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ENDANGERED HABITATS LEAGUE INC

EIN 95-4455451 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2025
$1,103,617
Expenses 2025
$1,315,073

Program services were 96.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D010
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 71001

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

EHL leads the way toward a better future for southern California through the creation of secure intact native landscapes where diverse, abundant wildlife thrives, by building sustainable human communities with a high quality of life for everyone, and by protecting rural and agricultural lands from being overrun by urban sprawl.

Activities or mission (Part I)

LONG-TERM LAND USE PLANNING STRATEGIES The Endangered Habitats League is dedicated to protecting the many ecosystems of Southern California and to sensitive, sustainable land uses to benefit the regions inhabitants.

  • Since 1991, the Endangered Habitats League has worked on Californias Natural Communities Conservation Planning program. EHL works with local and state advisory groups, reviews and analyzes technical documents, appears in legal proceedings, comments on and/or initiates relevant scientific studies for regional climate action and land use programs. EHL served on the Tejon Ranch Conservancy Board of Directors and on advisory committees in San Diego and Orange Counties, in the former to adopt a new North County habitat plan and in the latter to direct Measure M funding to create connectivity between NCCP regions. In San Bernardino County, in 2025, EHL made progress in its goal to preserve vital habitat for the endangered San Bernardino Kangaroo Rat and restore the upper Santa Ana River. The launch of the Greater Prado Basin Habitat Conservation Plan complements this effort. In Riverside County, EHL worked to protect a regional wildlife linkage along Temecula Creek. EHL participated in a consortium that introduces fishermen to gear systems that do not entangle whales.

    Expenses $431,004 · Grants $102,000

  • EHL takes an active role in cross-border protection of habitats common to Baja California and southern California. EHL partners with Terra Peninsular and Jardin Botanico de San Quintin, Baja-based non-profits which protect habitat in Baja California through land purchases and conservation agreements with land owners, and through education programs for local residents. In 2007 and again in 2012, EHL assisted with important transactions that protected key coastal properties. In 2024, EHL continued assistance to Terra Peninsular for the stewardship of these lands, the undertaking of supporting scientific studies, and, in particular, by protecting legal rights to an essential estuary in the preserve.

    Expenses $663,824 · Grants $651,749

  • In 2006, EHL established the Endangered Habitats Conservancy for the purpose of holding land and conservation easements and managing them for their habitat values. The Conservancy has undertaken extensive habitat restoration programs along the San Diego River and elsewhere, primarily in San Diego County. In 2007, the first acquisition of 314 acres of coastal sage scrub habitat was completed, forming a southern extension of the Crestridge Ecological Preserve. Work continued on acquisition of a two-mile stretch of river basin for habitat restoration and park uses with additional purchases in 2008 and 2009 for a cumulative investment of more than 10,000,000. In 2013, EHL completed the transfer of ownership and management of these lands to EHC. In 2024, EHL continued facilitating the purchase of additional conservation property through a grant for transaction costs and operating support.

    Expenses $180,000 · Grants $180,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Michael Beck

    Director

    Total calculated
    $161,536
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $122,000
    Other
    $39,536
    Hours/week
    5 + 36 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $122,000 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported + $39,536 related
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported + $161,536 related

  • Daniel Silver

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $125,000
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jess Morton

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $37,500
    From this org
    $37,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Jane Block

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter DeSimone

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Messer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,103,617
    Expenses
    $1,315,073
    Contributions
    $919,180
    Grants paid
    $753,749
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,190,447
    Expenses
    $1,059,428
    Contributions
    $735,882
    Grants paid
    $764,324
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $916,938
    Expenses
    $720,754
    Contributions
    $791,299
    Grants paid
    $410,550
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,057,051
    Expenses
    $1,396,231
    Contributions
    $844,340
    Grants paid
    $702,310

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
    $1,787,619
    Expenses
    $1,070,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,449,062

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $818,730
    Expenses
    $846,320
    Assets (EOY)
    $735,491

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,148,477
    Expenses
    $991,330
    Assets (EOY)
    $757,661

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,124,080
    Expenses
    $1,050,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $598,878

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,067,839
    Expenses
    $900,189
    Assets (EOY)
    $525,803

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $693,783
    Expenses
    $837,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $358,005

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $434,838
    Expenses
    $433,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $500,456

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $764,328
    Expenses
    $560,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $499,632

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,424,606
    Expenses
    $12,268,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $295,894

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,721,713
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,665,307

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

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

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Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.