GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: Form 990, tax year 2022

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Organization
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (EIN 45-5494919)
Tax period
2022-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Filed
2023-11-13
IRS object ID
202323179349303717
Schema version
2022v5.0
Source
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DescRhinos without Borders has been instrumental in the relocation of 87 rhinos from South Africa into the Botswana wilderness. There are 3 core breeding herds and over the past 6 years 68 new calves have been born. The program covers the full cost of pretranslocation quarantine costs and all licensing costs, transportation costs, release costs, and post-release security and monitoring. The foundation covers thec osts of two monitoring teams who are based clsoe to the breeding herds, the costs ofa central monitoring station, telemetry equipment, and satelite tracking of the rhinos. This has ensured that the herds are managed and relocated away from high-risk areas. Poaching risk has risen in the last year in Botswana and the constant on the ground monitoring combined with aerial observation and satelite tracking has significantly reduced the threat. Monitoring teams consistently engage with the community to educate on the benefits of a diverse wildlife population and the commericial benefits which flow from employment opportunities in the tourism sector.Desc

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DescProject Ranger began in 2020 as a respone to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Project Ranger provided emergency poaching prevention initiatives, as travel and tourism to wilderness areas was brought to a standstill. Guides and rangers in parks and protected areas are left without personal income. This leaves endangered animals vulnerable to poachers - and poaching has increased dramatically. Project ranger provides emergency funding for operational expenses of rangers and anti-poaching personnell to suppor those on the front lines of conservation.Desc

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DescProject Rewild is focused on the translocation of wildlife into the lower Zambezi Valley, where due to historic poaching, wildlife numbers declined significantly. In 2022 we launched our first effort to translocate elephants on a large scale, with 101 elephants are now free in the Sapi Reserve. Within each group we collared each herd matriarch, not only to protect individual animals but also to research, learn and contribute to the body of knowledge around successful elephant translocations. We are developing mapping of elephant ranges now to understand where we can accommodate elephants in a rewilding program on a very large scale. This program includes the construction of a research camp and security and monitoring camp within the 132,000 hectare area.Desc
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Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$2,902CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$56,861CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$1,702CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year$2,850CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$66,483TotalAmt

Post1975 UBTI Post1975UBTIGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$0TotalAmt

Investment Income And UBTI InvestmentIncomeAndUBTIGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years$2,168CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$2,902CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$56,861CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$1,702CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year$2,850CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$66,483TotalAmt

Net Income From Other UBI NetIncomeFromOtherUBIGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$0TotalAmt

Other Income509 OtherIncome509Grp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year$193CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$193TotalAmt

Total Support Calendar Year TotalSupportCalendarYearGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years$1,097,872CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$1,871,897CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$2,349,943CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$1,220,384CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year$3,250,910CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$9,791,006TotalAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Public Support CY5090.61780PublicSupportCY509Pct
Public Support PY5090.48000PublicSupportPY509Pct
Investment Income CY0.00680InvestmentIncomeCYPct
Thirty Thr Pct Suprt Tests CY509Yes (X)ThirtyThrPctSuprtTestsCY509Ind
Facts And Circumstances TestPart III Section B Line 13 In 2022, the organization received miscellaneous revenue in the amount of 193.FactsAndCircumstancesTestTxt

Schedule B IRS990ScheduleB

Contributor Information ContributorInformationGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
ContributorRESTRICTEDContributorNum

Contributor Business Name ContributorBusinessName

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1RESTRICTEDBusinessNameLine1

Contributor US Address ContributorUSAddress

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Address Line1RESTRICTEDAddressLine1
Address Line2RESTRICTEDAddressLine2
CityRESTRICTEDCity
StateRESTRICTEDState
ZIP CodeRESTRICTEDZIPCode
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total ContributionsRESTRICTEDTotalContributionsAmt

Schedule D IRS990ScheduleD

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Incl Escrow Custodial Acct LiabfalseInclEscrowCustodialAcctLiabInd

Land LandGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$84,300OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Book Value$84,300BookValueAmt

Buildings BuildingsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$10,000OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Book Value$10,000BookValueAmt

Equipment EquipmentGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$5,460OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation$576DepreciationAmt
Book Value$4,884BookValueAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Land Buildings$99,184TotalBookValueLandBuildingsAmt

Other Securities OtherSecuritiesGrp (3 entries)

DescDescBook ValueBookValueAmtMethod ValuationMethodValuationCd
Financial derivatives and other financial products
Closely-held equity interests
Non-Publicly Traded Securities$1,000,000C
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Securities$1,000,000TotalBookValueSecuritiesAmt

Other Liabilities Org OtherLiabilitiesOrgGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
DescFederal income taxesDesc

Schedule F IRS990ScheduleF

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Grant Records MaintainedYes (true)GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Account Activities Outside US AccountActivitiesOutsideUSGrp (2 entries)

RegionRegionTxtOfficesOfficesCntEmployeeEmployeeCntType Of Activities ConductedTypeOfActivitiesConductedTxtSpecific Services ProvidedSpecificServicesProvidedTxtRegion Total ExpendituresRegionTotalExpendituresAmt
Sub-Saharan Africa158Program ServicesConservation Programs$1,106,073
Sub-Saharan Africa158GrantmakingGrantmaking$1,694,483
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Subtotal Offices2SubtotalOfficesCnt
Subtotal Employees116SubtotalEmployeesCnt
Total Office2TotalOfficeCnt
Total Employee116TotalEmployeeCnt
Subtotal Spent$2,800,556SubtotalSpentAmt
Total Spent$2,800,556TotalSpentAmt

