SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C00C

Classification

1000

Street

1235 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE 35

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

• Practice - (Community-based Restoration, NPS, MS-CES, BLM, UNCCD, Certification) SER collaborates with the Microsoft Corporation to support their efforts to implement standards-based ecological restoration. Through this collaboration, Microsoft identifies priority locales, and then SER works with existing or new member organizations in those locales to develop and deliver standards-based restoration projects with funding from Microsoft. SER provides training, technical support, and project oversight for the local partners. SER also collects all required reporting and data from the local partners to deliver to Microsoft. As of 2024, SER has managed more than 20 projects in 10 countries in collaboration with Microsoft and local partners.

  Expenses $1,456,674 · Grants $784,960 · Revenue $1,603,000

• Organizational Development-(Membership, Chapters, Sections, Open Doors) With more than 5,000 members in more than 120 countries, SERs global network represents the worlds foremost source of scientific and practical expertise on the repair of degraded ecosystems. SER members include scientists, engineers, planners, program managers, policy makers, landscape architects, artists, economists, volunteers, community advocates, and others. SER members work in all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and represent governmental and nongovernmental organizations, private industry, consultancies, indigenous communities, students and more. Through this collective expertise, SER works to advance the field of ecological restoration by facilitating knowledge development and sharing among practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers. SER helps members and non- members alike share knowledge through trainings and workshops, conferences, publications, on-the-ground demonstration projects, virtual and in-person networking events, an online restoration resource center, and the worlds only Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) program.

  Expenses $457,745 · Grants $93,830 · Revenue $469,563

• Networking-Outreach (World Conferences, NAC, RRC, MadWeek) SER hosts a biennial world conference on ecological restoration, bringing together the worlds leading researchers, practitioners, land managers, and other restoration experts to discuss new and emerging science, practice, and policy issues in restoration. SER2025 will be held in Denver, Colorado.

  Expenses $414,991 · Revenue $139,830

• Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) program: SERs Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) program credentials restoration practitioners and practitioners-in- training who meet core knowledge and practice requirements and maintain those through continuing education. While actual projects are not audited on the ground, applicants are required to submit three sample projects which are reviewed for consistency with SERs International Principles and Standards, and which help certification reviewers

• assess if the applicants are likely to uphold and implement best restoration practices in their projects. To date SER has certified more than 700 practitioners.

  Expenses $462,484 · Revenue $1,136,895

• Publications: Since 1993 SER has published Restoration Ecology, the premier global journal for publishing research in this growing and important field. Restoration Ecology includes a bi-annual thematic series on restoration in arid lands. SER also publishes key guidance documents, such as its International Principles and Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration which are considered the global guide for designing, implementing, and monitoring ecological restoration projects.

• POLICY: SER contributes significantly to national and international policy actions through collaborations with such bodies as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration, and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The SER/IUCN biennial global fora on restoration, for example, are helping define and guide high quality restoration across the world. SER members and board

• members serve on a variety of international advisory committees that also support the implementation and monitoring of ecological restoration. Through SERs Science and Policy Committee, SER chapters and global conferences, SER continues to bring increased attention to the importance of ecological restoration as a tool for addressing some of the worlds most pressing challenges and continues to guide these bodies in incorporating restoration

• as a specific component within their activities and strategic plans. ALL Remaining: The Society for Ecological Restoration co-sponsors conferences, workshops, and other knowledge-sharing and knowledge-development events with its chapters and other like-minded NPOs that provide restorationists with cutting-edge

• research, information, and tools to improve ecological restoration practices

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,454,453

  Expenses

  $2,914,154

  Contributions

  $2,181,599

  Grants paid

  $878,791

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,915,939

  Expenses

  $2,760,164

  Contributions

  $1,541,904

  Grants paid

  $943,148

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,870,830

  Expenses

  $1,560,713

  Contributions

  $993,664

  Grants paid

  $156,875

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

  $1,623,996

  Expenses

  $1,384,338

  Assets (EOY)

  $880,645

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,195,632

  Expenses

  $1,028,859

  Assets (EOY)

  $683,636

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $977,696

  Expenses

  $979,036

  Assets (EOY)

  $474,321

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $970,698

  Expenses

  $973,678

  Assets (EOY)

  $472,871

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $714,055

  Expenses

  $982,783

  Assets (EOY)

  $372,938

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $729,063

  Expenses

  $871,600

  Assets (EOY)

  $669,328

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $508,084

  Expenses

  $728,465

  Assets (EOY)

  $776,180

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $418,250

  Expenses

  $553,094

  Assets (EOY)

  $981,799

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $486,560

  Expenses

  $505,213

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,092,548

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $939,472

  Expenses

  $1,000,229

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,120,445

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

• Drake University

  $80,000

  2024 · Woodland Restoration/Oak Regeneration

• Stream and Wetlands Foundation

  $80,000

  2024 · Swart Prairie Wetland Restoration

• SER-Northwest

  $9,511

  2024 · Partnership Fund and Chapter Grant Recipient

• SER-Midwest Great Lakes Chapter

  $9,272

  2024 · Partnership Fund and Chapter Grant Recipient

• SER-Midwest Great Lakes Chapter

  $5,965

  2022 · Fund Chapter Mission

• SER-Northeast Chapter

  $5,249

  2022 · Support/fund Chapter mission

• SER-Northeast Chapter

  — no cash amount reported

  2023 · 9539

• SER-Mid-Atlantic

  — no cash amount reported

  2023 · 6796.

• SER-Northwest

  — no cash amount reported

  2023 · 5623.

• SER-Midwest Great Lakes Chapter

  — no cash amount reported

  2023 · 6134.

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $1,146,438

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $840,225

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $597,628

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC

  $50,000

  2024 · OUTREACH & EDUCATION

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $0

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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