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PROGRAM FOR PRESERVING THE NATURAL WORLD INC

EIN 46-1864221 BOSTON, MA

Revenue 2024
$128,500
Expenses 2024
$100,217

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D99
Classification
2800
Street
30 IPSWICH ST APT 211

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

Primary exempt purpose

TO PROMOTE GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW HUMAN BEINGS ARE ULTIMATELY AND TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON THE NATURAL WORLD, SO THAT POLICY-MAKERS AND THE PUBLIC RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO PRESERVE IT.

  • CLIMATE CHANGE - WORKING TO DEVELOP A GLOBAL MEDICAL INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE.

    Expenses $33,406

  • TOXIC CHEMICALS AND FOOD PRODUCTION - WORKING TO EXPOSE THE SIGNIGICANT ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARDS OF NEW CLASS OF PESITICIDES CALL NEONICOTINOIDS, THAT ARE WIDELY USED IN GROWING GENETICALLY-MODIFIED FOODS, AND ARE STRONGLY LINKED TO BEE COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER AND TO THREATS TO OTHER ORGANISMS.

    Expenses $33,406

  • PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - BRINGING THE BEST OF THE BEST SCIENCE TO THE DEBATE ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF CLEAR-CUTTING PATCHES OF WATERSHED FOREST IN MASSACHUSETTS AND OTHER STATES.

    Expenses $33,405

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.

  • ERIC CHIVIAN

    PRESIDENT/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $83,330
    Compensation
    $83,330
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • TRACY SACHS

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $8,330
    Compensation
    $8,330
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $128,500
    Expenses
    $100,217
    Contributions
    $128,500
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $102,500
    Expenses
    $96,496
    Contributions
    $102,500
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $105,082
    Expenses
    $112,733
    Contributions
    $105,000
    Grants paid
    not reported

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
    $79,694
    Expenses
    $93,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,335

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $138,777
    Expenses
    $85,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,277

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $138,391
    Expenses
    $96,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,262

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $97,350
    Expenses
    $99,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,184

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $80,102
    Expenses
    $130,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,620

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $152,950
    Expenses
    $131,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,729

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $157,215
    Expenses
    $128,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,680

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $111,908
    Expenses
    $134,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,015

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

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.