Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 1,073,207 | 1,642,001 | 4,366,871 | 2,171,159 | 2,071,915 | 11,325,153 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | 0 | |||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 1,073,207 | 1,642,001 | 4,366,871 | 2,171,159 | 2,071,915 | 11,325,153 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 4,906,340 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 6,418,813 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 1,073,207 | 1,642,001 | 4,366,871 | 2,171,159 | 2,071,915 | 11,325,153 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 176 | 31 | 2,964 | 21,906 | 20,914 | 45,991 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 16,619 | 6,608 | 13,780 | 18,271 | 3,924 | 59,202 |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 11,430,346 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 0.015 of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by 0.035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | 1 | |
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | 6 | |
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | 7 | |
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Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2020 from Section C, line 6 | 9 | |
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | 10 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2020 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2020 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2020 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2019 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2020: | ||||
| a From 2015....... | ||||
| b From 2016....... | ||||
| c From 2017....... | ||||
| d From 2018....... | ||||
| e From 2019....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2020 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2015 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2020 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
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| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2020 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2020, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2020. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2021. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2016..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2018..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2019..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2020..... | ||||
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Software ID: | 20011551 |
| Software Version: | 2020v4.0 |
Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Go to www.irs.gov/Form990 for the latest information.
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| Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description | OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: NATIONAL WILDLIFE CORRIDORS & CROSSINGS - From climate adaptation to wildlife migration, connectivity conservation is the most effective strategy to conserve nature at a large scale in much of the fragmented temperate and tropical regions of the world. While corridor science is decades old, its implementation has been slow and inconsistent. Policy efforts to identify, prioritize and protect ecological connectivity and wildlife corridors remain in the early stages. Through the past year, CLLC has made great strides in this arena. Language and concepts we drafted and advocated for have been included in federal and states bills. We have continued to foster a community of collaboration by working with partners at the regional and county levels to advance policies. We have succeeded in gaining traction for implementation of connectivity practices on the ground. See Schedule O. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: ADVANCING CONSERVATION SCIENCEThe Center for Large Landscape Conservation is currently engaged in a global analysis of conservation corridor efficacy. This 5-year project uses empirical evidence from "real" landscapes (as opposed to experimental systems or theoretical models) to identify characteristics of corridors that successfully facilitate animal movement between habitat patches. The results of this research will help land use planners and conservationists recognize and promote more effective corridors using the lessons learned from studying real-world corridors.The Center also looks at habitation fragmentation through the lens of landscape health. The emergence of SARS CoV 2, the novel coronavirus that causes the pandemic disease known COVID 19, highlights the public health impacts of habitat fragmentation. Tropical bats are known to be the primary reservoirs of novel coronaviruses and habitat fragmentation facilitates disease spillover. CLLC has developed a new framework to assess and to address this challenge through a program focus on Land-Use Induced Spillover. As a contractor on a 5-year research project, focusing on Dynamics of Zoonotic Systems: Human-Bat-Pathogen Interactions, the Center is aiming to re-establish winter/spring foraging habitat for bats (locally known as flying-foxes) in Australia by embedding modelled restoration targets into existing government- and privately-funded revegetation programs. If habitat loss drives spillover, then strategic restoration of critical habitat should provide a sustainable pathway for intervention. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: OTHER PROJECTSThe Center also acts as fiscal sponsor for ARC Solutions (ARC) and engages on partnership projects with this innovative collaborative. ARCAnimal Road Crossingis an interdisciplinary partnership working to facilitate new thinking, new methods, new materials and new solutions for wildlife crossing structures. In this partnership, the Center is providing technical support and coalition building for the construction of a wildlife crossing structure in Liberty Canyon, near Los Angeles. The Liberty Canyon Crossing will reconnect habitat for the areas mountain lion population, which is facing extinction due to habitat fragmentation. The structure will be not only the largest wildlife crossing in the world, but the first major crossing structure built near a major city.ARC, together with its partners and cooperating agencies, recently published Wildlife Crossing Success Stories in the Western States, a series of stories to celebrate existing and planned wildlife crossing projects aimed at making our highways safer for both people and wildlife. This initial version focuses on efforts to protect wildlife movement corridors and prevent wildlife-vehicle collisions made by 11 western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, but will eventually be expanded to highlight stories from across North America. This showcase of initiatives features a diversity of species, from toads to pronghorn to mountain lions; a range of landscapes, from urban to rural and in between; and a host of public and private partners, from federal, tribal, state and local agencies, to private companies, non-governmental organizations, philanthropic foundations and other stakeholders. The publication is a celebration of how people from all walks of life are working together to solve the problem of Animal-Vehicle Collisions. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process | FORM 990 IS REVIEWED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRIOR TO FILING |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts | Each year, all directors and officers are required to read, sign and adhere to the Conflict of Interest Policy. The Policy determines if a conflict exists, procedures for addressing a conflict, conflicts that may exist in compensation matters, how violations will be addressed and how to record proceedings. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management | The Executive Director's compensation is determined by a process which includes a yearly performance review, a review of other Executive Director's compensation, comparability data. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available | THE ORGANIZATION HAS MADE ITS GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, POLICIES, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AVAILABLE ON GUIDESTAR'S WEBSITE |
