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CALIFORNIA STATE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

EIN 68-0234744 BERKELEY, CA

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Revenue 2024
$4,707,220
Expenses 2024
$5,499,925

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30Z
Classification
1000
Street
201 UNIVERSITY AVE BERTH H-43

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

THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH DIVERSE GROUPS REPRESENTING MANY INTERESTS TO ACQUIRE AND RESTORE CRITICAL WILDLIFE HABITAT AND PROTECTING SPECIES

  • CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION(CWF) SUPPORTS AND ADMINISTERS FUNDS THAT SUPPORT WILDLIFE EDUCATION, HABITAT RESTORATION, AND AQUISITION OF LAND AND WATER RESOURCES. CWF RECEIVES PUBLIC AGENCY AND PRIVATE GRANTS AND GIFTS TO ADMINISTER DESIGNATED CONSERVATION PROJECTS, PARTNERS INCLUDE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AS WELL AS SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION, RESOURCES LEGACY FUND. CWF IS THE FISCAL AGENT FOR CLIMATE SCIENCE ALLIANCE AND RECEIVES SUPPORT FOR THAT PROGRAM FROM MANY SOURCES, INCLUDING THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT AND RESOURCE, UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE, NASA, AND THE STATE COASTAL CONSERVANCY

    Expenses $5,499,925 · Revenue $4,707,220

  • CWF'S OAKS FUND ESTABLISHED AND CONTINUES TO COORDINATE NATIONAL, STATE, REGIONAL AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS TO CONSERVE AND PERPETUATE THE STATE'S PRIMARY OLD GROWTH RESOURCE. CONSERVATION MEMBERS ARE UNITED BY THE VITAL ROLE OF OAKS IN SEQUESTERING CARBON, MAINTAINING HEATLHY WATERSHED, PROVIDING SUSTAINABLE WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND CELEBRATING CULTURAL VALUES. CALIFORNIA OAKS PROVIDES VALUABLE RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TO EDUCATE AND ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN CRITICAL PLANNING PROCESSES, AND PROVIDING OAK INFORMATION TO OPINION LEADERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE ON THE BENEFITS OF CONSERVING CRITICAL OAK RESOURCES.

  • CWF CONTINUES TO ADMINISTER STATE COASTAL CONSERVANCY FUNDS FOR THE GREATER SAN FRANCISCO BAY RESTORATION PROJECTS INCLUDING IMPORTING FREE, TESTED, CLEAN SOIL FOR RESTORING WETLANDS, RAISING LEVEES, AND BUILDING ECOTONE PROJECTS. ITS PARTNERS INCLUDE PACIFIC STATES ENVIROMENTAL INC. AND GRANITE ROCK. THESE LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS ARE THE RESPONSIBLITY OF THE UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE. CWF FEELS GRATEFUL TO BE PART OF THE IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS. FUNDS FOR SKAGGS ISLAND WERE RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED STATES NAVY; ENDOWMENT FUNDS TO BENEFIT ANTIOCH DUNES RESTORATION WERE RECEIVED FROM PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Janet Cobb

    Executive Offr.

    Total calculated
    $193,231
    From this org
    $193,231
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $193,231
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $193,231

  • Ellen Maldonad0

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jim Lightbody

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Lynn Barris

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $4,707,220
    Expenses
    $5,499,925
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,156,778
    Expenses
    $4,082,529
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,490,907
    Expenses
    $3,901,701
    Contributions
    $155
    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
    $3,055,759
    Expenses
    $4,037,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,596,004

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,709,461
    Expenses
    $5,836,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,836,509

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,749,278
    Expenses
    $2,693,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,463,257

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,958,068
    Expenses
    $4,135,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,637,151

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,296,998
    Expenses
    $3,566,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,394,322

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,944,974
    Expenses
    $3,502,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,500,611

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,150,598
    Expenses
    $2,871,430
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,315,288

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,445,651
    Expenses
    $4,096,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,492,167

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 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 SOUNK.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.