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WILDLIFE FOREVER

EIN 36-3566121 SAINT PAUL, MN

Revenue 2025
$1,813,535
Expenses 2025
$1,969,159

Program services were 94.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D300
Classification
1000
Street
5350 HIGHWAY 61 N STE 7

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 · 2025

Mission

TO CONSERVE AMERICA'S WILDLIFE HERITAGE THROUGH CONSERVATION EDUCATION, PRESERVATION OF HABITAT, AND MANAGEMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE.

  • WILDLIFE FOREVER'S CLEAN DRAIN DRY INITIATIVE IS A NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGN EDUCATING BOATERS, ANGLERS, AND OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS WITH BEST PRACTICES FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. THROUGH A VAST NETWORK OF PARTNERS INCLUDING LAKE ASSOCIATIONS, UNIVERSITIES, LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL AGENCIES, THE FISHING AND BOATING INDUSTRY, AND OTHER CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS, THE AWARD-WINNING PROGRAM REACHES MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR THROUGH INNOVATIVE MEDIA AND MARKETING OUTREACH, EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS, AND PUBLIC ACCESS WATERCRAFT CLEANING EQUIPMENT.

    Expenses $658,071 · Revenue $175,465

  • WILDLIFE FOREVER'S HABITAT DIVISION CALLED, PRAIRIE CITY USA, WORKS WITH MUNICIPALITIES AND PUBLIC LAND MANAGERS TO RESTORE AND ENHANCE WILDLIFE HABITAT. THROUGH INVASIVE SPECIES REMOVAL AND PRAIRIE RESTORATION ACTIVITIES, POLLINATORS BENEFIT, ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS ARE RESTORED, AND WATER QUALITY IMPROVES FOR GREATER COMMUNITY HEALTH.

    Expenses $409,516

  • THE ART OF CONSERVATION CONTEST SERIES FEATURES THE FISH AND SONGBIRD ART PROGRAMS. AS AN AWARD-WINNING PROGRAM TO ENGAGE YOUTH INTO THE OUTDOORS, IT SERVES AS A GATEWAY TO CONNECT YOUTH TO SCIENCE, NATURE, AND OUTDOOR RECREATION. AS A FREE PROGRAM, STUDENTS, EDUCATORS, AND PARENTS CAN UTILIZE ONLINE LESSON PLANS THAT FEATURE A VARIETY OF CONSERVATION THEMED ACTIVITIES DESIGNED FOR CLASSROOM OR HOME USE.

    Expenses $188,388

  • GETTING FAMILIES FISHING & BOATING INITIATIVE IS WILDLIFE FOREVER'S NEWEST PROGRAM THAT SERVES AS A CONDUIT TO SUPPORT VOLUNTEER LED COMMUNITY EVENTS AND FAMILY FRIENDLY FISHING CLINICS. GRANTS OF FREE FISHING EQUIPMENT AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION PROGRAM MATERIALS ARE OFFERED TO QUALIFYING INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT AND PROMOTE FISHING, BOATING, AND OUTDOOR RECREATION TO THE PUBLIC.

    Expenses $604,871

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.

  • PAT CONZEMIUS

    PRESIDENT &

    Total calculated
    $145,241
    From this org
    $140,953
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,288
    Hours/week
    40

  • BENJAMIN MCANINCH

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CRAIG DOW

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MICHAEL CASSIDY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GREGG PATTERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ANDY SCHULZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVE WASHBURN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RAY GAMRADT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVE HU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • TIM LAWSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PAT NEU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SAM CALABRO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KYLE WILLEMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,813,535
    Expenses
    $1,969,159
    Contributions
    $1,637,102
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,578,888
    Expenses
    $1,359,907
    Contributions
    $1,407,837
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,614,988
    Expenses
    $1,531,239
    Contributions
    $1,409,589
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,641,748
    Expenses
    $1,584,606
    Contributions
    $1,457,493
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,800,608
    Expenses
    $1,698,416
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,370

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,487,306
    Expenses
    $1,457,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $243,652

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,381,929
    Expenses
    $1,416,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,469

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,370,348
    Expenses
    $1,295,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,069

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,613,746
    Expenses
    $1,604,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,657

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,383,153
    Expenses
    $1,433,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,032

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,436,941
    Expenses
    $1,497,861
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,228

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,854,037
    Expenses
    $1,812,504
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,907

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,888,640
    Expenses
    $1,846,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $206,418

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,599,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,505

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.