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CONSERVATION SCIENCE PARTNERS INC

EIN 45-2504981 TRUCKEE, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,646,272
Expenses 2024
$2,638,119

Program services were 62.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U50
Classification
8000
Street
11050 PIONEER TRL STE 202

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

Mission

To apply human ingenuity to the preservation of nature using science, technology, and lasting partnerships with conservation practitioners.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To use science, technology, and lasting partnerships to help solve conservation problems.

  • Conservation Science Partners (CSP) is a nonprofit established to meet the research and technical needs of diverse clients and stakeholders in conservation projects around the world. Our mission is to apply human ingenuity to the preservation of nature using science, technology, and lasting partnerships with conservation practitioners. Our scientific capabilities help society to rigorously address the critical problems facing the natural environment on public and private lands. Drawing from the realms of the environmental, social, and computer sciences, our projects result in durable, defensible, academic-grade science designed to guide nonpartisan and independent decision-making.(Continued on Schedule O)To achieve and increase our impact over the last year, we: 1) engaged non-governmental organizations, foundations, agencies, socially progressive companies, and other sectors of society in a diversity of opportunities and in the user-centered design of our work; 2) carefully used cutting-edge scientific tools and technology to prototype and deliver high-quality work products in a professional, reproducible, timely, and cost-effective manner' 3) drew on a network of professionals from a wide range of disciplines, enhancing staff capacity in the rapid deployment and scaling of innovative solutions; 4) connected with the best minds in conservation science to solve problems in a way that's comprehensive, flexible, and service-oriented; and 5) helped foster the next generation of conservation scientists, practitioners, and leaders through mentorship, inclusion, and respect.Much of the work at CSP is housed among five 'labs.' Our staff work within and across labs to ensure project teams and outcomes are optimized. Our Analytics Lab enhances the way conservation science works and broadens our reach through advancements in technology. Our Changing Landscapes Lab advances conservation and climate adaptation science and planning by accounting for the interacting trajectories of global changes in climates, land use, and biodiversity in socio-ecological systems. Our Threatened and Endangered Species Lab develops and drives the science, research outcomes, and partnerships that accelerate threatened and endangered species conservation and recovery efforts. Our Freshwater Solutions Lab advances freshwater conservation science by providing improved analytical methods and datasets to inform environmental management and policy solutions to the major challenges facing the sustainability of fresh waters. Our Innovation Lab incubates new approaches to solving conservation problems that integrate human ingenuity and the creativity of nature.

    Expenses $1,638,886 · Grants $53,434 · Revenue $1,129,179

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.

  • Brett Dickson

    President, CEO, Chief Scientist

    Total calculated
    $212,141
    From this org
    $205,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,179
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,962
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,179
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $212,141

  • Maureen McCarthy

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rick Hopkins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Alma Cardenas

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • David Haygood

    Board Member (until 08/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sue Meyer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Hayley Adamski

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $147,785
    From this org
    $129,869
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,916
    Hours/week
    40

  • Caitlin Littlefield

    Senior Scientist

    Total calculated
    $114,845
    From this org
    $111,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,345
    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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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
    $2,646,272
    Expenses
    $2,638,119
    Contributions
    $1,491,878
    Grants paid
    $53,434
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,968,493
    Expenses
    $2,917,783
    Contributions
    $240,554
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,414,236
    Expenses
    $2,162,136
    Contributions
    $402,258
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,514,124
    Expenses
    $2,248,551
    Contributions
    $426,565
    Grants paid
    $5,000

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
    $2,300,579
    Expenses
    $2,276,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,594,912

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,551,777
    Expenses
    $1,524,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,258,683

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,518,362
    Expenses
    $1,519,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $878,899

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,696,227
    Expenses
    $1,739,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $813,032

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,571,501
    Expenses
    $1,533,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $908,274

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,687,531
    Expenses
    $1,533,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $834,289

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,687,531
    Expenses
    $1,533,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $834,289

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,536,460
    Expenses
    $1,511,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $645,700

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,506,363
    Expenses
    $1,438,543
    Assets (EOY)
    $621,892

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,155,248
    Expenses
    $1,098,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $550,853

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

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.