Defenders of Wildlife
Address: 1101 14th
Street, NW #1400
Washington, D.C. 20005
Telephone:
202-682-9400
Fax 202-682-1331
Email:
corasin@defenders.org
Website:
www.defenders.org
Status: 501(c)(3)
EIN: 53-0183181
Coalitions:
Endangered Species Act Coalition
Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network (GREEN)
1998 Income: $14,902,267
1998 Assets: $12,295,582
Founded: 1947
Exempt since: 1948
Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending September
30, 2000
|
Revenue |
|
Expenses |
|
Contributions |
$14,780,595 |
|
Government Grants |
$25,000 |
|
Program Services |
$0 |
|
Investments |
$458,134 |
|
Special Events |
$0 |
|
Sales |
$0 |
|
Other |
$810,572 |
|
|
|
Program Services |
$11,897,431 |
|
Administration |
$1,253,858 |
|
Other |
$1,808,045 |
|
Total Expenditures |
$14,959,334 |
|
|
Total Revenue |
$16,074,301 |
|
NET
GAIN/LOSS |
$1,114,967 |
Brief Sketch: Began as anti-ranching group opposed to predator control,
developed into grant-driven operation headed by wealthy urbanites and well-positioned
academics generally opposed to rural development. Has long record of questionable
practices such as the 1994 case of pretending friendliness to property owners in
Louisiana's Black Bear Conservation Committee, while quietly filing a lawsuit against the
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service demanding that the black bear be listed as an endangered
species, then threatening to sue again because the Service had not designated
"critical habitat" for the bear, all of which threatened the private property
owners who believed Defenders of Wildlife was helping them. The group's membership is
unaware of this and many similar deceptions.
President: Winsome Dunn
McIntosh (Officer of the McIntosh Foundation — the fortune of the Great Atlantic
& Pacific Tea Company)
Executive Director: Rodger Schlickeisen
Board of Directors:
- Alan R. Pilkington
Chairman; Chairman,
DDB Needham Chicago.
Illinois
- Winsome Dunn McIntosh Vice-Chairman;
President,
Philanthropic Strategies, Inc., District of Columbia
- Ann Franks Boren
Secretary;
Environmental Advocate,
California
- Arthur C. Martinez
Treasurer;
Chairman of the Board and CEO,
Sears, Roebuck and Co., Illinois
- Edward Asner;
Actor,
California
- Thomas C. T. Brokaw,
Private Investor,
Delaware
- Grove T. Burnett,
Attorney,
Western Environmental Law Center,
New Mexico
- Caroline Gabel,
President and CEO,
Shared Earth Foundation,
Maryland
- David H. Getches;
Professor of Law,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
Colorado
- Katherine A. Meyer;
Founding Partner;
Meyer and Glitzenstein,
District of Columbia
- Ruth S. Musgrave;
Founder and Director,
Center for Wildlife Law, University of New Mexico,
New Mexico
- Dr. Barry R. Noon;
Professor,
Colorado State University,
Colorado
- Dr. Bryan G. Norton;
Professor of Philosophy,
School of Public Policy,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Georgia
- Brian B. O'Neill;
Attorney,
Faegre and Benson,
Minnesota
- The Honorable Wayne Owens,
Former Congressman from Utah; Attorney,
Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation,
Utah
- Terry C. Pelster;
Attorney,
New York
- Dr. Steward T. A. Pickett;
Scientist,
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, New York
- Dr. H. Ronald Pulliam,
Professor of Environment and Ecology,
University of Georgia,
Georgia
- Dr. Rodger O. Schlickeisen;
President,
Defenders of Wildlife,
Virginia
- Karin P. Sheldon;
Professor of Environmental Law,
Vermont Law School,
Vermont
- Margery Tabankin,
Executive Director,
Margery Tabankin and Associates,
California
- Jeanne S. Whiteing;
Founder,
Whiteing and Thompson,
Colorado
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Dr. Ralph Buchsbaum,
California
Dr. Richard H. Pough,
New York
CORPORATE COUNSEL Terry C. Pelster,
New York
SCIENCE ADVISORY PANEL
Dr. Stephen R. Kellert
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
Dr. Lynn Maguire
Duke University
Dr. Dennis D. Murphy
Department of Biology
University of Nevada
Dr. Reed F. Noss
Conservation Biology Institute
Dr. Gordon H. Orians
Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Washington
Dr. Steward T. A. Pickett
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Dr. H. Ronald Pulliam
University of Georgia
Dr. Michael H. Robinson
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Dr. William W. Shaw
University of Arizona
Dr. Michael Soul
The Wildlands Project
Dr. Donald Waller
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University
LITIGATION COMMITTEE
Brian B. O'Neill
Chairman
Faegre and Benson
Grove T. Burnett
Western Environmental Law Center
Joe Feller
College of Law
Arizona State UniversityDavid Getches
School of Law
University of Colorado-Boulder
