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Nonprofit · EIN 82-2974871

ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE

Tax-exempt · DENVER, CO 80246

Financials

$84K$83K2023$90K$89K2024$95K$76K2025
Revenue Expenses · by fiscal year end
Financials of ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE by year, from its e-filed returns
Year endedFormRevenueExpensesNet incomeTotal assetsLiabilitiesNet assets
December 31, 2025990-EZ$95,158$75,693$19,465$31,522$0$31,522
December 31, 2024990$90,376$89,054$1,322$12,057$0$12,057
December 31, 2023990$84,262$82,919$1,343$10,735$0$10,735
Financial details: 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025

Revenue

Contributions, gifts and grants
$410
Program service revenue
$94,682
Investment income
$66
Other revenue
$0

Expenses

Grants and similar amounts paid
$0
Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
$54,500
Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
$63,500
Professional fees and payments to contractors
$705
Occupancy
$3,504
Other expenses
$7,984
Program services (functional)
$75,694

Balance sheet and other

Total assets, start of year
$12,057
Total assets, end of year
$31,522
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets, end of year
$31,522
Cash, savings and investments
$31,522
Gross receipts
$95,158

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-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.

NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Alexa McKayExecutive Director40$32,000
Jeremy MckayExecutive Director40$22,500
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 2 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Alexa McKayExecutive Director
Officer, Key employee, Highest-paid employee
40$32,000
Jeremy MckayExecutive Director
Officer, Key employee
40$23,167
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 2 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Alexa McKayExecutive Director
Officer, Key employee, Highest-paid employee
40$41,167
Jeremy MckayExecutive Director
Officer, Key employee
40$24,500

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)
501 S CHERRY ST STE 1100, DENVER, CO 80246-1323
Mailing address (990-N for 2018)
501 S Cherry Street Suite 1100, Denver CO 80246
Principal officer (990-N for 2018)
Jeremy Mckay, 501 S Cherry Street Suite 1100, Denver CO 80246
Signed the 990-EZ
Jeremy Mckay, Executive Director
Phone
(720) 722-0336

Mission

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No matter whether they live in homes, on farms, or in the wild, we give a voice to animals through their human counterparts by providing affordable legal representation. We believe all communities have a right to a healthy environment and work to maintain and improve those places that are homes to our communities and our wildlife. We work for a better future for your family, for your community, for your world.

990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025

Program accomplishments

  • Environmental and Animal Defense fulfills its mission to provide relief to the poor, underprivileged and undeserved members of Colorado's community by addressing a priority of the Colorado Bar Association (CBA Executive Council and CBA Board of Governors) as recently reported to the Colorado Access to Justice Commission: [e]xplor[ing] ways lawyers can provide legal assistance and representation to low and middle income Coloradans, including limited scope representation and modest means representation.
    Expenses $41,839
  • While litigation is an essential part of protecting the environment for the public benefit and the prevention of cruelty to animals through the realistic development of an enforceable body of environmental and animal law through enforcement of existing statutes, regulations and common law principles, many issues are usually overlooked. With scarce availability of resources to devote, many nonprofit public interest litigation organizations focus heavily or exclusively on large national issues that whose litigation creates the largest impact. This often results in less popular, smaller, or nonnational issues concerning individual animals being overlooked by other nonprofits. While foundation, indicator, keystone, or other types of critical or important species to ecosystems probably should be prioritized, Environmental and Animal Defense thinks that every species and each animal should be preserved for the public benefit and each individual animal protected from cruelty. Protecting livestock from cruelty by litigating against a state agency that promulgates regulations that allow cruelty in violation of an authorizing statute certainly prevents cruelty to many animals, but protecting a single canine unlawfully seized to be euthanized also aids in the prevention of cruelty to animals. The same way public interest litigation serves civil rights by defending them in broad strokes in national and historic litigation and through individual defense of those rights, environmental protection and the prevention of cruelty to animals benefits from both large and small issues. The need for this a nonprofit for these public services is demonstrated by the absence of these services by national nonprofits and other organizations. In fact, part of the inspiration to form Environmental and Animal Defense came out of a legal need by a Denver Metropolitan Area animal shelter. A woman who was fostering a dog for this animal shelter refused to return the dog to the shelter when it became ill for medical treatment. The shelter attempted to hire an attorney, but could not afford the quoted cost to recover the dog from the woman who unlawfully kept it in her possession. The shelter, worried that the dog would die without legal intervention quickly, reached out for legal assistance to the only other available source, social media. The founders of Environmental and Animal Defense responded and shortly thereafter the dog was returned to the animal shelter for medical treatment. There was no other organization available to the animal shelter to provide legal services to prevent the cruelty to this dog through failing to provide medical treatment. Very few groups rarely take on these types of cases unless it is to set precedent for larger national impact.
    Expenses $33,855

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.

Tax yearYear endedDueIRS public records
2025December 31, 2025May 15, 2026990-EZ on file
2024December 31, 2024May 15, 2025990 on file
2023December 31, 2023May 15, 2024990 on file

File the 2026 990-EZ for ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE

Due May 17, 2027 · e-filed with the IRS by 990.tax, an IRS-authorized e-file provider

IRS record

EIN
82-2974871
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
2018
Accounting year ends
December
Files
Form 990 or 990-EZ
Assets (IRS master file)
$31,522
Income (IRS master file)
$95,158

Filing history

FormYear endedRevenueExpensesAssetsReturn
990-EZDecember 2025$95,158$75,693$31,522IRS
990December 2024$90,376$89,054$12,057IRS
990December 2023$84,262$82,919$10,735XML
990December 2022$61,592$91,497$9,392IRS
990December 2021–––IRS
990December 2020–––IRS
990-N for 2018
Officer: Jeremy Mckay
December 31, 2018≤ $50,000 receipts––e-Postcard

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 82-2974871).

Questions about ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE

What is the EIN of ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE?
The employer identification number (EIN) of ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE is 82-2974871.
Is ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE tax-exempt?
Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2018.
Are donations to ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE tax-deductible?
Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
Which annual return does ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE 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 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE due?
The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
When did ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE last file with the IRS?
The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended December 2025.
Who is the principal officer of ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE?
The 990-N for 2018 names Jeremy Mckay.
Who are the officers and directors of ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE?
The 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 2 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $32,000 (Alexa McKay, Executive Director).
How much revenue does ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMAL DEFENSE have?
On its 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $95,158, expenses of $75,693 and total assets of $31,522 at year end.

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