INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C053

Classification

2000

Street

4950 SW HOUT ST

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Mission and programs · 2024

• CONSERVATION RESEARCH: OUR EFFORTS TO RESEARCH, MONITOR AND REINTRODUCE ENDANGERED SPECIES INTO RESTORED HABITATS IN WESTERN OREGON HAS MANY SUCCESSES. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED NEW POPULATIONS OF GOLDEN PAINTBRUSH, KINCAID'S LUPINE, NELSON'S CHECKERMALLOW, BRADSHAW'S LOMATIUM, COOK'S DESERT PARSLEY, COLUMBIA YELLOWCRESS AND WILLAMETTE DAISY. ALL OF THESE SPECIES WERE ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION, BUT DUE TO OUR EFFORTS AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, ARE NOW BECOMING MORE COMMON ON THE LANDSCAPE. THEY ALSO NOW GROW IN PLACES WHERE LOCAL PEOPLE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES CAN SEE AND INTERACT WITH THEM REGULARLY, A SEA CHANGE FOR CONSERVATION! (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENT NUMBERS: FOR THE NINTH YEAR, COORDINATED RANGE-WIDE MONITORING FOR FENDER'S BLUE BUTTERFLY, WITH SURVEYS AT 71 SITES, TRACKING IMPORTANT TRENDS IN THIS ENDANGERED SPECIES POPULATION. THIRTY-FOUR RESEARCH PROJECTS AT OVER 123 SITES WITH 18 FEDERALLY AND STATE LISTED ENDANGERED/THREATENED/SPECIES OF CONCERN SPECIES IN THE NW. IN THE SW 12 RARE PLANT SPECIES WERE MONITORED IN 115 PLOTS AND POLLINATOR COMMUNTIES WERE MONITORED ACROSS 5 SITES PRE- AND POST-RESTORATION. SEEDS WERE COLLECTED FROM 4 RARE PLANT SPECIES IN NEW MEXICO FOR LONG-TERM SEED BANKING AND 246 CUTTINGS WERE COLLECTED FROM A RARE WILLOW SPECIES IN THE SW. CONTINUED ESTUARY MAPPING WORK AND PROVIDED TECHNICAL INPUTS ON BLUE CARBON PROJECTS, WITH ESTUARY RESEARCH PROJECTS UNDERWAY.

  Expenses $638,817

• HABITAT RESTORATION: FOR OVER 20 YEARS, IAE'S MISSION HAS INCLUDED RESTORING RESILIENT ECOSYSTEMS. WE'VE LEARNED THAT TO INCREASE HABITAT RESTORATION IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY, NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA, AN INCREASE IN THE AVAILABILITY OF NATIVE SEEDS AND PLANTS IS NEEDED. WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED MUCH BY SUPPORTING FOUR REGIONAL SEED PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVELOPING A NATIVE PLANT FARM. THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY NATIVE PLANT PARTNERSHIP (WVNPP), STAFFED BY IAE AND FUNDED IN PART BY THE OREGON WATERSHED ENHANCEMENT BOARD, HAS OVER 30 PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AS MEMBERS, INCLUDING WATERSHED COUNCILS, SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATIONS DISTRICTS, LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES, PRIVATE LAND TRUSTS, COMMERCIAL GROWERS, AND STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENT NUMBERS:73 SITES IN RESTORATION IN OREGON, 1481 ACRES IN RESTORED OR IN ACTIVE RESTORATION2.7 ACRES IN SEED PRODUCTION AT IAE FARM, WITH 46 SPECIES IN PRODUCTION AT THE IAE FARM; 33 FIELDS WITH 23 SPECIES YIELDING 4,259 POUNDS OF SEED IN THE SW365 POUNDS OF SEED PRODUCED AT IAE FARMWILD SEED COLLECTED FROM 53 SPECIES IN OREGON, 104 SPECIES AND 276 SEED COLLECTIONS IN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO1913 POUNDS OF NATIVE SEED SOWN85000 NATIVE PLANT PLUGS AND BULBS OUT-PLANTED8 TYPES OF OREGON HABITATS WHERE RESTORATION ACTIONS OCCURRED: COASTAL PRAIRIE, DOUGLAS-FIR/WESTERN HEMLOCK/SITKA SPRUCE FOREST, COASTAL DUNES, OAK SAVANNAH/WOODLAND, RIPARIAN, UPLAND PRAIRIE, WET PRAIRIE, WETLAND. IN NM & AZ 3 HABITATS WITH RESTORATION, MONTANE WETLAND, SUBALPINE AND PONDEROSA PINE.9,471 VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY HOURS LOGGEDHOSTED VIRTUAL NATIONAL NATIVE SEED CONFERENCE ATTENDED BY OVER 900 NATIVE PLANT ENTHUSIASTS

