SAVING NATURE INC

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, 2025, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

586 ARROWHEAD TRL, KNOXVILLE, TN 37919-7609

In care of

% STUART PIMM

Principal officer (990 for 2025)

STUART PIMM, 1 BLAND SPRING PLACE, DURHAM, NC 27713

Signed the 990

STUART PIMM, PRESIDENT

Phone

(646) 489-5481

Website

SAVINGNATURE.COM

Return prepared by

CERINI & ASSOCIATES LLP

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO RESCUE ENDANGERED SPECIES FROM EXTINCTION AND COMMUNITIES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION. WE USE A PROVEN BLUEPRINT FOR STRATEGIC ACTION TO CONNECT, PROTECT AND RESTORE NATURE, GIVING ENDANGERED SPECIES THE CHANCE TO REBOUND AND COMMUNITIES A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE.

Program accomplishments

• SAVING NATURE IS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION GRANTED TAX-EXEMPT STATUS WITH THE IRS AS A 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION. THE ORGANIZATION FOCUSES ON NATURE IN CRISIS IN BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS, WHERE POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION DRIVE SPECIES EXTINCTIONS AND HARDSHIPS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES. WE WORK IN THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT AND THREATENED FORESTS TO RECONNECT ISOLATED FRAGMENTS, RESTORING ANCIENT MIGRATION ROUTES AND HIGHWAY CANOPIES DESTROYED BY HUMAN ACTIONS. WE DO THIS BY CREATING WILDLIFE CORRIDORS WITH NATIVE TREES. OUR PROJECTS ARE A MIX OF NATURAL REGENERATION AND TREE PLANTING. WE SELECT WILDLIFE CORRIDORS THAT OFFER THE GREATEST LEVERAGE IN RECONNECTING THE LAST STANDING FOREST REMNANTS. OUR CORRIDORS LINK ISOLATED HABITATS TO RESCUE BIODIVERSITY AND PRESERVE CRITICAL ECOSYSTEMS. BY LIBERATING SPECIES MAROONED IN FRAGMENTS TOO SMALL FOR THEIR LONG-TERM SURVIVAL, WE UNLOCK THE POTENTIAL FOR GENETIC RESCUE, EXPAND ACCESS TO RESOURCES, AND REDUCE HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT. LED BY DR. STUART PIMM, DORIS DUKE PROFESSOR OF CONSERVATION AT DUKE UNIVERSITY, OUR CONSERVATION PROJECTS ARE FIRMLY ROOTED IN SCIENCE, FOCUSING ON AREAS WITH THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF SPECIES AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXTINCTION. WITH OUR LEADERSHIP IN CONSERVATION SCIENCE, SAVING NATURE CAN PROVIDE IMPORTANT INSIGHTS INTO THE MOST EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS THAT ALIGN WITH NESTLE'S CLIMATE GOALS AND CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY. BIODIVERSITY TO IDENTIFY AREAS FOR BIODIVERSITY RESCUE, WE DEPLOY SCIENTIFIC DATA TO PINPOINT THE BEST LOCATIONS TO INTERVENE NARROWING DOWN HOTSPOTS SPANNING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SQUARE KILOMETERS TO TARGET THE MOST CRITICAL LOCATIONS FOR PRACTICAL ACTION GENERALLY AREAS OF LESS THAN 5,000 HECTARES. OUR APPROACH DISTILLS THE SUCCESS FACTORS NEEDED FOR EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION INTO ACTIONABLE INTERVENTIONS, FOCUSING ON THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF THREATENED, ENDEMIC, AND SMALL-RANGED SPECIES; THE ELEVATIONAL GRADIENTS WHERE THEY CONCENTRATE, THE PATTERNS OF DEFORESTATION, AND THE IMMEDIATE THREATS TO THE LAST STANDING FORESTS. OUR DATA SOURCES INCLUDE SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MAPS FROM THE IUCN (MAMMALS AND AMPHIBIANS) AND BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL AND EBIRD (BIRDS); ENDANGERED SPECIES DATA FROM THE IUCN RED LIST; AND SATELLITE IMAGERY FROM GOOGLE EARTH AND OUR DRONE FLIGHTS. BY DRAPING HEAT MAPS OF THESE DATA OVER 3D HABITAT VISUALIZATIONS, WE GET A CLEAR PICTURE OF AREAS NEEDING THE MOST IMMEDIATE ACTION. OUR TACTICAL MAPPING OF EXACTLY WHERE FOREST RESTORATIONS CAN HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACTS WAS FEATURED IN AMERICAN SCIENTIST (SEE PIMM SL, JENKINS CN. (2019) AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 107(3):162-9.). CLIMATE CHANGEOUR APPROACH IS A SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE, AND SCALABLE SOLUTION TO FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE. RESTORING DEGRADED LAND AND RECONNECTING ISOLATED FORESTS ABSORBS ATMOSPHERIC CARBON EMISSIONS AND HELPS SPECIES ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE BY FINDING SAFE HARBORS. THE FORESTS WE RESTORE SOAK UP CO2 FOR 20 YEARS OR MORE. INDEED, INCREASING EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO FOR MUCH LONGER, THOUGH AT A SLOWER RATE. IN ADDITION, THE