NATURE CONSERVANCY

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

2800

Street

4245 FAIRFAX DR STE 100

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 100). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• BLUE INVESTMENTS FOR NATURE INC

  EIN 85-1228166

• FONDS DE PRESERVATION DE LA BIODIVERSITE AU GABON INC

  EIN 93-2410393

• NATURES CAPITAL INC

  EIN 93-3463243

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (TNC) IS FOCUSED ON CONSERVING THE LANDS AND WATERS ON WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS. WE WORK ACROSS SIX CONTINENTS, INCLUDING IN MORE THAN 80 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES, AND ALL 50 STATES IN THE U.S., TO CONSERVE THE LANDS AND WATERS ON WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS. OUR VISION IS A FUTURE WHERE PEOPLE AND NATURE THRIVE. GROUNDED BY DECADES OF LOCAL ON-THE-GROUND EXPERIENCE, WE MAXIMIZE OUR ABILITY TO AFFECT CHANGE BY BRINGING TOGETHER REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS, POLICY EXPERTISE, SUSTAINABLE FINANCING, AND COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS. WORKING WITH PARTNERS AROUND THE WORLD, TNC CONTINUES TO MAKE PROGRESS TOWARDS OUR GOALS FOR A HEALTHIER PLANET.SEE SCHEDULE O FOR CONTINUATIONTNC'S ACCOUNTING METHODOLOGY THROUGH THE 2024 TAX YEAR DOES NOT ATTRIBUTE REVENUES OR ALL PROGRAM EXPENSES TO INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS, BECAUSE MANY PROJECTS ADVANCE MULTIPLE CONSERVATION GOALS. ACCORDINGLY, A STRICT SEPARATION OF PROGRAMS IN PART III WOULD NOT ACCURATELY REFLECT PROGRAMMATIC EXPENDITURES AND CORRESPONDING REVENUE. TNC ORGANIZES ITS WORK AROUND THREE GLOBAL PRIORITIES, AIMED AT SOLVING SOME OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGES FACING OUR PLANET. PROTECT OCEANS, LAND, AND WATERDURING THE 2024 TAX YEAR, TNC WORKED TOWARDS CONSERVING CRITICAL FORESTS, GRASSLANDS, OCEANS, FRESHWATER SYSTEMS, WILDLIFE, AND COASTAL AREAS WORLDWIDE. NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE: - SUPPORTING THE RATIFICATION OF THE HIGH SEAS TREATY, A LANDMARK LEGAL AGREEMENT BY 60 COUNTRIES TO PROTECT THE HIGH SEAS - AN AREA OF OCEAN COVERING NEARLY HALF THE PLANET.- EXPANDING THE NATURE BONDS PROGRAM, WHICH WORKS WITH NATIONS TO REFINANCE THEIR DEBT, AND HAS UNLOCKED $1 BILLION TO HELP CONSERVE OVER 242 MILLION HECTARES OF OCEAN, LAND, AND FRESHWATER GLOBALLY.- SUPPORTING LARGE-SCALE WILDLIFE HABITAT PROTECTION, WHICH HAS AIDED THE RETURN OF ENDANGERED SPECIES IN AFRICA, SUCH AS THE BLACK RHINO IN KENYA AND PREVIOUSLY DECIMATED ELEPHANT POPULATIONS IN ZAMBIA.PROVIDE WATER AND FOOD SUSTAINABLYIN THE 2024 TAX YEAR, TNC PROGRESSED TOWARDS ITS GOAL OF MAINSTREAMING NATURE POSITIVE FRESHWATER MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS, BY WORKING WITH LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS TO DEVELOP PRACTICES THAT FURTHER CONSERVATION WHILE ALSO SUPPORTING LOCAL COMMUNITIES. FOR EXAMPLE, DURING THE 2024 TAX YEAR, TNC LAUNCHED A SUSTAINABLE CATTLE PROGRAM IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON THAT IMPLEMENTS DEFORESTATION FREE AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY CHAINS THROUGH TRACEABILITY AND POLICY REFORM. TNC ALSO CONTINUED EXPANDING ITS WATERSHED INVESTMENT PROGRAMS DURING TAX YEAR 2024. SOME EXAMPLES OF THESE PROGRAMS INCLUDE: - TNC'S NATURE FOR WATER PROGRAM, WHICH HAS BEEN SCALED TO 28 COUNTRIES TO EQUIP PARTNERS WITH TOOLS AND TRAINING NEEDED TO TACKLE WATER ISSUES UNIQUE TO THEIR COMMUNITIES.- THE NORFOLK WATER STRATEGY PROGRAMME (NWSP), WHICH WAS LAUNCHED THIS YEAR BUT WHEN FULLY IMPLEMENTED, WILL IMPROVE MORE THAN 25,000 HECTARES OF WILDLIFE HABITAT IN EUROPE.- TNC-CREATED WATER FUNDS THAT HAVE SAFEGUARDED ECOSYSTEMS AND IMPROVED WATER QUALITY, SUCH AS IN ECUADOR WHERE MORE THAN 55,000 HECTARES OF ECOSYSTEMS HAVE BEEN CONSERVED.- TNC-CREATED WATER FUNDS THAT HAVE BECOME SELF-SUSTAINING AND LOCALLY MANAGED. FOR EXAMPLE, THE UPPER-TANA NAIROBI WATER FUND IN KENYA, LAUNCHED BY TNC A DECADE AGO, HAS FUNDED THE PLANTING OF MORE THAN 5.5 MILLION TREES AND ENGAGED MORE THAN 270,000 FARMERS IN IMPROVING SOIL QUALITY AND WATER USE ON THEIR LANDS.TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGEDURING THE 2024 TAX YEAR, TNC ALSO LEVERAGED NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS, POLICY, AND MARKETS TO HELP REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS AND BUILD CLIMATE RESILIENCE. TNC SUPPORTED RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND RESPONSIBLE SITING ACROSS EUROPE, INDIA, AND THE UNITED STATES. TO SUPPORT THIS ENERGY TRANSITION, TNC HELPED PUBLISH A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND SET OF BIODIVERSITY SENSITIVITY SITING MAPS TO GUIDE RENEWABLES PLANNING. TNC ALSO ADVANCED LARGE SCALE RESTORATION PROJECTS TO SUPPORT THE HEALTH OF FORESTS, PEATLANDS, RIVERS AND COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS AND STRENGTHENED INNOVATIVE CLIMATE RISK FINANCING SOLUTIONS, INCLUDING INSURANCE MECHANISMS TO PROTECT CORAL REEFS IN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, AND MANAGE WILDFIRE RISK IN CALIFORNIA.FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: HTTPS://WWW.NATURE.ORG/EN-US/ABOUT-US/WHO-WE-ARE/ACCOUNTABILITY/ANNUAL-REPORT/

