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ELEPHANTVOICES

EIN 26-3462274 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$380,732
Expenses 2025
$325,935

Program services were 93.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D053
Classification
1240
Street
2909 GARFIELD TER NW

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

TO INSPIRE WONDER IN THE INTELLIGENCE, COMPLEXITY, AND VOICES OF ELEPHANTS AND TO SECURE A KINDER FUTURE FOR THEM THROUGH CONSERVATION, RESEARCH, AND SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $175,185

  • WELFARE: NETWORKED GLOBALLY FOR ELEPHANTS AND THEIR WELFARE; WROTE LETTERS REGARDING ELEPHANT WELFARE POLICY AND AFFIDAVITS ON BEHALF OF INDIVIDUAL ELEPHANTS AND COMMUNICATED WITH OTHERS ABOUT POTENTIAL ACTION AND IMPROVEMENTS FOR ELEPHANTS IN NEED; ACTED AS AN EXPERT WITNESS FOR THE NON-HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT'S EFFORT TO GAIN HABEAS CORPUS FOR ELEPHANTS; PARTICIPATED IN THE BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE'S MULTISPECIES CONSTITUTION PROJECT.

    Expenses $30,321

  • EDUCATION: CONTINUED TO PROMOTE THE ELEPHANT ETHOGRAM: A LIBRARY OF AFRICAN ELEPHANT BEHAVIOR VIA EXTERNAL MEDIA; MAINTAINED ELEPHANTVOICES.ORG (STARTED THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A NEW AND MORE MODERN VERSION), FB.COM/ELEPHANTVOICES, INSTAGRAM.COM/ELEPHANTVOICES AND X.COM/ELEPHANTVOICES, LINKEDIN.COM/COMPANY/ELEPHANTVOICES AND COMMUNICATED WITH THOSE ACTIVE ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA; ACTED AS SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND FILMING OF A PBS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MALE ELEPHANT BEHAVIOR; GAVE ADVICE TO OTHER ELEPHANT DOCUMENTARIES; GAVE SCORES OF INTERVIEWS FOR NEWS ARTICLES, TV SEGMENTS AND RADIO BROADCASTS; PROVIDED AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY WITH ADDITIONAL MULTIMEDIA MATERIAL FOR THEIR TRAVELING EXHIBIT THE SECRET WORLD OF ELEPHANTS; ADVISED AND ASSISTED STUDENTS, REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND WROTE RECOMMENDATIONS; COMMUNICATED WITH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ABOUT ELEPHANTS AND THEIR BEHAVIOR, CONSERVATION, AND WELFARE.

    Expenses $99,276

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Petter Granli

    PRESIDENT/CE

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $100,000
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joyce Poole

    SCIENTIFIC D

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $100,000
    Hours/week
    40

  • Prof Andrew Dobson

    MEMBER OF BO

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Cynthia L Jensen

    SECRETARY OF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $380,732
    Expenses
    $325,935
    Contributions
    $356,761
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $662,965
    Expenses
    $277,275
    Contributions
    $644,794
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $278,691
    Expenses
    $192,724
    Contributions
    $276,540
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $198,708
    Expenses
    $199,537
    Contributions
    $198,245
    Grants paid
    $11,322

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
    $171,679
    Expenses
    $190,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $576,260

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $155,107
    Expenses
    $201,781
    Assets (EOY)
    $594,691

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $133,274
    Expenses
    $181,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $669,474

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $72,043
    Expenses
    $272,518
    Assets (EOY)
    $717,695

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $156,523
    Expenses
    $215,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $918,171

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,940
    Expenses
    $239,632
    Assets (EOY)
    $977,642

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $344,874
    Expenses
    $177,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $962,334

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $203,126
    Expenses
    $311,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $837,569

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $366,308
    Expenses
    $239,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $886,571

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $139,878
    Assets (EOY)
    $759,470

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.