PANTHERA CORPORATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D30

Classification

4000

Street

104 WEST 40TH ST 5TH FL MANHATTAN

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Mission and programs · 2025

• LION - PANTHERA COMBINES AN UNDERSTANDING OF LION ECOLOGY IN HUMAN DOMINATED LANDSCAPES WITH TECHNIQUES THAT PROVIDE LOCAL COMMUNITIES WITH THE ABILITY AND INCENTIVE TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH LIONS. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO CURTAIL WIDESPREAD WIRE-SNARE POACHING, WHICH IS PERVASIVE IN MANY KEY LION LANDSCAPES, INCLUDING KAFUE NP (ZAMBIA) AND NIOKOLO-KOBA NP (SENEGAL).

  Expenses $4,283,916 · Grants $318,931

• LEOPARD - PANTHERA CONDUCTS LONG-TERM, CITIZEN-SCIENCE-BASED MONITORING AT FLAGSHIP SITES SUCH AS SOUTH AFRICA'S SABI SANDS GAME RESERVE AND SUPPORTS THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN LEOPARD MONITORING PROGRAM ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA, NAMIBIA, ZAMBIA, AND ZIMBABWE TO GUIDE PATROL EFFORTS AND WILDLIFE CORRIDORS. THROUGH ITS FURS FOR LIFE AND SAVING SPOTS DEMAND-REDUCTION INITIATIVES, PANTHERA HAS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED OVER 18,500 SYNTHETIC LEOPARD FURS FOR USE IN TRADITIONAL CEREMONIES, REDUCING DEMAND FOR AUTHENTIC SKINS AND SAVING COUNTLESS LEOPARDS. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ROYAL COMMISSION FOR ALULA, PANTHERA'S ARABIAN LEOPARD INITIATIVE WORKS TO RESCUE THE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED ARABIAN LEOPARD.

  Expenses $4,162,892 · Grants $3,473

• JAGUAR - PANTHERA UTILIZES A RANGE-WIDE APPROACH FOCUSING ON THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF SPECIES INFLUENCES AND DYNAMICS, INCLUDING PREY, KEY POPULATIONS, THREAT MITIGATION, EDUCATION AND BUILDING GENETIC CORRIDORS IN WHICH JAGUARS CAN MOVE SAFELY. PANTHERA WORKS CLOSELY WITH RANCHERS TO DEVELOP METHODS AND MODELS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT CATTLE RANCHING AND JAGUAR CONSERVATION CAN CO-EXIST, JUST AS THEY WORK WITH ENGINEERS AND DEVELOPERS TO DESIGN ROADS THAT ALLOW FOR EASIER PASSAGE OF JAGUARS AND OTHER WILDLIFE.