CORRIDORS WE CREATE LIBERATE SPECIES TRAPPED AND ISOLATED IN INCREASINGLY INHOSPITABLE HABITATS. RECONNECTING FORESTS CREATE ESCAPE ROUTES FOR SPECIES SEEKING HIGHER GROUND IN AN ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE.TREE PLANTINGWE PLANT THE RIGHT TREES IN THE RIGHT PLACES TO SAFEGUARD BIODIVERSITY, PROTECT NATURE, AND FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. TO DATE, WE HAVE PLANTED OVER 5 MILLION TREES IN OUR PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD. ON AVERAGE, WE PLANT 1,675 TREES PER ACRE, COMPRISING HUNDREDS OF UNIQUE SPECIES OF NATIVE TREES - FRUIT TREES, NESTING TREES, PIONEER SPECIES, AND SUCCESSION SPECIES. IMPORTANTLY, WE SUPPORT NURSERIES RUN BY THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES, PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN RESTORING OUR LOST FORESTS. WHEN YOU TOTAL UP THE COST OF COLLECTING AND GROWING THE SAPLINGS, WEEDING, PLANTING, AND WATERING, OUR COSTS AVERAGE $2 PER TREE.LONG-TERM VISION SAVING NATURE CONDUCTS EXTENSIVE DUE DILIGENCE IN SELECTING OUR CONSERVATION PARTNERS, ENSURING LONG-TERM PROJECT DURABILITY. WE COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO BUILD CAPACITY IN CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE SCIENCE. THE CAPACITY OF POTENTIAL PARTNERS TO MAINTAIN PROJECTS IN THE LONG-TERM IS A CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR FOR CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE SEQUESTRATION. WE CAREFULLY SELECT LOCAL CONSERVATION NGO'S, FOCUSING ON CONSERVATION VALUE, PROVEN MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE, AND CLEAR LAND TENURE. WE LOOK FOR PARTNERS WHO ARE LOCALLY BASED OR AND WHO HAVE WORKED IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES FOR A DECADE OR MORE. OUR PARTNERS OWN AND MANAGE THE LAND AND HAVE TEAMS WHO LIVE YEAR-ROUND IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES. AS PRIVATE CONSERVATION RESERVES, OUR PROJECTS ARE NOT VULNERABLE TO GOVERNMENT SHIFTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES. MONITORING & TECHNICAL SUPPORT IMPORTANTLY, WE VISIT THE PROJECTS SO THAT WE CAN ASSESS THEIR POTENTIAL AND PROGRESS. WE DEPLOY CAMERA TRAPS THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT TO MONITOR WHICH SPECIES UTILIZE THE RESTORED HABITATS. TO ANALYZE THE DATA, WE SPONSOR CONSERVATION COURSES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY THAT TRAIN UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS IN CONSERVATION ANALYTICS. WE ALSO WORK WITH DUKE'S TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR TO DEVELOP MACHINE LEARNING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES TO AUTOMATE MONITORING EFFICIENCY, ACCURACY, AND REACH. FOR ARBOREAL SPECIES, WE CONDUCT IN-SITU SURVEYS OF THE RESTORED FORESTS AND USE OUR EXTENSIVE NATURAL HISTORY EXPERIENCE TO IDENTIFY SPECIES THAT HAVE RETURNED.
  Expenses $4,017,739 · grants $3,214,732 · revenue $4,738,109

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

84-2412702

Tax-exempt status

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

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2019

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Environment (C30)

Assets (IRS master file)

$1,939,022

Income (IRS master file)

$4,757,662

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 84-2412702).

Questions about SAVING NATURE INC

What is the EIN of SAVING NATURE INC?

The employer identification number (EIN) of SAVING NATURE INC is 84-2412702.

Is SAVING NATURE INC tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2019.

Are donations to SAVING NATURE INC tax-deductible?

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

Which annual return does SAVING NATURE INC 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 SAVING NATURE INC 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 SAVING NATURE INC last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.

Who is the principal officer of SAVING NATURE INC?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names STUART PIMM.

Who are the officers and directors of SAVING NATURE INC?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 8 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $130,250 (ERIN WILLIGAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR).

How much revenue does SAVING NATURE INC have?

On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $4,757,662, expenses of $4,097,215 and total assets of $1,939,022 at year end.

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