WILD SALMON RIVERS

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

16430 72ND AVE W, EDMONDS, WA 98026-4908

In care of

% PETER W SOVEREL

Mailing address (990-N for 2014)

16430 72nd Ave W, Edmonds WA 98026

Principal officer (990 for 2024)

JOHN MCMILLAN, PO BOX 13121, PORTLAND, OR 97213

Principal officer (990-N for 2014)

Peter Soverel, 16430 72nd Ave W, Edmonds WA 98026

Signed the 990

JOHN MCMILLAN, PRESIDENT

Phone

(425) 501-9852

Website

www.steelhead.org

Return prepared by

CBIZ ADVISORS LLC

Mission

TO CONSERVE FUNCTIONING SALMON/STEELHEAD ECO-SYSTEM AT WATERSHED LEVELS, INTEGRATE ANGLING ACTIVITIES WITH BASIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, COLLECT RAW DATA, MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONS, SALMON/STEELHEAD POPULATION DYNAMICS, PUBLIC EDUCATION, PROVIDE LOGISTIC SUPPORT FOR... TO CONSERVE FUNCTIONING SALMON/STEELHEAD ECO-SYSTEM AT WATERSHED LEVELS, INTEGRATE ANGLING ACTIVITIES WITH BASIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, COLLECT RAW DATA, MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONS, SALMON/STEELHEAD POPULATION DYNAMICS, PUBLIC EDUCATION, PROVIDE LOGISTIC SUPPORT FOR FIELD WORK IN REMOTE LOCATIONS, PROVIDE ANTI-POACHING SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION ETHIC AND SUSTAINABLE ECO-TOURISM, PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Program accomplishments