Oliver A. Houck
Tulane Law School
Katherine A. Meyer
Meyer and Glitzenstein
Ruth S. Musgrave
Center for Wildlife Law
Karin P. Sheldon
Vermont Law School
Jeanne S. Whiteing
Whiteing and Thompson
*Executive Committee Member
NOTE: The
Defenders of Wildlife website and publications do not reveal their
funding sources, nor do their IRS Form 990 annual reports. The data
below were obtained from private subscription-only databases of the
Foundation Center. THIS INFORMATION WAS NOT PROVIDED BY
Defenders of Wildlife.
GRANTS
to Defenders of Wildlife:
Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation
AMOUNT: $16,400 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network (GREEN), for hard rock mining
project
MOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For general support for Endangered Species Coalition
AMOUNT: $15,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
Turner Foundation, Inc.
AMOUNT: $45,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
Moriah Fund
ABSTRACT: For Endangered Species Coalition's activities to educate public and opinion
leaders about importance of strong protection regime for endangered plants and animals
AMOUNT: $35,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998
Moriah Fund
ABSTRACT: For grassroots and media outreach follow-up to Southern Forest Biodiversity
Project to safeguard population viability provisions of National Forest Management Act
AMOUNT: $20,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998
Foundation for Deep Ecology
ABSTRACT: For Endangered Species Coalition public education project
AMOUNT: $15,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998
The Walt Disney Company Foundation
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For public education concerning Endangered Species Act
AMOUNT: $30,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
Sequoia Foundation
ABSTRACT: For unrestricted support
AMOUNT: $15,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996
Surdna Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For continued support to consolidate new staff capacity
AMOUNT: $200,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
DURATION: 2-year grant
Meyer Memorial Trust
ABSTRACT: For Oregon Biodiversity Project, which collects information and develops maps
describing biological diversity of state of Oregon so that public and private landowners
can use information in making land use decisions
AMOUNT: $100,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1997
Surdna Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For natural resource economist and conservation biologist
AMOUNT: $100,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996
Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996
Weeden Foundation
ABSTRACT: For pilot GAP Analysis Project, to restore state's natural heritage
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1994
The Florence and John Schumann Foundation
ABSTRACT: For National Conference on Wildlife Law
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1993
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1993
The McIntosh Foundation
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1993
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1992
Forrest C. Lattner Foundation, Inc.
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1992
The Pew Charitable Trusts
ABSTRACT: For public education campaign to end commercial trade of captured wild birds
AMOUNT: $63,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1992
Compton Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For three-year program called Wildfire Inventory and Land Dedication (WILD), to
help preserve nation's biological diversity
AMOUNT: $25,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: Toward publication of wildlife guide
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991
The Pew Charitable Trusts
ABSTRACT: For campaign of education, research and policy recommendations designed to
promote restrictions on importation of wild birds and to improve conditions under which
wild birds are traded
AMOUNT: $75,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
ABSTRACT: For field representative's wetlands work in Central Valley
AMOUNT: $20,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1991
Ford Motor Company Fund
AMOUNT: $35,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1990
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
AMOUNT: $15,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1990
Burlington Northern Foundation
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1988
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1988
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