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CENTRE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES INC

EIN 84-3990793 BETHESDA, MD

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Revenue 2024
$837,043
Expenses 2024
$540,894

Program services were 97.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30
Classification
4000
Street
5808 DURBIN RD

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

Mission

CWS, Inc., raises funds primarily in North America from individual, private, and government sources and finances wildlife conservation and related projects in the wildlife habitat areas across the globe, including financing any related projects that may be outside the habitats, as well as projects of indirect benefit to the wildlife

Activities or mission (Part I)

CWS, Inc., raises funds primarily in North America from individual, private, and government sources and finances wildlife conservation and related projects in the wildlife habitat areas

  • CWS, Inc., finances wildlife conservation and related projects in the wildlife habitat areas across the globe, principally by partnering with NGOs active in a given habitat. Additionally, CWS, Inc., may partner with other global conservation organizations outside the habitat that have specific expertise or technologies, e.g., for forest monitoring using modern technology. CWS, Inc., also directly pays vendors for specific services relevant to its mission. Finally, CWS, Inc., undertakes directly, or in participation with local organizations, projects of indirect benefit to the wildlife such as medical and social care assistance to foster goodwill of the impoverished rural human population resident in and near the wildlife habitat. The program activities are affected to the extent the level of fundraising is expected to vary from year to year due to economic and social conditions.

    Expenses $528,094

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Sriram Raghavan

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sumana Shashidhar

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ajit Thyagarajan

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Venkatesh Raghavendra

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Geoffrey Ward

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sunil Somalwar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $837,043
    Expenses
    $540,894
    Contributions
    $793,230
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $677,868
    Expenses
    $441,584
    Contributions
    $657,655
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $555,945
    Expenses
    $607,038
    Contributions
    $555,945
    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
    $1,031,847
    Expenses
    $354,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $686,059

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Ajit Thyagarajan
Mailing address
5808 Durbin RdBethesda MD 20817

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.