Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2023.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
77 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
8 people listed on the 990; $731K paid to officers and key staff.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 5 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Holmberg | $174,283 | $158,864 | $160,002 | $157,500 |
| Jason Parham | — | $127,669 | $166,022 | $121,490 |
| Jonathan Van Oast | $149,426 | $134,611 | $132,537 | $122,581 |
| Tanya Stere | $149,426 | $140,144 | $138,283 | — |
| Andrew Blout | — | $135,976 | $133,832 | $107,525 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Conserves wildlife through research, technology, and citizen science.
Questions for Wild Me
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Wildbook (WWW.WILDBOOK.ORG) is our flagship project, underlying most of wild me's research and technology efforts. Continuing the development of wildbook as a free and open-source software package for use by the wildlife research community was our largest service program in 2021.
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Flukebook is a global-scake cetacean research platform supporting noaa, boem, and whale and dolphin researchers around the world with free access to cutting-edge machine learning tools to speed and scale photo-identification for population assessments.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2021 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY21 | End FY21 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $685K | $671K |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $23K | $31K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $740K | $701K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $0 | $34K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $740K | $668K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $164K | $128K | $36K | |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $818K | $654K | $164K | |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $35K | $28K | $7K | |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $76K | $76K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $8K | $8K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $423K | $423K | ||
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $2K | $2K | ||
| Office expensesLn 13 | $8K | $8K | ||
| Information technologyLn 14 | $47K | $47K | ||
| OccupancyLn 16 | $10K | $10K | ||
| TravelLn 17 | $2K | $2K | ||
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $700 | $700 | ||
| InterestLn 20 | $4 | $4 | ||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $10K | $8K | $2K | |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $1K | $1K | ||
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $12K | $12K | ||
| All other expensesLn 24e | $140 | $140 | ||
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $375K | $0 |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 Latest | $1.0M | $1.2M | −$211K | $0 | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $1.3M | $1.7M | −$336K | $332K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 Viewing | $1.5M | $1.6M | −$72K | $668K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 | $998K | $1.1M | −$72K | $740K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2021 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $1,545,314 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 3 of 3 board members independent, 1 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $1,545,314 across 7 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $1,617,156 across 17 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $701,458 assets, 7 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $667,769 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2021 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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