SAVE CALIFORNIA SALMON

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C30

Classification

1000

Street

37737 STATE HIGHWAY 96

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

• 2024 has been a year of progress celebration and partnership for Save California Salmon. We are inspired by the support and dedication of our communities and partners and together weve made great strides in the fight for healthier rivers and lands and more empowered communities. Our work on the Klamath River reached new heights with dam removal and flow and restoration projects that benefit salmon and communities taking center stage. These efforts have been successful. All four of the lower Klamath River dams have been removed and there is a growing commitment to ensuring fish passage and restoration in the upper Klamath are effective. To realize the vision of a restored Klamath River and community we continued a concerted push for permanent instream flow protections for the Scott and Shasta Rivers and more water from the federal water projects that impact the Klamath and Trinity Rivers. Were also proud to be part of the movement to dismantle outdated dams on the Eel River and fight for water justice 2 through strategic litigation and policy advocacy. We have increased our efforts to restore flows and remove dams in the Sacramento Rivers key salmon tributaries such as Battle Deer Butte Mill and Antelope Creeks. We are also supporting efforts to bring the salmon home above the Oroville and Shasta dams the states largest dams. We intensified our efforts to restore the Bay Delta San Francisco Bay the states largest estuary which faces severe challenges from over-allocated water use and excessive pollution. As part of this work we organized rallies panels and letter-writing campaigns advocating for science-based flow decisions over toothless Voluntary Agreements in the California Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan Updates and the Biological Opinions for endangered species affected by the Central Valley Project. We also took a leading role in opposing the Sites Reservoir water rights application and joined efforts to challenge the Delta Tunnels Change of Diversion water rights. Notably the Sites Reservoir water rights proceeding marks the first major case where Tribes have intervened bringing both traditional knowledge and Tribal water rights expertise to a semi-judicial hearing. We are proud to stand against Californias first proposed reservoir in over 50 years. Centuries of harmful extraction including dam building and water projects have displaced both Native people and salmon and stopped people from practicing indigenous sciences such as cultural burning and river management. This is why we are committed to supporting land return as a means to achieving justice for Native people in California and meeting climate and restoration goals. 2024 was a huge year for public and private land return and co-management in California. We are proud to support these efforts and to have published the first California LandBack Special Report highlighting these efforts and policy recommendations. Our education programs have also expanded with significantly increased capacity for providing Native youth with culturally relevant resources and experiences. We hosted our Indigenous Science Camps for the third year in a row and expanded camps into new regions including the former dam reach of the Klamath River. We launched new curriculum lessons and provided field trips and outdoor activities for students to engage with Traditional Ecological Knowledge TEK and dam removal firsthand. We also hosted family-centered water protection and educational events along with fun family days across the Klamath Trinity Eel and Sacramento River watersheds. These one-day river events and camps included many raft and canoe trips cultural and educational workshops and a Trinity River clean-up! Our continued commitment to amplifying Native voices also led to more educational events celebrating Native culture and history several art contests and in-school lessons and the publication of new youth activity books. We also greatly expanded our staff office space and programming in 2024. We now have staff and or offices in Sacramento the Northern Central Valley the Klamath River and the 3 North Coast. We hope we can better serve and uplift our communities efforts now that we have more resources. We are currently gathering feedback on our education and youth initiatives while hosting events that celebrate our successes and engage communities in providing input. Please follow our website and social media or check out our newsletter for more information on how to engage.

  Expenses $796,324

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

  $1,098,190

  Expenses

  $998,919

  Contributions

  $1,098,190

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,009,826

  Expenses

  $335,264

  Contributions

  $1,009,826

  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.

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

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $120,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING

• BATTERY FOUNDATION

  $100,610

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $100,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $90,000

  2023 · General operating support and project support

• WATER FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $45,000

  2024 · General operating support

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $30,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• PARKS CALIFORNIA

  $30,000

  2023 · 2023 ADVENTURE PASS GRANT

• HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION

  $16,500

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

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

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