• TCA'S PRIORITIES ARE TO GALVANIZE ANGLERS IN A COALITION TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE OUR ICONIC WATERSHEDS, WHICH REPRESENT THE LIFEBLOOD OF WILD STEELHEAD AND SALMON. CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN 2024 INCLUDE: - COLUMBIA AND SNAKE RIVER STEELHEAD CONSERVATION- OLYMPIC PENINSULA STEELHEAD CONSERVATION- WILLAMETTE RIVER STEELHEAD AND CHINOOK CONSERVATION- NORTH UMPQUA STEELHEAD CONSERVATION [SEE SCHEDULE O FOR MORE INFORMATION]COLUMBIA AND SNAKE RIVER STEELHEAD CONSERVATION - WILD STEELHEAD RETURNING TO THE MOST PROLIFIC STEELHEAD AND SALMON RIVER ON THE WEST COAST RUN A GAUNTLET AS THEY RETURN HOME. ONE OBSTACLE WE CAN EASE OR REMOVE IS HARVEST. TCA'S GOAL IS TO REDUCE THE ENCOUNTER RATE ON WILD STEELHEAD BY PROTECTING REFUGE AREAS AND REFORMING FISHING REGULATIONS ALONG THE WAY. CATCH AND RELEASE BY ITSELF IS NOT ENOUGH TO PROTECT WILD STEELHEAD BOUND FOR RIVERS SUCH AS THE WIND, KLICKITAT, DESCHUTES, JOHN DAY, WENATCHEE, CLEARWATER, SNAKE, AND GRAND RONDE. OLYMPIC PENINSULA STEELHEAD CONSERVATION - OLYMPIC PENINSULA WILD STEELHEAD ARE IN STEEP DECLINE OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS. TCA HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE TO MODIFY MANAGEMENT REGIMES, REDUCE RECREATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL HARVEST, SET ESCAPEMENT REQUIREMENT, PARTICIPATED IN A NUMBER OF COMMISSION AND WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, AND DATA MINING. WILLAMETTE RIVER STEELHEAD AND CHINOOK CONSERVATION - THE WILLAMETTE RIVER IS OREGON'S LARGEST WATERSHED AND HOME TO WILD SPRING CHINOOK, WINTER STEELHEAD AND NUMEROUS WILD TROUT POPULATIONS. HOWEVER, ITS PRODUCTIVITY HAS BEEN HAMSTRUNG BY 14 FLOOD CONTROL AND HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS AND FAILING MITIGATION EFFORTS. TCA IS WORKING ALONGSIDE OTHER CONSERVATION GROUPS TO REFORM FLOW REGIMES AND REMOVE HARMFUL HATCHERY STEELHEAD PROGRAMS. NORTH UMPQUA STEELHEAD CONSERVATION - THE NORTH UMPQUA COALITION CONSISTING OF NATIVE FISH SOCIETY, OREGON COUNCIL OF FLYFISHERS INTERNATIONAL, PACIFIC RIVERS, THE CONSERVATION ANGLER, THE NORTH UMPQUA FOUNDATION, THE STEAMBOATERS, TROUT UNLIMITED, AND UMPQUA WATERSHEDS FORMED IN JANUARY 2021. COLLECTIVELY WE DETERMINED THAT OREGON SHOULD MANAGE THE NORTH UMPQUA AS A WILD STEELHEAD WATERSHED WHICH WOULD BECOME THE ONLY RIVER IN OREGON MANAGED FOR BOTH WILD WINTER AND SUMMER STEELHEAD. THE COALITION FOCUSED ITS ADVOCACY ON EDUCATING THE OREGON FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION ABOUT THE WILD SUMMER STEELHEAD, THEIR ICONIC STATUS AS A GAMEFISH PURSUED BY ANGLERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, AS WELL AS THEIR INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY AND UNIQUE LIFE HISTORY ATTRIBUTES WHICH ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THEIR FUTURE SURVIVAL.
  Expenses $309,744
• INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION, SCIENCE, AND ADVOCACY: PROGRAM INCLUDES PORTIONS OF THE KAMCHATKA STEELHEAD PROJECT, DEVELOPMENT OF OUR NORTHERN CROWN INITIATIVE, AND CROSS-BORDER SCIENTIFIC AND ADVOCACY COLLABORATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ONTARIO, CANADA. OUR SCIENCE AND ADVOCACY STAFF WORK WITH INDEPENDENT AND AGENCY SCIENTISTS AND ADVOCATES WITH ORGANIZATIONS LOCATED IN CANADA AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING AND EXCHANGING SCIENTIFIC AND CONSERVATION KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WILD STEELHEAD. DATA COLLECTED THROUGH THE KSP HAS PROVIDED THE BASIS FOR OVER TWO DOZEN SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND INCLUDES IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ANADROMOUS AND NON-ANADROMOUS LIFE HISTORIES WITHIN AND BETWEEN BREEDING POPULATIONS. THROUGH INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM FLY-CAUGHT STEELHEAD DURING THE LIFE OF THE PROJECT, OUR UNDERSTANDING NOT ONLY OF ASIATIC STEELHEAD BUT, BY EXTENSION, THEIR NORTH AMERICAN RELATIVES AND HAS ENABLED OUR ORGANIZATION TO ADVOCATE FOR CONSERVATION EFFORTS TO FURTHER WILD FISH RECOVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. KAMCHATKA STEELHEAD PROJECT: THE CONSERVATION ANGLER AND MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY CONTINUE TO BE UNABLE TO CONDUCT NORMAL FIELD OPERATIONS. TCA AND MGU INSTEAD, MOUNTED AND ANTI-POACHING OPERATIONS TO PROTECT CONSERVATION GAINS REALIZED OVER THE PROCEEDING 29 YEARS
  Expenses $52,918
• THE OSPREY: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SALMON AND STEELHEAD CONSERVATION PUBLISHES THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, POLICY, NEWS, AND OPINION ABOUT WILD PACIFIC SALMON AND STEELHEAD CONSERVATION. OUR PARTNERSHIPS MAKE THIS POSSIBLE AND THE CONSERVATION ANGLER WORKS WITH FLYFISHERS INTERNATIONAL, THE FLY SHOP, WILD STEELHEAD COALITION, WORLD SALMON FORUM, SKEENAWILD, THE STEELHEAD SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, WILD FISH CONSERVANCY AND INDEPENDENT SCIENTISTS AND WRITERS. THE OSPREY ADVOCATES FOR THE CONSERVATION OF WILD STEELHEAD AND SALMON STOCKS AND THE RECOVERY OF DEPRESSED POPULATIONS. THE OSPREY IS GOVERNED BY AN EDITORIAL AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND A COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONALLY PROMINENT SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS PROVIDES EDITORIAL GUIDANCE.
  Expenses $38,749
• NATURAL RESOURCE AGENCY BUDGET ADVOCACY: THE STATES OF IDAHO, WASHINGTON, AND OREGON OPERATE MULTIPLE SALMON AND STEELHEAD HATCHERIES ALONG THE COLUMBIA AND SNAKE RIVERS WHICH ARE THE PRODUCT OF AGREEMENTS TO TRADE FREE-FLOWING RIVERS FOR HATCHERY FISH. THESE HATCHERIES REPRESENT A FAILED PROMISE, A PROMISE MADE BEFORE WE UNDERSTOOD THAT HATCHERIES WOULD FAIL TO REPLACE WILD STEELHEAD AND SALMON. TCA IS WORKING TO REFORM THE MITIGATION REQUIREMENTS AUTHORIZED BY MULTIPLE DAMS AND HATCHERY-BUILDING BOONDOGGLES SO THAT WILD FISH CAN REBUILD THE ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY IN MULTIPLE WATERSHEDS.
  Expenses $26,768 · revenue $53,784

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

33-1034829

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2005

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Environment (C30)

Assets (IRS master file)

$848,724

Income (IRS master file)

$733,369

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 33-1034829).

Questions about WILD SALMON RIVERS

What is the EIN of WILD SALMON RIVERS?

The employer identification number (EIN) of WILD SALMON RIVERS is 33-1034829.

Is WILD SALMON RIVERS tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2005.

Are donations to WILD SALMON RIVERS tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does WILD SALMON RIVERS file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of WILD SALMON RIVERS due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did WILD SALMON RIVERS last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.

Who is the principal officer of WILD SALMON RIVERS?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names JOHN MCMILLAN.

Who are the officers and directors of WILD SALMON RIVERS?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 12 people; 5 received compensation from the organization, the highest $71,500 (DAVID MOSKOWITZ, EXECUTIVE DIR. (JAN-OCT)/SECRETARY).

How much revenue does WILD SALMON RIVERS have?

On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $608,006, expenses of $498,766 and total assets of $848,724 at year end.

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