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ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED

EIN 11-6107128 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$443,267,772
Expenses 2024
$356,751,950

Program services were 88.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C600
Classification
2800
Street
257 PARK AVENUE SOUTH

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).

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.

  • Abby Leigh

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adam Met PhD

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alice Hill

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrea Monge

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bruce V Rauner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carl Ferenbach

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christopher A Cole

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christopher Costello

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Coddy Johnson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David S Vogel

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Tony G Reames

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth McCance

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • G Leonard Baker JR

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Georges C Benjamin MD

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ion Yadigaroglu

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joshua Bekenstein

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katherine Lorenz

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathryn Murdoch

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kenneth Olden PhD

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin Johnson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kristen J Feldman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leslie Dach

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Keith

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lise Strickler

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lynn R Goldman MD MPH

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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 — 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
    $443,267,772
    Expenses
    $356,751,950
    Contributions
    $411,250,696
    Grants paid
    $51,557,871
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $298,689,286
    Expenses
    $295,808,792
    Contributions
    $290,305,830
    Grants paid
    $55,503,531
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $247,057,586
    Expenses
    $326,456,967
    Contributions
    $236,985,475
    Grants paid
    $56,954,735

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $69,137 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $16,820 to charity

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $48,073 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $16,445 to charity

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $90,457 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$4,894 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $0 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $108,288 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$95,846 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $20,575 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $2,358 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $16,072 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$29,968 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $10,191 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$12,310 to charity

  • GORDON & SCHWENKMEYER INC.

    $264,442 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$246,561 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $32,675 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $18,098 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $21,803 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$98,569 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $14,245 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$16,510 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $0 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • GORDON & SCHWENKMEYER INC.

    $335,281 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$314,538 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $74,193 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$14,777 to charity

  • PUBLIC INTEREST COMMUNICATIONS INC.

    $50,805 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $31,739 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $33,681 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $8,083 to charity

  • SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

    $20,941 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$68,125 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.