2024-10-14T14:05:51-07:00 2023-12-31 330783983 West Rhode & Roberts 2741 4th Ave San Diego CA 92103 990 2023-01-01 770536297 WILDCOAST WILD 6194238530 2010 JIMMY DURANTE BLVD STE 230 DEL MAR CA 92014 SERGE DEDINA Executive Dir. 2024-10-14 true true Christopher M Roberts P00235008 6196155380 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X 2010 JIMMY DURANTE BLVD STE 230 DEL MAR CA 92014 4023268 false X www.wildcoast.net X 2000 CA THE MISSION OF WILDCOAST IS TO CONSERVE COASTAL AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH NATURAL SOLUTIONS. 12 12 16 2300 0 4623560 3898892 0 8057 78676 20441 31728 4652058 4009296 707000 1036000 0 1171666 1342451 0 267780 765813 865572 2644479 3244023 2007579 765273 6212374 6937410 162052 121815 6050322 6815595 THE MISSION OF WILDCOAST IS TO CONSERVE COASTAL AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH NATURAL SOLUTIONS. OUR STAFF IS DEDICATED TO CONSERVING THREATENED AND ENDANGERED COASTLINES AND WILDLIFE IN CALIFORNIA AND MEXICO. WILDCOASTS AWARD-WINNING TEAM IS PASSIONATE, DEDICATED, AND DRIVEN TO ACHIEVE HIGH IMPACT RESULTS THAT SAFEGUARD OUR COASTAL AND MARINE HERITAGE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. false false 2784103 1036000 WILDCOAST, founded in 2000, is an international team that conserves coastal and marine ecosystems and addresses climate change through natural solutions. To achieve our mission, we establish and manage protected areas, protect and restore blue carbon ecosystems, and partner with local communities, governments, and the private sector.COSTASALVAJE, WILDCOASTs Mexico division, was established in 2008, and we are currently a registered tax-deductible, non-profit organization in both the United States and Mexico. We have a staff of 28 spread among offices in San Diego, Tijuana, Ensenada, La Paz, Oaxaca, and Mexico City.Natural Climate SolutionsMexico:Through legal protection and management, we are conserving and restoring 32,189 acres of mangrove forests in the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and Oaxaca that store 13 million tons of carbon. In the process, we are helping to create hundreds of local jobs restoring these mangrove forests that help address the climate crisis. We collaborate with groups of women from five regions of Mexico to train and equip them with the knowledge to carry out mangrove conservation and restoration in their local communities. We have planted over 178,000 mangrove seedlings, restoring 271 acres with local women from Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the worlds most pristine gray whale breeding lagoon.California:In Southern California, we are restoring 50.5 acres of wetlands that currently store over 3,000 tons of carbon and sequester roughly 40 tons of carbon every year. We partner with Scripps Institution of Oceanography to measure the amount of carbon stored in the sediment of coastal wetlands. We have gathered over 500 samples of blue carbon in five San Diego County wetlands that help us inform conservation policy and restoration.We also co-lead the Blue Carbon Collaborative with our partners at Coastal Quest, an international community of stakeholders that work together to align and advance blue carbon initiatives.California Marine Protected AreasWe help to manage and conserve 545,280 acres of marine protected areas off California's coast through innovative compliance initiatives such as the MPA Watch community science program and Tidepool Ambassador Program. We have deployed three Marine Monitor (M2) RADAR units adjacent to 14,534 acres of San Diego County MPAs and provide data to local wardens and the District Attorneys office. Coral ReefsWe are strengthening the management of 38.6 million acres of protected areas that are home to more than 1,611 acres of coral reef ecosystems of the Mexican Pacific. These coral reefs produce up to 38,000 tons of marine life per acre that end up in adjacent fishing areas each year. To safeguard these critical marine ecosystems, we monitor coral reefs across nine marine protected areas in Mexico, promote reef stewardship, and educate communities and tourism outfitters about the importance of healthy and thriving coral reef ecosystems. We have also installed 220 conservation buoys that help protect reefs in Mexico by providing vessels with a safe place to anchor, rather than dropping anchor on the reef.Marine DebrisSince 2021, our trash boom in Tijuana near the US-Mexico border, the first-ever solid waste retention system in Mexico, has