TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D30

Classification

4000

Street

5900 CORE RD STE 504

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

• FIELD CONSERVATION CONDUCTS FIELD RESEARCH. DEVELOPS CONSERVATION PLANS AND PUTS THOSE PLANS INTO ACTION. PROMOTES CONSERVATION AWARENESS AMONG LOCAL COMMUNITIES, PROVIDES SUPPORT, KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING AROUND THE WORLD. ADVOCATES FOR GREATER ENFORCEMENT OF WILDLIFE LAWS.

  Expenses $2,750,872 · Grants $987,531

• CONFERENCE-HOSTING AN AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 250 ATTENDEES OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. THE SYMPOSIUM REPRESENTS THE LARGEST GATHERING OF THE NON-MARINE TURTLE BIOLOGISTS IN THE WORLD AND PROVIDES AN UNMATCHED OPPORTUNITY FOR NETWORKING AND STRATEGIZING ABOUT TURTLE CONSERVATION. IN ADDITION, THE MEETING PROVIDES A VENUE FOR EXISTING TURTLE CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS TO MEET.

  Expenses $293,578

• ANIMAL MANAGEMENT - TSA CURRENTLY OWNS AND MANAGES MORE THAN 2000 TURTLES AND TORTOISES REPRESENTING MORE THAN 50 SPECIES. CURRENTLY THESE 2000+ ANIMALS RESIDE AT TSA'S TURTLE SURVIVAL CENTER IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND WITH 93 PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS, 33 ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS AND FIVE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (I.E. UNIVERSITIES AND VETERINARY SCHOOLS).

  Expenses $1,232,936

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $11,011,840

  Expenses

  $5,569,191

  Contributions

  $10,044,775

  Grants paid

  $987,531

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,813,270

  Expenses

  $4,300,262

  Contributions

  $2,932,279

  Grants paid

  $719,302

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,047,456

  Expenses

  $3,946,815

  Contributions

  $2,036,488

  Grants paid

  $1,460,781

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,047,456

  Expenses

  $3,946,815

  Contributions

  $2,036,488

  Grants paid

  $1,460,781

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,279,795

  Expenses

  $3,745,817

  Contributions

  $1,753,526

  Grants paid

  $1,460,781

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,647,194

  Expenses

  $2,894,565

  Contributions

  $2,343,516

  Grants paid

  $965,049

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

  $1,936,009

  Expenses

  $2,933,964

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,364,749

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,117,002

  Expenses

  $1,499,625

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,917,779

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $0

  Expenses

  $0

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,633,731

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,358,415

  Expenses

  $1,921,104

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,280,975

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,879,437

  Expenses

  $2,137,098

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,735,923

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,927,200

  Expenses

  $2,195,941

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,633,731

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,181,418

  Expenses

  $1,268,038

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,520,654

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,058,471

  Expenses

  $1,287,687

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,584,670

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,496,708

  Expenses

  $1,169,553

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,549,620

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $909,446

  Expenses

  $1,038,574

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,323,245

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

• ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS & AQUARIUMS

  $22,000

  2022 · GRANT MAKING FOR CONDUCTING SURVEYS, CAPTIVE POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND/OR RESEARCH.

• WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE

  $16,000

  2022 · GRANT MAKING FOR CONDUCTING SURVEYS, CAPTIVE POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND/OR RESEARCH.

• WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE

  $16,000

  2023 · GRANT MAKING FOR CONDUCTING SURVEYS, CAPTIVE POPULATION MANAGEMENT AND/OR RESEARCH.

• KNOXVILLE ZOO

  $14,800

  2025 · THIS GRANT FUNDED THE MONITORING OF CRITICALLY ENDANGERED BOG TURTLES IN TWO FIELD SITES IN WESTERN NORTHCAROLINA TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF HURRICANE HELENE ON THESE POPULATIONS.

• MT ADAMS RESOURCE STEWARD

  $14,400

  2024 · BULLFROG/WESTERN POND TURTLE FUNDING/SPECIAL PROJECTS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $2,756,549

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $893,451

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $843,431

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $711,370

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $325,058

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $156,376

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

  $134,780

  2022 · BACK FROM THE BRINK: RECOVERING TWO CRITICALLY ENDANGERED TURTLES IN MYANMAR

• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

  $105,220

  2023 · BACK FROM THE BRINK: RECOVERING TWO CRITICALLY ENDANGERED TURTLES IN MYANMAR

• COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION

  $78,600

  2023 · ANIMAL CONSERVATION

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $75,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

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

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