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ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND

EIN 90-0080500 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$24,647,599
Expenses 2024
$25,215,948

Program services were 92.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
C30
Classification
3000
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

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • BECKY EDWARDS

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 2/4/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARL FERENBACH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • CHARLES J HAMILTON JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • CHRISSY ARMSTRONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CLARA PRATTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • CODDY JOHNSON

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FRANK LOY

    CHAIR EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • JEFFREY P WILLIAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • JOANNE WITTY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN C KERR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN SALL

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 10/8/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JON POWERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN JOHNSON

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • KIRSTEN J FELDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • LISE STRICKLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • MARY POWELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • NEAL KEMKAR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICHARD H DAVIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN FORD DORSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • SUSAN MANDEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • THAIS LOPEZ VOGEL ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THE HONORABLE THOMAS H KEAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • THOMAS F DARDEN II

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID KIEVE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $289,801
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $243,957
    Other
    $45,844
    Hours/week
    36 + 4 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $239,957 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $4,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $20,802 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $25,042 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $289,801 related

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. 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
    $24,647,599
    Expenses
    $25,215,948
    Contributions
    $24,178,378
    Grants paid
    $9,514,294
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $32,711,189
    Expenses
    $27,019,957
    Contributions
    $32,398,345
    Grants paid
    $5,499,995
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,958,140
    Expenses
    $18,745,301
    Contributions
    $19,821,920
    Grants paid
    $750,108

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.

  • GORDON & SCHWENKMEYER INC.

    $13,172 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$7,719 to charity

  • GORDON & SCHWENKMEYER INC.

    $15,264 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $4,080 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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.