VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D34

Classification

1000

Street

9699 BLUE LARKSPUR LN STE 105

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 · 2024

• EDUCATION AND OUTREACH: Using nature as a classroom, the Society helps children and adults understand and appreciate wildlife conservation and the outdoors while exploring ways they can contribute to its protection or enhancement. Largely funded by government grants intended for under served populations, the Society operates a year-round active youth education program that includes Natural Science Discovery Camp, Wee Ones in the Woods, Condor Wilderness Camp and After School Program for Teens during the school year. The Society serves as training grounds for recent college graduates by offering internships in a professional, hands-on setting. In addition, the Society provides timely and meaningful information through its newsletter, press releases, special events, exhibits, videos, films, and scientific presentations and publications.

  Expenses $1,190,609 · Revenue $34,827

• SPECIES RECOVERY: FOCUSING ON NATIVE SPECIES OF WILDLIFE, THE SOCIETY REINTRODUCES, MANAGES, AND MONITORS WILD POPULATIONS OF ANIMALS. THE SOCIETY RESTORED A POPULATION OF BALD EAGLES IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, ALONG WITH PARTNERS, AND CONTINUES TO RELEASE EAGLES AND OTHER BIRDS OF PREY AS NEEDED. THE SOCIETY IS ACTIVELY REINTRODUCING CALIFORNIA CONDORS TO CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. WORKING CLOSELY WITH LANDOWNERS AND GOVERNMENT, THE SOCIETY HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE AT ENCOURAGING A SWITCH FROM LEAD TO NONLEAD AMMUNITION IN KEY CONDOR AREAS SINCE THE INGESTION OF SPENT LEAD AMMUNITION REMAINS THE GREATEST THREAT TO THEIR RECOVERY. THE SOCIETY IS ALSO PARTICIPATING IN A COLLABORATION TO RESTORE CONDORS TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND BUILDING A PROGRAM-WIDE, INTER-AGENCY, ONLINE DATABASE TO FACILITATE SHARING AND RESEARCH.

  Expenses $1,009,932

• ECOLOGICAL SERVICES: Through research and monitoring projects, the Society determines the status, health, and distribution of wildlife species, with an emphasis on birds. Clients include government and private enterprise and often involve consultation by Society experts to assess risk to birds from wind power and overhead powerlines, large-scale land use changes, and other projects to help safeguard wildlife in the future.

  Expenses $30,012

• REBUILDING THE CONDOR SANCTUARY IN BIG SUR, CA: The Dolan Wildfire of August 2020 destroyed all facilities at this remote property where California Condor Recovery work has taken place since 1997 when the first release of captive-bred condors in central California. The rebuilding effort is underway to build bigger and better facilities including a new Condor Release Facility and a Bunkhouse / Research Facility for use by biologists.

  Expenses $2,729

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 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. 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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,656,010

  Expenses

  $2,756,108

  Contributions

  $2,559,323

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,711,537

  Expenses

  $2,476,915

  Contributions

  $2,653,102

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,138,185

  Expenses

  $2,048,090

  Contributions

  $2,115,809

  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

  $1,699,509

  Expenses

  $1,718,305

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,379,258

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,518,636

  Expenses

  $1,317,927

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,231,542

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,042,076

  Expenses

  $1,243,790

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,707,459

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,240,883

  Expenses

  $1,232,242

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,040,575

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,201,440

  Expenses

  $1,290,221

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,047,431

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,443,518

  Expenses

  $1,211,864

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,228,671

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,035,475

  Expenses

  $1,104,767

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,970,603

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,064,921

  Expenses

  $880,265

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,043,366

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,019,404

  Expenses

  $848,480

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,856,854

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $799,784

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,811,693

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

• EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $125,000

  2022 · GENERAL CONDOR SUPPORT, GENERAL SUPPORT, CONDOR HPAI RELIEF

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $105,250

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $54,568

  2022 · CA CONDOR RECOVERY

• MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION

  $45,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2022 · OPERATING SUPPORT

• MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2023 · OPERATING SUPPORT

• PARKS CALIFORNIA

  $39,584

  2023 · 2023-2024 ROUTE TO PARKS GRANT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

  $26,000

  2022 · FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $21,600

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

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