  Expenses $2,723,867 · Grants $631,191

• TIGER - PANTHERA, THROUGH VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS, SEEKS TO INCREASE WILD TIGER POPULATIONS BY AT LEAST 50% ACROSS KEY SITES OVER THE NEXT DECADE. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA IDENTIFIES AND CREATES SAFE CORRIDORS FOR THE SPECIES TO MOVE BETWEEN CORE POPULATIONS.PUMA - PANTHERA IS WORKING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND PROTECT PUMAS IN THE WESTERN U.S. (ESPECIALLY THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA IN WASHINGTON STATE) AND IN THE TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK REGION IN THE CHILEAN PATAGONIA. PANTHERA'S WORK INCLUDES UTILIZING INNOVATIVE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY TO OBSERVE THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PUMAS, CHARACTERIZING DISPERSAL DYNAMICS AND IMPEDIMENTS, AND MITIGATING HUMAN-PUMA CONFLICT. A RANGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF PUMAS, FROM PATAGONIA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA IS ALSO UNDERWAY. SMALL CATS - PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO UNDERSTAND AND CONSERVE THE 33 SPECIES OF SMALL WILD CATS. PRIORITIES FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE TO FOCUS ON THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD CATS, TO ENHANCE CURRENT DATA COLLECTION ON BIG CAT STUDY SITES TO GATHER SMALL CAT DATA, AND TO STRATEGICALLY ESTABLISH NEW SITES OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE FOR SMALL CATS. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF PANTHERA'S CROSS-CUTTING PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES:CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGY - PANTHERA DESIGNS AND DEVELOPS TOOLS TO ENHANCE FIELD ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING CUSTOM-BUILT CAMERA TRAPS DEPLOYED GLOBALLY TO SURVEY WILD CAT POPULATIONS, AND PANTHERA IDS, A SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR CURATING AND ARCHIVING CAMERA-TRAP DATA.APPLIED SCIENCE - PANTHERA'S CORE ANALYTICAL EXPERTISE RESIDES WITHIN THE APPLIED SCIENCE PROGRAM, WHICH SUPPORTS FIELD PROJECTS BY APPLYING CUTTING-EDGE METHODS TO RESEARCH DESIGN AND ANALYSIS. KEY ACTIVITIES INCLUDE DEVELOPING NEW TECHNIQUES FOR MONITORING WILD CAT POPULATIONS, IDENTIFYING CRITICAL MOVEMENT CORRIDORS, AND ADVANCING INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO WILD CAT CONSERVATION.IMPACT ASSESSMENT - PANTHERA'S IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROGRAM DRIVES MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION. IT SUPPORTS FIELD PROJECTS TO SET GOALS, TRACK PROGRESS, ASSESS OUTCOMES, AND APPLY LESSONS LEARNED, HELPING TO MEASURE COLLECTIVE IMPACT AND DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONSERVATION STRATEGIES.COUNTER WILDLIFE CRIME - PANTHERA'S COUNTER WILDLIFE CRIME PROGRAM WORKS TO REDUCE THREATS TO WILD CATS BY STRENGTHENING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUSTICE SYSTEMS. IT SUPPORTS INTELLIGENCE-LED OPERATIONS, BUILDS THE CAPACITY OF RANGERS AND ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, AND PROMOTES STRONGER PROSECUTION OF WILDLIFE CRIMES TO CREATE SAFER LANDSCAPES FOR WILD CATS.SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS - PANTHERA PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS TO POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ADVANCED DEGREE PROGRAMS TO WORK ON RESEARCH AND PROJECTS IN THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF LARGE CAT SPECIES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS.

  Expenses $14,140,181 · Grants $860,226

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $91,771,873

  Expenses

  $30,077,735

  Contributions

  $91,551,287

  Grants paid

  $1,813,821

• 2024

  Revenue

  $24,658,202

  Expenses

  $29,672,263

  Contributions

  $24,485,511

  Grants paid

  $2,142,009

• 2023

  Revenue

  $38,271,115

  Expenses

  $29,148,979

  Contributions

  $38,085,942

  Grants paid

  $1,902,126

• 2023

  Revenue

  $38,271,115

  Expenses

  $29,148,979

  Contributions

  $38,085,942

  Grants paid

  $1,902,126

• 2022

  Revenue

  $20,252,691

  Expenses

  $23,974,057

  Contributions

  $20,192,366

  Grants paid

  $1,854,799

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

  $19,509,109

  Expenses

  $19,910,899

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,464,496

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,085,277

  Expenses

  $14,419,536

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,688,506

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

• FISHING CAT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE

  $155,363

  2024 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• FISHING CAT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE

  $150,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• FISHING CAT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE

  $150,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• FISHING CAT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE

  $150,000

  2025 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• QUINAULT INDIAN NATION

  $62,485

  2023 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• NORTHERN ROCKIES CONSERVATION COLLABORATIVE

  $48,000

  2025 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

  $39,559

  2023 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

  $33,507

  2022 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2025 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

• SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

  $25,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION RESEARCH

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATURE CONSERVANCY

  $948,355

  2024 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $884,039

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $842,005

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• RAINFOREST TRUST

  $653,238

  2024 · IN SUPPORT OF CONSERVATION EFFORTS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $486,045

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• RAINFOREST TRUST

  $343,525

  2023 · IN SUPPORT OF CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN MALAYSIA

• WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC

  $339,000

  2023 · GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT

• NATURE CONSERVANCY

  $315,511

  2023 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• RAINFOREST TRUST

  $269,658

  2022 · SUPPORT OF THE SRISAWAT AND KHAO SLOB NON-HUNTING AREAS IN THAILAND, THE OGOOUE-LEKETI NATIONAL PARK IN THE REPUBLIC OF CONGO, AND FOR PROJECT FEASIBILITY STUDIES

• PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS

  $199,500

  2024 · Policy

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.

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