stopped 200,000+ pounds of plastic and debris from reaching the Pacific Ocean and contaminating a bi-national network of coastal, marine, and island protected areas. We plan to install a second trash boom in the El Pato neighborhood of Tijuana in late 2024 that will collect an additional 3,000 lbs of trash every month. Sea TurtlesIn Oaxaca, Mexico, we protect 22.5 miles of coastline and monitor arribadas (mass sea turtle nesting events) at Escobilla and Morro Ayuta beaches, the two most important olive ridley sea turtle nesting beaches in the world, where more than 2.5 million turtles have laid eggs and more than 72 million eggs have hatched since 2017. Additionally, WILDCOAST successfully advocated for the creation of the 224-acre Morro Ayuta Sanctuary, declared on January 8th, 2024, that will provide even greater protection for nesting turtles. WildlandsIn order to conserve the last remaining coastal wilderness along the Pacific coast of the Baja California Peninsula, we established the WILDCOAST Valle de los Cirios Coastal Reserve through private land acquisition and conservation easements. The reserve consists of 39.5 miles of coastline and 51,938.5 acres of desert wilderness, making it the largest private coastal conservation reserve in all of northwest Mexico and the Californias. 2784103 true true false false false false false false false false true false false true true true false true false false true true false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true true false false true 6 0 true 16 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 12 12 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X X CLARK LABITAN 6194236037 2010 JIMMY DURANTE BLVD STE 230 DEL MAR CA 92014 SERGE DEDINA Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 158527 0 352 FAY CREVOSHAY Sr Com & Policy Dr 40.00 0.00 112145 0 12239 CLARK LABITAN Sr. Finance Dir 40.00 0.00 X 111615 0 12650 JOSH CHATTEN-BROWN Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 DOVI KACEV PHD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 HEIDI DEWAR PHD Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DAVID PRICE Chairman 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JILL GARTMAN Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 EMILY WELBORN GUEVARA Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DOMINIQUE CANO-STOCCO Vice Chairman 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 LAURA ARAUJO Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MARY KAY FARYAN Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CRAIG GAUNCE Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 INDRA GARDINER BOWERS Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DOUG SHERES Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 382287 25241 3 false true false 0 168090 352679 3378123 3898892 0 3118 3118 0 0 0 75558 75558 75558 75558 45700 168090 13972 31728 31728 0 0 0 4009296 110404 0 0 1036000 1036000 0 283144 199519 29631 53994 0 790268 561242 75394 153632 0 119017 75785 35343 7889 150022 82841 44505 22676 0 0 0 0 0 0 41540 33107 4238 4195 22494 20323 2171 402 402 79809 79689 120 0 39636 34166 3029 2441 87818 81619 6199 0 0 0 0 19644 19644 10716 10716 OUTSIDE SERVICES 407940 407940 PROGRAM EXPENSES 111989 107431 4558 MISCELLANEOUS 30936 21328 9608 TELEPHONE AND INTERNET 12648 12351 297 0 3244023 2784103 192140 267780 646500 1786875 3108304 3702347 1206198 225567 0 0 0 0 0 5054 12725 294345 280450 26567 13895 0 0 0 0 1219751 1196001 6212374 6937410 125160 113433 36892 8382 162052 121815 X 4763409 5423220 1286913 1392375 6050322 6815595 6212374 6937410 765273 X false true X true false X 1732112 2192224 2841565 4623560 3898892 15288353 0 0 1732112 2192224 2841565 4623560 3898892 15288353 3959448 11328905 510 87 587 3118 4302 0 0 15292655 0.74080 0.64840 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 34804 34804 222494 209311 13183 37047 36335 712 13895 Costasalvaje 1186098 Right of use assets 9903 1196001 LEASE LIABILITY 8382 8382 X Part X : FIN48 Footnote WILDCOAST is exempt from federal income taxes under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and is also exempt from the State of California franchise and income tax under Section 23701(d) of the State Revenue and Taxation Code.The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Codification No. 740-10, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Tax, which sets a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. 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