Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Jun 1998.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Who runs it and what they're paid
3 people listed on the 990-EZ.
Ross Crandall’s $46K as Executive Director is at the 78th percentile of top reported officer pay among 116 <$100K science & technology 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.
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Promotes balanced conservation, management, and education for long-term sustainability.
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Non-Invasive Monitoring Project
Peter Alexander wrote an interactive computer application to match species based on photo-ID. He is continuing to develop a version where a user can input any collection of photos to build a capture history or 'clean-up' a capture history that a machine learning algorithm may have put together with inconsistencies.
New Website and Social Media Strategies
This year CBS updated the entire Beringia website. Our goal was to create an engaging site that would encourage visitors to dive deeper into the site and keep coming back for more information. The site was redesigned with a focus on search engine optimization (SEO) and an improved user interface (UI) experience.
Meadow Road Biotic Inventory
A project with the goal of identifying all mammals, birds, and amphibians and their relative abundance and seasonal use patterns on property south of Moose, WY. In addition, we documented nesting raptors to supplement our historic dataset and tracked American Kestrals. A final report on this project has been issued in 2021.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2025 990-EZ, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Mar 10, 2026 | $43K | $430K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2024Filed with the IRS Feb 21, 2025 | $56K | $412K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Mar 18, 2024 | $47K | $405K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2022Filed with the IRS May 15, 2023 | $82K | $413K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2021Filed with the IRS May 15, 2022 | $175K | $89K | $87K | $465K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS May 27, 2021 | $224K | $196K | $28K | $386K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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