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CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS

EIN 84-3247477 SPOKANE, WA

Revenue 2024
$629,362
Expenses 2024
$389,857

Program services were 92.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
2000
Street
1320 N HOLLIS ST

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, (THE ORGANIZATION) IS COMMITTED TO FACILITATING A GLOBAL CONVERSATION ABOUT DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS. TO ATTAIN ITS GOALS, THE ORGANIZATION WORKS TO EDUCATE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS ABOUT THE FAILURE OF EXISTING GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS TO RECOGNIZE AND ENFORCE ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, AND PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO THEM TO FASHION NEW LAWS AND NEW LEGAL SYSTEMS, WHICH CREATE AND ENFORCE ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS. THE ORGANIZATION THEN ASSISTS THEM TO ENFORCE AND DEFEND THOSE LAWS.

  • I.During Program Year 2024, CDER provided assistance to organizations, governments, tribal members, and tribal governments in Oklahoma, California, New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Washington, Minnesota, Colorado, and other states, to educate those governments, individuals, and groups about a new system of environmental law focused on recognizing the legally enforceable rights of ecosystems and nature. II.During Program Year 2024, CDER provided educational trainings and strategic organizational assistance to organizations in Ireland, Ecuador, Australia, Nepal, England, Northern Ireland, Costa Rica, and other countries. Assistance and support to those organizations included educational webinars and strategic assistance for the drafting of laws which would recognize the legally enforceable rights of nature and ecosystems.III.During Program Year 2024, CDER partnered with several organizations to create an organization focused on creating new land ownership options which would recognize nature and ecosystems as rights-bearing entities. CDER worked in Colorado on a pilot project to transfer the title of a parcel of land to the ecosystems that exist on that land.IV.During Program Year 2024, CDER partnered with a national organization to create a new software application that can be used by municipal and tribal organizers to identify the most appropriate places to adopt laws recognizing the legally enforceable rights of nature and ecosystems. In 2024, that included finalizing the mapping for river and other ecosystems in Virginia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, and Wisconsin.

    Expenses $361,844

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.

  • Thomas Linzey

    President

    Total calculated
    $105,000
    From this org
    $105,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55

  • Mari Margil

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $105,000
    From this org
    $105,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55

  • Edward Wells

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $629,362
    Expenses
    $389,857
    Contributions
    $558,957
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $503,478
    Expenses
    $369,358
    Contributions
    $503,478
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $505,578
    Expenses
    $360,452
    Contributions
    $505,578
    Grants paid
    $6,087

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
    $833,189
    Expenses
    $301,237
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,355,869

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $823,100
    Expenses
    $231,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $823,798

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,150
    Expenses
    $21,947
    Assets (EOY)
    $240,925

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.