- Revenue 2025
- $876,691
- Expenses 2025
- $4,305,965
Program services were 52.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C34
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 29209
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
Mission
SEE SCHEDULE O TOMPKINS CONSERVATION IS DEDICATED TO PROTECTING AND RESTORING WILDLAND ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY IN CHILE, ARGENTINA AND THE UNITED STATES. AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, TOMPKINS CONSERVATION'S GOAL IS TO PRESERVE INTACT ECOSYSTEMS, TO SUPPORT ACQUISITION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVATELY OWNED WILDLANDS, AND ULTIMATELY TO RETURN ITS LANDHOLDINGS TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR PERMANENT PROTECTION IN THE FORM OF NATIONAL PARKS OR RESERVES.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TOMPKINS CONSERVATION'S MISSION IS PROTECTING AND REWILDING THE EARTH.
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SEE SCHEDULE OALONG WITH PROTECTING HABITAT, TOMPKINS CONSERVATION SUPPORTS THE REWILDING PROGRAMS IN CHILE AND ARGENTINA THAT ARE HELPING DIMINISHED WILDLIFE POPULATIONS RETURN TO ABUNDANCE, AND REINTRODUCING MISSING NATIVE SPECIES TO REASSEMBLE WHOLE AND HEALTHY NATURAL COMMUNITIES.
Expenses $700,000 · Grants $700,000
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SEE SCHEDULE OTOMPKINS CONSERVATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF PROTECTED AREAS ON LAND AND SEA. GRANTS WERE MADE TO PURCHASE AND SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF CREATING NATIONAL PARKS THAT ARE KEY TO THE REWILDING PROGRAM IN ARGENTINA AND CHILE.
Expenses $1,032,569 · Grants $1,032,569
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SEE SCHEDULE OGRANT FOR THE TOMPKINS CONSERVATION ARCHIVE PROJECT TO PROVIDE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION ON THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND REWILDING EFFORTS OF THE ORGANIZATION.
Expenses $220,000 · Grants $220,000
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PROVIDED SUPPORT FOR FUNDRAISING AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS OF THE ORGANIZATION IN ARGENTINA TO RAISE FUNDS FOR PROTECTING HABITAT AND REWILDING PROGRAMS; GRANTS TO SUPORT REWILDING PROJECTS TO HELP DIMINISHED WILDLIFE POPULATIONS RETURN TO ABUNDANCE, AND REINTRODUCING MISSING NATIVE SPECIES TO REASSEMBLE WHOLE AND HEALTHY NATURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES; AND DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS AS TOOLS TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND ON THE CREATION OF NATIONAL PARKS AS A WAY TO PRESERVE ECOSYSTEMS AND A RECOVERY PROCESS OF THEREATENED SPECIES.
Expenses $297,486 · Grants $235,487
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.
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DEBRA B RYKER
SECRETARY/TREASURER/VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $379,814
- From this org
- $376,420
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $3,394
- Hours/week
- 32
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $376,420
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $3,394
- Filer's total
- $379,814
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ESTHER LI
VICE PRESIDENT/CONTROLLER
- Total calculated
- $362,797
- From this org
- $326,007
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $36,790
- Hours/week
- 32
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $326,007
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,780
- Nontaxable benefits
- $27,010
- Filer's total
- $362,797
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CAROLYN MCCARTHY
GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $177,886
- From this org
- $153,673
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $24,213
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $153,673
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,610
- Nontaxable benefits
- $19,603
- Filer's total
- $177,886
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NICOLE PERMAN
CHIEF OF STAFF
- Total calculated
- $111,100
- From this org
- $109,921
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $1,179
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $35,101
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $74,820
- Deferred
- $1,053
- Nontaxable benefits
- $126
- Filer's total
- $111,100
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KRISTINE M TOMPKINS
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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QUINCEY T IMHOFF
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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PETER BUCKLEY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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MALINDA CHOUINARD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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YVON CHOUINARD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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THOMAS BUTLER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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JIB ELLISON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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GEORGE WUERTHNER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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RICK RIDGEWAY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $876,691
- Expenses
- $4,305,965
- Contributions
- $200,000
- Grants paid
- $2,188,056
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2024
- Revenue
- $2,969,607
- Expenses
- $5,508,118
- Contributions
- $671
- Grants paid
- $3,190,986
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2023
- Revenue
- -$55,603,445
- Expenses
- $5,651,555
- Contributions
- $50,000
- Grants paid
- $3,124,267
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2022
- Revenue
- -$15,388,347
- Expenses
- $9,165,271
- Contributions
- $5,407,255
- Grants paid
- $6,015,696
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $21,346,092
- Expenses
- $43,119,940
- Assets (EOY)
- $101,073,134
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $12,984,019
- Expenses
- $20,751,313
- Assets (EOY)
- $121,917,870
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,718,261
- Expenses
- $321,407
- Assets (EOY)
- $62,743,244
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,933,617
- Expenses
- $373,670
- Assets (EOY)
- $57,396,390
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.
Grants made
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$2,470,845
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT - RWA & RWC PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF CASA KUSCHEL, PANTHERA GRANT FOR COUGAR RESEARCH, CAPE FROWARD - 2025 EARLY PLEDGE, PATAGONIA AZUL PROJECT - FOUNDATION SIN AZUL, CAPE FROWARD INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT COST, ECOSISTEMAS PROJECT, FOR NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST, AND FOR MIGHTY EARTH (COUGAR CAMPAIGN).
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$2,266,391
2023 SUPPORT EFFORTS TO PROMOTE WILDERNESS PROTECTION AND RECOVERY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION.
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$1,486,906
2025 CHILE AND ARGENTINA LAND PRESERVATION PROJECTS AND GENERAL SUPPORT
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$857,876
2023 SUPPORT EFFORTS TO PROMOTE WILDERNESS PROTECTION AND RECOVERY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION.
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$470,000
2025 ARGENTINA REWILDING PROJECT SUPPORT
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$340,000
2024 TOMPKINS CONSERVATION ARCHIVE PROJECT
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LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
$220,000
2025 ARCHIVE PROJECT
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2024 STRENGTHENING FUNDACION REWILDING ARGENTINA'S FUNDRAISING TEAM
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$100,354
2022 SUPPORT EFFORTS TO PROMOTE WILDERNESS PROTECTION AND RECOVERY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION.
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$10,000
2025 DONATION FOR 12/31 GIVING DAY MARCH
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Disregarded entities on its 2025 return
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CONSERVACION PATAGONICA LLC
OWNS LOAN RECEIVABLE · DE · income $514 · assets $7,049
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.