ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q195

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 53343

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

• EIA'S FOREST CAMPAIGN PROTECTS THE WORLD'S FORESTS, AND THE PEOPLE, WILDLIFE AND GLOBAL CLIMATE THAT DEPEND ON THEM, BY EXPOSING ILLEGAL TIMBER OPERATIONS AND ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION FOR PRODUCTION OF COMMODITIES THROUGH UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS; EXTENSIVE RESEARCH, DATA ANALYSIS, SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, CAMPAIGNING AND ADVOCACY FOR DOMESTIC LAWS THAT BAN IMPORTS OF PRODUCTS MADE FROM ILLEGALLY CUT TIMBER OR COMMODITIES RESULTING FROM ILLICIT DEFORESTATION; ENGAGING WITH BUSINESSES AND TRADE ASSOCIATIONS TO MAKE SUPPLY CHAINS MORE TRACEABLE AND TRANSPARENT WORLDWIDE TO REINFORCE LEGALITY AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY; ADVOCATING FOR FOREST PROTECTION AND GOVERNANCE SAFEGUARDS IN TRADE POLICIES; AND STRENGTHENING FOREST GOVERNANCE AND COMMUNITY INCLUSION, WHICH IN TURN HELPS COMMUNITIES TO THRIVE AND FORESTS TO REMAIN STANDING. MORE DETAILS ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGN WORK AT: EIA.ORG/CAMPAIGNS/

  Expenses $4,709,259 · Grants $1,281,472

• EIA WILDLIFE AND OCEAN CAMPAIGNS ENVISIONS A WORLD WHERE THE WORLD'S THREATENED SPECIES, INCLUDING ELEPHANTS, RHINOS, ORANGUTANS, AND BELUGA WHALES, ARE PROTECTED, RECOVERED, AND THRIVING THROUGHOUT THEIR NATURAL RANGES. EIA RELIES ON THE BEST AVAILABLE SCIENTIFIC, CUSTOMS, AND TRADE DATA, AND INTELLIGENCE FROM INVESTIGATIONS, TO SUPPORT POLICIES AND ACTIONS THAT PROTECT THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES. EIA'S WILDLIFE CAMPAIGN WORKS WITH PARTNERS AND ALLIES ON THE GROUND TO STOP THE ILLEGAL AND UNSUSTAINABLE KILLING OF, AND TRADE IN, ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS, AND TO PROTECT THE ARCTIC HOME OF BELUGAS AND OTHER WHALES AND THE TROPICAL FOREST HABITAT OF ORANGUTANS.EIA'S APPROACH TO WILDLIFE PROTECTION FALLS UNDER TWO MAJOR WORK AREAS:1) PROTECTING TERRESTRIAL SPECIES FROM POACHING, TRAFFICKING, AND HABITAT LOSS, BY UPHOLDING INTERNATIONAL BANS ON ELEPHANT IVORY AND RHINOCEROS HORN; CAMPAIGNING FOR COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS TO ADOPT AND IMPLEMENT LAWS TO CLOSE DOWN DOMESTIC ELEPHANT IVORY AND RHINO HORN MARKETS. 2) ARCTIC MARINE SPECIES PROTECTION BY ADVOCATING FOR EFFECTIVE REGULATORY CHANGE TO PROMOTE RECOVERY FOR CRITICALLY ENDANGERED COOK INLET BELUGA WHALES; INCREASED CRITICAL HABITAT PROTECTION AND ANTHROPOGENIC THREAT REDUCTION; AND ENGAGE GOVERNMENTS, INDUSTRY, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS AT RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL DECISION-MAKING FORA TO REDUCE THREATS TO VULNERABLE MARINE MAMMAL POPULATIONS FROM UNDERWATER NOISE EXPOSURE FROM INCREASED COMMERCIAL SHIPPING AND ILLEGAL COMMERCIAL WHALING TO ACHIEVE THE DESIRED IMPACT OF ENSURING THAT FOCAL WILDLIFE SPECIES ARE NOT ONLY PROTECTED BUT THRIVING. MORE DETAILS ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGN WORK AT: EIA.ORG/CAMPAIGNS.

