attention with over 80 articles and headlines, placing this issue on the public agenda and in the spotlight for stakeholders and legislators.

  Expenses $921,006 · Grants $2,700 · Revenue $24,852

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

  $4,066,055

  Expenses

  $3,861,046

  Contributions

  $3,959,815

  Grants paid

  $2,700

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,540,023

  Expenses

  $3,599,458

  Contributions

  $4,447,750

  Grants paid

  $51,868

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,998,077

  Expenses

  $3,163,090

  Contributions

  $2,958,871

  Grants paid

  $55,532

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,109,537

  Expenses

  $2,695,751

  Contributions

  $3,098,747

  Grants paid

  $42,500

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

  $2,902,540

  Expenses

  $2,394,188

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,375,394

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,357,295

  Expenses

  $1,876,282

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,999,976

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,103,850

  Expenses

  $1,931,509

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,206,558

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,662,732

  Expenses

  $1,420,376

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,012,529

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,369,415

  Expenses

  $1,109,815

  Assets (EOY)

  $782,651

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,077,970

  Expenses

  $1,097,647

  Assets (EOY)

  $502,196

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,014,938

  Expenses

  $956,307

  Assets (EOY)

  $528,744

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,103,802

  Expenses

  $891,035

  Assets (EOY)

  $460,980

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $834,036

  Expenses

  $803,754

  Assets (EOY)

  $300,675

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $729,054

  Assets (EOY)

  $288,321

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

• National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

  $23,000

  2024 · Support

• National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

  $23,000

  2023 · Support

• Navajo Fish & Wildlife

  $18,000

  2024 · Support

• SOUTHERN UTE TRIBE

  $15,000

  2022 · SUPPORT EFFORTS

• Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

  $7,500

  2024 · Support

• Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center

  $5,000

  2023 · Support

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC

  $837,909

  2024 · GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $690,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $565,000

  2023 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $500,000

  2022 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC

  $210,800

  2022 · GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $157,650

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS

  $127,069

  2024 · Policy

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $122,750

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2025 · ENVIORNMENTAL

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $93,000

  2024 · ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT

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

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