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THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE

EIN 36-3942451 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$3,465,450
Expenses 2024
$2,723,493

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C320
Classification
1000
Street
333 N MICHIGAN AVE STE 628

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.

  • CHARLES T PICK

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REBECCAH A SANDERS

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL BOTTS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $182,587
    From this org
    $156,535
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,052
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,535
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,052
    Filer's total
    $182,587

  • LINDA M KURTZ

    SECRETARY & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER B BURKE PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD K CHANDLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE M COVINGTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM F DOOLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WENDY FREYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNE GARDNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BYRON GOULDING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALLEN D GROSBOLL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK D MAFFEI PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROLINE REPENNING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN W ROBINSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVEN M RYAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHINMAY SOMAN PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS F STOTZ PHD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARL R YUDELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL B ZEDDIES JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY SULLIVAN

    SENIOR RESTORATION ECOLOGIST

    Total calculated
    $110,113
    From this org
    $110,113
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JILL KOSTEL

    SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER

    Total calculated
    $108,342
    From this org
    $108,342
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ABIGAIL MATTSON

    DIRECTOR OF DEV. & COMM.

    Total calculated
    $108,089
    From this org
    $108,089
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,465,450
    Expenses
    $2,723,493
    Contributions
    $3,279,517
    Grants paid
    $35,612
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,976,921
    Expenses
    $2,801,091
    Contributions
    $1,854,680
    Grants paid
    $14,034
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,955,328
    Expenses
    $2,791,326
    Contributions
    $4,865,011
    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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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.