  Expenses $1,298,788 · Grants $205,015

• GLOBAL CLIMATE CAMPAIGN EIA IS LEADING THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT FOR A GLOBAL PHASE-OUT OF HYDROFLUOROCARBONS (HFCS)--A CLASS OF POTENT CHLORINATED CHEMICALS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC OZONE HOLES AS WELL AS ONE SIXTH OF ALL GLOBAL WARMING. EIA PROVIDES A WIDE ARRAY OF INFORMATION, THROUGH PRIMARY RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS, TO VARIOUS INDUSTRIAL SECTORS TO FACILITATE IMMEDIATE CONVERSIONS FROM OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES AND HFCS TO LOW-GWP CLIMATE FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVES. THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, INCLUDING ATMOSPHERIC AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY, CUTTING-EDGE REFRIGERATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL, EIA WORKS WITH RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS, SCIENTISTS, GOVERNMENTS, INDUSTRY AND NGOS AS WELL AS THE TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT PANEL (TEAP) THAT WAS ESTABLISHED AS THE TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS ADVISORY BODY TO THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL PARTIES, TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL INFORMATION RELATED TO THE ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED AND EMPLOYED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE USE OF OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES (SUCH AS CFCS AND HALONS), THAT HARM THE OZONE LAYER. EIA ALSO PRESENTS IN VARIOUS U.N. AND INDUSTRY EVENTS ON THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS TO PROMOTE CLIMATE-FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY THAT USE NON-FLUORINATED NON-SYNTHETIC REFRIGERANTS CURRENTLY WIDELY USED IN REFRIGERANTS AND AIR CONDITIONING. MORE DETAILS ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGN WORK AT: EIA.ORG/CAMPAIGNS.

  Expenses $907,616

• THE EXTRACTIVE CAMPAIGN AIMS TO REDUCE MINING IMPACTS AND INJUSTICES THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTIGATION-LED AND GROUND-TRUTHING CAMPAIGNS. THE CAMPAIGN AIMS TO PRIORITIZE AMBITIOUS TRANSPARENCY-BASED AND EQUITY-FOCUSED SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS, BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY, AMPLIFYING EXCITING INITIATIVES AND PARTICIPATING IN SYSTEMIC POLICY CHANGES. MORE DETAILS ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGN WORK AT: EIA.ORG/CAMPAIGNS.

  Expenses $462,639 · Grants $22,853

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

  $8,343,438

  Expenses

  $8,119,517

  Contributions

  $8,222,072

  Grants paid

  $1,509,340

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,209,160

  Expenses

  $7,938,484

  Contributions

  $7,103,983

  Grants paid

  $1,540,201

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,283,635

  Expenses

  $7,134,795

  Contributions

  $7,274,989

  Grants paid

  $1,559,570

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

  $6,987,588

  Expenses

  $6,829,204

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,230,808

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,738,333

  Expenses

  $7,127,395

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,516,701

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,185,319

  Expenses

  $6,034,234

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,731,915

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,677,266

  Expenses

  $4,974,970

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,110,884

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,062,215

  Expenses

  $4,657,357

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,471,885

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,564,104

  Expenses

  $4,791,938

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,110,099

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,780,512

  Expenses

  $4,865,158

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,293,488

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

• CODE4NATURE

  $349,376

  2024 · TIMBER TRACEABILITY SYSTEMS

• CODE4NATURE

  $331,846

  2022 · TIMBER TRACEABILITY SYSTEMS

• CODE4NATURE

  $331,340

  2023 · TIMBER TRACEABILITY SYSTEMS

• CIEL

  $80,000

  2022 · ACHIEVE COST-EFFECTIVE REDUCTIONS IN EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION

• CIEL

  $60,000

  2023 · ACHIEVE COST-EFFECTIVE REDUCTIONS IN EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION

• NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION

  $45,500

  2023 · DEFORESTATION POLICY WORK

• ALASKA WILDLIFE ALLIANCE

  $38,000

  2024 · SCOPING AND RESEARCH TO SUPPORT COOK INLET BELUGA RECOVERY

• ALASKA WILDLIFE ALLIANCE

  $32,000

  2023 · SCOPING AND RESEARCH TO SUPPORT COOK INLET BELUGA RECOVERY

• ALASKA WILDLIFE ALLIANCE

  $26,000

  2022 · SCOPING AND RESEARCH TO SUPPORT COOK INLET BELUGA RECOVERY

• WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC

  $25,000

  2023 · DEFORESTATION POLICY WORK

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $2,075,900

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $1,523,350

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $1,429,500

  2022 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE

  $875,285

  2023 · REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS

• CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

  $650,000

  2024 · TO EXPAND ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE COOLING AND REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ($350,000); TO REDUCE EMISSIONS FROM NON-CARBON POLLUTANTS ($200,000); TO PROTECT AND SUPPORT THE POTENTIAL OF FORESTED AND OTHER LANDSCAPES TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE ($100,000)

• WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE

  $526,438

  2024 · REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS

• CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

  $326,441

  2022 · LOBBYING & PROJECT SUPPORT

• CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

  $270,923

  2023 · PROJECT SUPPORT

• ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC

  $225,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $172,385

  2024 · Environment

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

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