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THE WILDERNESS PROJECT FOUNDATION

EIN 83-1279703 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$5,747,870
Expenses 2025
$5,597,813

Program services were 90.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D32
Classification
1000
Street
1050 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 500

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

THE PURPOSE OF THE WILDERNESS PROJECT FOUNDATION IS TO PROTECT 1.2 MILLION SQ. KM OF IRREPLACEABLE AFRICAN WATERSHEDS, PLATEAUS, AND WATER TOWERS BY 2030.

Activities or mission (Part I)

OUR MISSION IS TO PROTECT 1.2 MILLION SQ. KM OF IRREPLACEABLE AFRICAN WATERSHEDS, PLATEAUS, AND WATER TOWERS BY 2030.

  • GREAT SPINE OF AFRICA EXPEDITIONS - THE GREAT SPINE OF AFRICA SERIES OF EXPEDITIONS REPRESENTS THE LARGEST NON-MILITARY EXPEDITIONARY MOBILIZATION IN AFRICA'S HISTORY, TRAVERSING 27 COUNTRIES AND AIMING TO COMPLETE 200 RIVER EXPEDITIONS BY 2030. LOCAL COMMUNITIES LIVING TRADITIONALLY AROUND THE SOURCES OF AFRICA'S GREAT RIVERS ARE TYPICALLY THE LEAST-SERVED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES. OUR RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS ARE GUIDED BY THESE "RIVER GUARDIANS" AS WE UNDERTAKE SCIENTIFIC SURVEYS USING CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY.

    Expenses $2,667,103

  • HABITAT CONSERVATION - THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES GRANTS TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROMOTE EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRD SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, USING LONG-TERM BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEMS.

    Expenses $2,075,000 · Grants $2,075,000

  • CONSERVATION MEDIA & STORYTELLING - IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AFRISOS, SUPPORTING AND INVESTING IN YOUNG AFRICAN FILMMAKERS TO TELL STORIES OF NATURE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE ALONGSIDE WILD RIVERS.

    Expenses $316,306 · Grants $9,000 · Revenue $92,000

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.

  • David Garrett

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $134,691
    From this org
    $134,691
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Steve Boyes

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • John Hilton

    PRESIDENT AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Steve Bessinger

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Moreangels Mbizah

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shoham Arad

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brooke Runnette

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,747,870
    Expenses
    $5,597,813
    Contributions
    $5,541,949
    Grants paid
    $2,084,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,904,221
    Expenses
    $4,738,478
    Contributions
    $4,717,145
    Grants paid
    $2,508,160
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,802,110
    Expenses
    $4,172,617
    Contributions
    $5,734,114
    Grants paid
    $3,095,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,904,460
    Expenses
    $3,423,231
    Contributions
    $2,895,641
    Grants paid
    $3,152,904

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
    $2,530,463
    Expenses
    $2,119,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,392,319

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,022,844
    Expenses
    $1,412,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $981,730

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $500

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

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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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.