  Expenses $1,115,526 · Revenue $124,633

• ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION: THE DECLINE IN HUMAN CONNECTION WITH NATURE IS FOUND ESPECIALLY IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES WITHIN OUR REGION, INCLUDING INCARCERATED PEOPLE WHO NUMBER OVER 15,000 IN OREGON AND 2.3 MILLION NATIONWIDE. THIS NATURE DEFICIT LEADS TO LOWER HUMAN HEALTH, HIGHER INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE, AND REDUCED SENSE OF WELL-BEING. FURTHERMORE, THERE IS OFTEN A DISCONNECT BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS AND THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE IN THE REGION WHERE RESTORATIONS TAKE PLACE. THIS ISOLATION EXCLUDES VALUABLE INSIGHTS FROM PROJECTS AND REDUCES OWNERSHIP OF HABITAT RESTORATIONS BY DIVERSE COMMUNITIES. INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES OF DIVERSITY ARE PARTICULARLY DEPRIVED OF OPPORTUNITIES TO INTERACT WITH ECOSYSTEMS AS WELL AS IN ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)ONE PROJECT OF OUR ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM, SAGEBRUSH IN PRISONS, DEEPLY ENGAGES PRISON INMATES IN HABITAT CONSERVATION BY GIVING THEM VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN NATIVE PLANT NURSERY MANAGEMENT AND A LECTURE SERIES IN CONSERVATION SCIENCE. THESE INCARCERATED ADULTS ARE HEALING THEIR ENVIRONMENT, THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND THEMSELVES.PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENT NUMBERS:OVER 300,000 SAGEBRUSH AND OTHER NATIVE PLANTS GROWN BY ADULTS IN CUSTODY IN 11 PRISONS IN FIVE STATES TO RESTORE GREATER SAGE-GROUSE HABITAT IMPACTED BY FIRE OR OTHER NATIVE HABITATS. ADULTS IN CUSTODY CONTRIBUTED OVER 33,000 HOURS TOWARDS CONSERVATION OF SAGEBRUSH AND OTHER NATIVE HABITATS.PROVIDED PLACE-BASED SUMMER EDUCATION AND FOREST IMMERSION PROGRAMS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO.OVER 1000 ADULTS IN CUSTODY ENGAGED IN ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION WITH 117 LESSONS.405 YOUTH IN JUVENILE DETENTION ATTENDED 56 LESSONS PROVIDED IN 2 FACILITIES.

  Expenses $657,282

• THE INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY (IAE) IS A NON-PROFIT 501 (C) (3) ORGANIZATION WHOSE VISION IS A WORLD WHERE ALL PEOPLE AND WILDLANDS ARE HEALTHY AND INTERACT POSITIVELY, BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSITY FLOURISHES, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES ARE MET WITH A SOCIAL COMMITMENT TO SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH SCIENCE. OUR MISSION IS CONSERVING NATIVE SPECIES AND HABITATS THROUGH RESTORATION, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. WE PARTNER WITH AND SERVE A DIVERSITY OF GROUPS ACROSS OREGON AND THE WESTERN US, INCLUDING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES, CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS AND NONPROFITS, PRISONS, JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITIES, K-12 SCHOOLS, ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS, TRIBES, AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS. OUR PROJECTS WORK ACROSS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, WITH OUR MAIN OFFICE IN OREGON AND AN OFFICE IN NEW MEXICO. OUR STRATEGIC PLAN LAYS OUT THREE PROGRAMMING GOALS: RESTORING RESILIENT ECOSYSTEMS, CONSERVING SPECIES, AND CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH NATURE. WE PRESENT AN ACCOMPLISHMENT FROM EACH IN THE SECTIONS ABOVE.

  Expenses $2,859,664

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $6,367,319

  Expenses

  $6,662,277

  Contributions

  $6,157,073

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,684,486

  Expenses

  $6,253,007

  Contributions

  $6,297,348

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,923,662

  Expenses

  $4,589,213

  Contributions

  $4,757,567

  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

  $4,624,176

  Expenses

  $4,210,052

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,326,897

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,688,619

  Expenses

  $3,360,801

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,479,105

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,763,738

  Expenses

  $3,502,092

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,315,000

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,935,305

  Expenses

  $2,771,732

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,905,723

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,508,949

  Expenses

  $2,974,694

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,784,209

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,363,857

  Expenses

  $2,333,702

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,221,925

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,035,162

  Expenses

  $1,804,657

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,033,856

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.

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

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $63,797

  2023 · TO SUPPORT ENGAGING EARLY CAREER BIOLOGISTS IN CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE.

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $52,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE ENGAGING EARLY CAREER BIOLOGISTS IN CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE PROJECT.

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $33,966

  2022 · TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE & NEXT GENERATION - SUSAN M. WATERS, QUAMASH ECORESEARCH

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $31,898

  2022 · TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR ENGAGING EARLY CAREER BIOLOGISTS IN CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $31,898

  2022 · TO SUPPORT ENGAGING EARLY CAREER BIOLOGISTS IN CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE

• PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS

  $25,000

  2023 · Policy

• CENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION INC

  $24,550

  2022 · NATIONAL COLLECTION PAYOUTS AND PARTICIPATING INSTITUTION WORK FOR SEED COLLECTING

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $18,710

  2022 · TO SUPPORT ITALIAN ARUM WORK

• NATURE CONSERVANCY

  $17,500

  2022 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $15,194

  2023 · ITALIAN ARUM PROPOSAL JANUARY 2022.

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

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