APPLIED ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C30

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 345

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

• APPLIED ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (AEI) WAS ESTABLISHED TO INNOVATE ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS AND APPROACHES TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS ON THE PLANET. THESE INCLUDE ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES WITH CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER AVAILABILITY, FOOD QUALITY AND NUTRITIONAL DENSITY, BIODIVERSITY DECLINE, AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO NATURAL RESOURCES FOR A VARIETY OF USES ALONG WITH THE RESTORATION OF ECOSYSTEM AND WILDLIFE HABITAT. THIS WORK IS ENTIRELY FOCUSED ON CREATING PUBLIC BENEFITS BY HELPING LAND USE CHANGE AGENTS MAKE BETTER DECISIONS BY LETTING NATURE AND ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION PRINCIPLES GUIDE THEIR DECISION. IN 2024, THE ORGANIZATION ENGAGED IN TWO LONG-TERM RESEARCH PROJECTS: 1) REVIVE & RESTORE - RESEARCH OF EXCESSIVE DISTURBANCE OF FORESTLAND HISOTRICALLY BY PASSENGER PIGEON MEGA-FLOCKS AND WORK ON BIODIVERSITY OF BIRDS AND NATIVE SPECIES AROUND ADAPTIVE MULTI-PADDOCK GRAZING METHODS. 2) NATURE'S REGISTRY - THE TRACKING AND CREDITING OF CARBON CREDITS FOR THE VOLUNTARY CARBON MARKET.

  Expenses $201,189 · Revenue $354,943

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

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

  $359,901

  Expenses

  $262,086

  Contributions

  $4,958

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $615,792

  Expenses

  $786,181

  Contributions

  $1,500

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $493,008

  Expenses

  $1,062,902

  Contributions

  $2,441

  Grants paid

  $0

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

  $4,866,266

  Expenses

  $65,533

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,379,599

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 2020

Tax period

1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020

Principal officer

Show names as filed Steven ApfelbaumSTEVEN APFELBAUM

Mailing address

201 W MONTECITO STSANTA BARBARA CA 93101

Website

Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

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

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

• REVIVE & RESTORE

  $329,548

  2024 · MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR TWO DIFFERENT SCOPES OF WORK FOR THE PASSENGER PIGEON PROJECT

• REVIVE & RESTORE

  $79,825

  2025 · MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT FROM BIOTECH FOR BIRD PROGRAM FOR NEW SCOPE OF WORK FOR THE PASSENGER PIGEON PROJECT

Other IRS files