| FORM 990, PART III, LINE 1 - ORGANIZATION MISSION | The Center develops strategies that amplify community and governmental conservation efforts though tactical support in science, policy, community networking, and climate change resiliency planning. Our work defines and advances best practices in landscape connectivity throughout the U. S. and around the world. We engage in four ways. First, we support community-based planning to restore, protect, and mange large landscapes. We work with communities to plan for and restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes within which they live and work. Second, we develop and apply science to reconnect fragmented landscapes and provide safe passage for wildlife and people. Third, the Center connects professionals and decision makers to share information and resources worldwide. We serve as a hub for information, tools, news, and best practices. The Center is directly networked with over 28,000 conservation professionals and organizations around the globe. And finally, we inform new policy and law to support and accelerate large landscape conservation locally, nationally, and globally. We are developing international standards for corridors and connectivity areas, which is key to supporting a systems approach to protecting, restoring, and managing large landscapes. |
| FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4A - Building Conservation Networks | The Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC)s regranting program, Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund, continues to thrive. The original $1.9 million project is designed to accelerate the pace of conservation at scale across the United States through targeted support of collaborative Landscape Conservation and continues to grow in support and funding. The Catalyst Fund has regranted over $650,000 since 2019 and will continue to do so, supporting key collaborative processes and activities to build critical capacity and forward conservation momentum in Landscape Conservation Partnerships.Beginning in summer 2020 and continuing into 2021, the Network for Landscape Conservation has hosted a Virtual Policy Forum Series on the Future of Landscape Conservation. The purpose of this series is to foster a national dialogue on collaborative landscape conservation and the challenges and opportunities necessary for success. Through these conversations, we fill an important information-sharing and network-building niche by engaging policy leaders from a broad and diverse spectrum of organizations with the aim of improving the policies, resources, collaboration, and clarity on an emerging framework for landscape conservation in North America. Four well attended forums thus far, have provided a useful resource for policy-makers and practitioners alike as we navigate the changing political, economic, social, and environmental landscapes. |
| FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4B - INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIVITY CONSERVATION | The Center continues to serve as the secretariat for the IUCN WCPA Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG), whose membership exceeds 960 in 120 countries. Our staff co-chairs and partners with over 100 specialists in IUCNs Transport Working Group (TWG) and its two subsidiaries, the Asian Elephant Transport Working Group and the Latin America Transport Working Group. In mid-2020, the first-ever IUCN Guidelines for Conserving Connectivity through Ecological Networks and Corridors went to final publication and has received great praise thus far. Key elements of the publication are now being applied around the world, and global ground-testing has been initiated to demonstrate their effective delivery. Spawning from this effort, the Transport Working Group has engaged over 30 contributors from 20 countries to write the first-ever IUCN Guidelines for connectivity conservation impacted by linear transportation infrastructure. The 11-chapter book will be published later in 2021 as part of the IUCN WCPA Best Practice Guidelines. The Center has played a notable role in drafting the book, with staff and consultants supporting the process in numerous ways including serving as co-editors. The Center also continues to develop the International Transportation component of the International Connectivity program to spark a global dialogue and build a body of practice that addresses the significant ecological impacts of infrastructure. As a primary subcontractor of a USAID funded project Building a Foundation for Linear Infrastructure Safeguards in Asia, the Center led an assessment of the capacity of Asian countries to develop wildlife-friendly linear infrastructure (LI), focusing on roads, railways, and electric transmission lines. This year-long project will wrap up in September 2021, with results that help conservationists understand the challenges and barriers that slow the adoption and implementation of safeguards protecting Asias diverse wildlife species and their critical habitats from the regions rapidly expanding LI. Additionally, the Center is developing training materials for use in multiple capacity building workshops seeking to knowledge share and promote the implementation of measures that avoid and mitigate environmental impacts through better planning, design, construction, and monitoring of LI expansion across Asia. |
| FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4C - NATIONAL WILDLIFE CORRIDORS & CROSSINGS | The Center targets opportunities to advance wildlife corridors and crossing projects by providing technical, policy, and scientific expertise. We focus on well-crafted policies and replicable projects that offer the greatest potential to pilot innovative approaches, establish best practices, and apply proven solutions. CLLCs successes in this area span from federal legislation to state policies to local on the ground projects and more. Nationally, the Center helped secure infrastructure funding for wildlife crossing structures and other wildlife-related provisions in House Bill 3684 ($400M) and Senate Bill 1931 ($350M); worked with partners to revise the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act and the Tribal Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act for reintroduction in Congress; and worked with congressional staff and the Biden administration to incorporate funding for connectivity and landscape conservation into the Presidents Budget, congressional appropriations, and legislation. In addition, the Center formedtogether with the US Fish and Wildlife Servicea Road Ecology Task Force to develop policies, practices, and educational opportunities to conserve the threatened Desert Tortoise in the Southwest. Finally, the Center co-published a report, Build Back a Better National Landscape Conservation Framework, calling for a new national framework for landscape conservation. It provides a roadmap for how to achieve the Biden administration's ambitious conservation goals through policy and funding support of a national network of collaborative landscape conservation partnerships.Together with partners, the Center also laid the groundwork for successful state and county wildlife corridors and crossings legislation and agency policies. Center staff drafted and helped secure the unanimous passage of bipartisan habitat connectivity legislation in Colorado and provided technical support and outreach for wildlife crossing policy in Colorado and Virginia and data collection in Montana. The Center also developed a draft connectivity policy framework in collaboration with the Staying Connected Initiativea partnership working in the Northern Appalachians/Acadian region. In addition to helping craft policies for corridors and crossings, the Center is involved in securing funding and providing expertise for implementation, including for two projects near Yellowstone National Park in Montana. The Center, with partners, is carrying out a Wildlife and Transportation Conflict Assessment along US-191, incorporating citizen science data collection along this highway using the ROaDs (Roadkill Observation and Data System) smartphone app. In Montanas Paradise Valley, the Center held a series of four webinars to facilitate community dialogue, expanded citizen science through use of the ROaDs app, and monitored existing bridges along Hwy 89. |
| Software ID: | 20011551 |
| Software Version: | 2020v4.0 |