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RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC

EIN 95-1622945 BROOKLYN, NY

Revenue 2024
$7,797,512
Expenses 2024
$9,819,859

Program services were 80.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C36Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 26908

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.

  • JOHN COPELAND

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRETT ODOM

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNY SPRINGER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TODD CRIDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • S JAMES ANAYA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVEN KEMLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BECKY YANG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINA COC

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUZANNE PELLETIER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $229,178
    From this org
    $190,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,178
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $190,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,178
    Filer's total
    $229,178

  • CHRISTINE HALVORSON

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $266,081
    From this org
    $249,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,696
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,058
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $84,327
    Deferred
    $6,798
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,898
    Filer's total
    $266,081

  • JOSHUA LICHTENSTEIN

    POLICY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $167,907
    From this org
    $139,097
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,810
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,097
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,845
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,965
    Filer's total
    $167,907

  • KIM CHAIX

    DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $170,080
    From this org
    $133,301
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,779
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,301
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,601
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,178
    Filer's total
    $170,080

  • JAMES CAMERON ELLIS

    FIELD SCIENCES DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $152,127
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,127
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $120,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,027
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,100
    Filer's total
    $152,127

  • JULIE HUDSON

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $180,844
    From this org
    $163,958
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,886
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,958
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,988
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,898
    Filer's total
    $180,844

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
    $7,797,512
    Expenses
    $9,819,859
    Contributions
    $7,639,882
    Grants paid
    $2,211,781
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,413,252
    Expenses
    $9,833,586
    Contributions
    $9,246,811
    Grants paid
    $2,947,390
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,163,366
    Expenses
    $8,928,567
    Contributions
    $11,111,171
    Grants paid
    $3,647,180

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

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 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

  • RAINFOREST FOUNDATION US PERU

    SUPPORT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND FOREST COMMUNITIES · PE · controlled entity

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.