Form 990 for the fiscal year ending December 2024 (IRS tax year 2024).
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Where the money goes
Statement of Functional Expenses
Financial health
Summary of the Filing
Balance Sheet
Statement of Revenue
Financial Metrics
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
| Metric | This org | Peer median | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program ratio | 75% | — | — |
| Overhead ratio | 5% | — | — |
| Fundraising cost ratio | 22% | — | — |
| Revenue growth | -9% | — | — |
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Leadership and pay
Officers, Directors & Key Employees
Jamie Williams’s $375K as President (to Sep '24) is at the 78th percentile of top reported officer pay among 324 $10–100M environment nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Williams | $374,838 | $449,985 | $392,544 | $395,476 | $395,530 | $377,239 |
| David Seabrook | $373,570 | $336,905 | $270,837 | $228,256 | $180,401 | — |
| Elvis Cordova | $357,458 | $286,915 | — | — | — | — |
| Teresa Lane | — | $316,536 | $282,918 | $273,181 | $258,494 | $262,059 |
| Monique Dailey | $165,028 | $201,627 | $285,580 | $185,613 | — | — |
| Melyssa L Watson | — | — | $273,367 | $266,226 | $263,251 | $251,968 |
| Katharine L Thomas | — | — | $273,061 | $269,348 | $235,081 | $227,837 |
| Lauren Gephart | $267,373 | $269,408 | $160,381 | $154,856 | — | — |
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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Governance & Policies
Mission and programs
Protects America's public lands and wild places by collaborating with policymakers and communities to advance conservation policies and transition to net-zero emissions.
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Where the work happens
Connect, Protect, Steward Lands
America's public lands face serious threats from efforts to open them to extractive industries like oil, gas and mining; rollbacks of existing protections for national monuments and wilderness areas; proposals to sell or transfer federal lands to state or private ownership; and cuts to the agencies that manage these places.
Equitable Access
Equitable access to hike, camp, and recreate on federal lands is a key principle for ensuring communities benefit from and love their public lands. We are committed to the ideal that wilderness and all public lands can bring people and communities together and that everyone should share equitably in their benefits.
Climate Solutions
Public lands are home to important wildlife habitat, migration corridors, recreation areas, and cultural resources valued by communities, tribes, and the multi-billion dollar outdoor economy. At the same time, the western U.S.
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Funders
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Grants
Filing history
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Change | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | $42.0M | $43.5M | +7% | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $39.2M | $47.4M | -37% | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $62.6M | $42.8M | +49% | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $42.0M | $35.2M | +6% | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 | $39.5M | $33.9M | 990 PDF |
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