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HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND INC

EIN 84-2776877 ATLANTA, GA

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Revenue 2024
$158,629
Expenses 2024
$236,455

Program services were 85.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C99
Classification
1200
Street
1870 THE EXCHANGE SE STE 220 PMB 23

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

HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND ACCELERATES ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES AROUND THE WORLD BY WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS, NONPROFIT, AND PHILANTHROPY TO DRIVE BREAKTHROUGH CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS. WE WORK WITH EARLY-STAGE NONPROFITS, SMALL BUSINESSES, AND PHILANTHROPIES TO MAXIMIZE THEIR IMPACT AND ALLEVIATE FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STARTUP PHASE OF A PROJECT, PROGRAM, OR ORGANIZATION. HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION THROUGH SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS AND EDUCATION. DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF U.S. LAW BASED ON OUR 501(C)(3) PUBLIC CHARITY STATUS.

  • CIRCULAR ECONOMY - IN 2024, HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND HELPED LEAD A RETURN EXPEDITION TO HENDERSON ISLAND, THE WORLD'S MOST PLASTIC POLLUTED BEACH, FINISHING THE WORK WE STARTED IN 2019. THE 2024 EXPEDITION MARKED A SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD IN UNDERSTANDING PLASTIC WASTE ON HENDERSON ISLAND. THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES CONDUCTED ON HENDERSON CONTRIBUTED CRUCIAL DATA THAT TRACKS HOW LITTER ACCUMULATES IN THE MOST REMOTE PLACES. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL ISLANDERS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE EXPEDITION ARE HELPING BUILD LOCAL STEWARDSHIP AND OWNERSHIP OF COLLECTION AND MONITORING ACTIVITIES. SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS FROM THE EXPEDITION ARE DUE OUT IN 2025.

    Expenses $75,259

  • BIRD SPECIES - HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND HAS SUPPORTED THE LOON PRESERVATION COMMITTEE SINCE OUR INCEPTION. THIS NEW HAMPSHIRE NONPROFIT FOCUSES ON PROTECTING LOONS AND PROMOTING CONSERVATION EFFORTS THROUGH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST FUNDERS OF LEAD TACKLE BUYBACK PROGRAM. SINCE THE START OF THE PROGRAM, 78,500+ PIECES (631.3 POUNDS) OF LEAD TACKLE HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM CIRCULATION, DIRECTLY PREVENTING LOON FATALITIES, SAFEGUARDING THE LIVES OF LOCAL WILDLIFE AND PRESERVING VITAL AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS.

    Expenses $11,082 · Grants $5,000

  • MARINE RESTORATION - IN 2024, HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND LAUNCHED A NEW BIOREGIONAL FINANCE FACILITY (BFF), FOCUSING ON MARINE REGENERATION IN THE CARIBBEAN. WE BROUGHT STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER IN NEW YORK CITY AS PART OF CLIMATE WEEK, CO-HOSTING A MEETING WITH SALESFORCE TO ESTABLISH THE SCOPE OF PROJECT, TO IDENTIFY LOCATION IN THE BAHAMAS, AND START DUE DILIGENCE TIED TO PILOTING THE BFF APPROACH.

    Expenses $5,263

  • CATALYTIC GRANT - IN 2024, HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND RAN A CATALYTIC GRANT PROGRAM, NURTURING DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION ACROSS A MYRIAD OF COMMUNITIES, SPARKING ESSENTIAL GROWTH IN ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES AS WE SUPPORTED GRANTS FOR NEW GRANTEES WE HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY WORKED WITH IN THE PAST. WHILE THE MAJORITY OF FUNDS WERE DISBURSED TO GRANTEES AT THE END OF 2023 (REFLECTED IN OUR 2023 TAX RETURN), THE WORK WAS COMPLETED BY GRANTEES IN 2024. RESULTS OF THE CATALYTIC GRANTS CAN BE FOUND IN OUR 2024 IMPACT REPORT ON OUR WEBSITE AT HTTPS://WWW.HOWELLCONSERVATION.ORG/POST/2024- YEAR-END-IMPACT-REPORT. FISCAL SPONSORSHIP - HOWELL CONSERVATION FUND WORKED WITH CRDC FOUNDATION THROUGHOUT 2023 AND 2024. THE ORGANIZATIONS COMPLETED THEIR FISCAL RELATIONSHIP AND CLOSED OUT BY THE END OF 2024.

    Expenses $110,045 · Grants $11,750

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.

  • Brett Howell

    EXECUTIVE DI

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

  • Stephanie Brown

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Justin Howell

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Wootton

    TREASURER/SE

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $158,629
    Expenses
    $236,455
    Contributions
    $129,100
    Grants paid
    $16,750
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $254,466
    Expenses
    $97,468
    Contributions
    $224,447
    Grants paid
    $47,435
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $78,059
    Expenses
    $75,368
    Contributions
    $73,395
    Grants paid
    $15,610

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $67,728
    Expenses
    $22,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,915

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $81,366
    Expenses
    $23,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,184

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Brett Howell
Mailing address
1224 Virginia Ct NEAtlanta GA 30306

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

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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 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.