  Expenses $1,025,088,528 · Grants $180,029,763 · Revenue $169,326,127

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $1,746,229,436

  Expenses

  $1,437,906,902

  Contributions

  $1,335,671,228

  Grants paid

  $180,029,763

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,482,731,301

  Expenses

  $1,352,544,893

  Contributions

  $1,182,176,843

  Grants paid

  $119,486,960

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,166,010,019

  Expenses

  $1,119,899,341

  Contributions

  $979,689,569

  Grants paid

  $96,369,962

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

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,312,108,803

  Expenses

  $1,004,881,237

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,016,820,143

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,290,130,840

  Expenses

  $908,626,330

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,800,375,381

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,290,130,840

  Expenses

  $908,626,330

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,800,375,381

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,137,390,674

  Expenses

  $907,041,369

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,975,541,090

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

• BLUE INVESTMENTS FOR NATURE INC

  $8,005,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• SPRUCE ROOT INC

  $8,000,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• GREAT OUTDOORS COLORADO

  $3,667,701

  2022 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE

  $2,500,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION

  $2,125,552

  2024 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• THE CONSERVATION FUND

  $1,921,184

  2024 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• RAINFOREST TRUST INC

  $1,764,836

  2022 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION

  $1,545,910

  2023 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• MONGOLIAN NATURES LEGACY FOUNDATION

  $1,543,113

  2024 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• POLK COUNTY

  $1,500,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION

  $46,117,979

  2024 · PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $35,693,249

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $24,160,857

  2024 · COASTAL HABITATS / GREATER SAGE GROUSE CONS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $23,375,396

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $21,503,809

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $15,696,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• ANNE RAY FOUNDATION

  $15,000,000

  2023 · ENDURING EARTH: EXPONENTIAL IMPACT FOR PEOPLE AND THE PLANET

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $12,352,213

  2022 · OYSTER RESTORATION

• GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION

  $12,102,451

  2023 · PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $11,254,978

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

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.

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.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

  $5,068,460 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $832,735 to charity

• 3 SIXTY FUNDRAISING LLC

  $3,305,642 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $1,498,232 to charity

• 3 SIXTY FUNDRAISING LLC

  $3,120,758 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$2,083,341 to charity

• CAUSEWORX INC.

  $2,136,651 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $1,396,033 to charity

• GENUINE ENGAGEMENT FUNDRAISING LLC

  $956,930 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$354,190 to charity

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $878 raised

  2024 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $563 to charity

• NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

  $3,744,782 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$664,732 to charity

• PERSONAL FUNDRAISING SERVICES LLC

  $3,500,239 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$5,085,202 to charity

• CAUSEWORX INC.

  $1,703,478 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $1,105,576 to charity

• ASCENTA GROUP INC.

  $699,396 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$75,547 to charity

• GENUINE ENGAGEMENT FUNDRAISING LLC

  $143,694 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$2,001,096 to charity

• INFOCISION INC.

  $3,111 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$4,454 to charity

• 3 SIXTY FUNDRAISING LLC

  $0 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$470,250 to charity

• CAUSEWORX INC.

  $1,075,562 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $591,031 to charity

• INFOCISION INC.

  $10,099 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $2,678 to charity

• NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

  $2,014,345 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $573,254 to charity

• ASCENTA GROUP INC.

  $951,968 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $415,730 to charity

• ASCENTA GROUP INC.

  $950,034 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $206,718 to charity

• CAUSEWORX INC.

  $812,091 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $393,867 to charity

• 3 SIXTY FUNDRAISING LLC

  $772,255 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$172,782 to charity

• NEW CANVASSING EXPERIENCE INC.

  $2,261,653 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $1,814,984 to charity

• 3 SIXTY FUNDRAISING LLC

  $660,049 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $140,318 to charity

• NORDSTROM INC.

  $421,000 in sales

  2020 · Commercial Coventurer

  $5,000 to charity

• DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

  $373,863 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $302,605 to charity

• CAUSEWORX INC.

  $200,082 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$55,447 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Showing the 25 most recent. The rest are on the API.

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