Grants To Org Outside US GrantsToOrgOutsideUSGrp (16 entries)

RegionRegionTxtPurpose Of GrantPurposeOfGrantTxtCash GrantCashGrantAmtManner Of Cash DisbursementMannerOfCashDisbursementTxt
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries$9,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support community scouts.$10,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and a K9 Unit.$10,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and a K9 Unit.$18,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and equipment$19,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries, rations and equipment$6,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and a K9 Unit.$9,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries, rations and equipment$41,650WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and pangolin research$13,680WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries$9,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and a K9 Unit.$25,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and a K9 Unit.$20,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support ranger salaries and a K9 Unit.$25,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaProject Ranger grant to support bushmeat DNA analysis$50,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaBig Cats Initiative grant to support ranger salaries and lion bone imprinting for a K9 unit Pittrack NPC$33,000WIRE
Sub-Saharan AfricaConservation Education Kids Camp in Kenya$7,500WIRE
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Other Org16TotalOtherOrgCnt

Foreign Individuals Grants ForeignIndividualsGrantsGrp (5 entries)

Type Of AssistanceTypeOfAssistanceTxtRegionRegionTxtRecipientRecipientCntCash GrantCashGrantAmtManner Of Cash DisbursementMannerOfCashDisbursementTxtNon Cash AssistanceNonCashAssistanceAmtDescription Of Non Cash AsstDescriptionOfNonCashAsstTxtValuation Method UsedValuationMethodUsedDesc
Mobile Eye Clinic for CHILDREN IN BotswanaSub-Saharan Africa500$5,150WIRE
Support for a school fence to support tree plantingSub-Saharan Africa200$13,103WIRE
Support to Zambezi National Park rangers - vehicle fuel and rationsSub-Saharan Africa14N/A$10,438Donated ItemsFMV
Childrens conservation campSub-Saharan Africa50N/A$13,439Camp Food, Supplies, MaterialsFMV
Purchase of solar home lighing systems for Botswana communitySub-Saharan Africa300N/A$43,495Solar Home LightingFMV
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Transfer To Foreign CorpfalseTransferToForeignCorpInd
Interest In Foreign TrustfalseInterestInForeignTrustInd
Foreign Corp OwnershipYes (true)ForeignCorpOwnershipInd
Passive Foreign Investmest CofalsePassiveForeignInvestmestCoInd
Foreign PartnershipfalseForeignPartnershipInd
Boycott CountriesfalseBoycottCountriesInd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Form And Line ReferencePart I Line 2FormAndLineReferenceDesc
ExplanationThe board of directors reviews proposed recipients to determine needs and proposed uses of grant funds. The recipients are then routinely monitored via financial progress reports, to ensure the funds are being used accordingly to accomplish the proposed purpose.ExplanationTxt

Schedule G IRS990ScheduleG

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Email SolicitationsYes (X)EmailSolicitationsInd
In Person SolicitationsYes (X)InPersonSolicitationsInd
Solicitation Of Non Govt GrantsYes (X)SolicitationOfNonGovtGrantsInd
Special Fundraising EventsYes (X)SpecialFundraisingEventsInd
Agrmt Prof Fundraising ActyYes (true)AgrmtProfFundraisingActyInd

Fundraiser Activity Info FundraiserActivityInfoGrp (2 entries)

Address Line1USAddress/AddressLine1TxtCityUSAddress/CityNmState AbbreviationUSAddress/StateAbbreviationCdZIPUSAddress/ZIPCdActivityActivityTxtFundraiser Control Of FundsFundraiserControlOfFundsIndRetained By ContractorRetainedByContractorAmt
Lone Oak LLC
59 Ridge RoadNorwalkCT06853Grant Writing and Consultingfalse$6,000
Katalyst Consulting
266 Dartmouth RoadSt AugustineFL32086Grant Writing and Consultingfalse$34,590
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Retained By Contractors$40,590TotalRetainedByContractorsAmt

Schedule I IRS990ScheduleI

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Grant Records MaintainedYes (true)GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Recipient Table RecipientTable (2 entries)

Address Line1USAddress/AddressLine1TxtCityUSAddress/CityNmState AbbreviationUSAddress/StateAbbreviationCdZIPUSAddress/ZIPCdRecipient EINRecipientEINIRC SectionIRCSectionDescCash GrantCashGrantAmtPurpose Of GrantPurposeOfGrantTxt
Bushlife Conservacy
216 F Street Suite 112DavidCA95616814694167501c3$10,000Project Ranger grant to provide matching funds for Mana East ranger station in Mana Pools
Global Conservation
PO Box 29278San FranciscoCA94129474042992501c3$36,000Big Cats Initiative grant to support Uganda Conservation Foundation in Kidepo National Park via Global Conservation
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Other Org2TotalOtherOrgCnt

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Form And Line ReferencePart I Line 2FormAndLineReferenceDesc
ExplanationThe board of directors reviews proposed recipients to determine needs and proposed uses of assistance. The recipients are then routinely monitored to ensure the assistance is being used accordingly to accomplish the proposed purpose.ExplanationTxt

Schedule O IRS990ScheduleO

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (9 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDescExplanationExplanationTxt
Form 990, Part III, Line 4dProgram Service Expenses 43,906, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Communities Earth Academy Conservation is only successful when communities living alongside wildlife and protected areas are afforded opportunities to interact with, learn, and benefit from those conserved areas. In Ngamiland, in the upper reaches of the Okavango Delta, there are communities we care deeply about, and support in their journey from poverty to prosperity, with strong links to the environment. In support of that community, the foundation launched the Great Plains Earth Academy to provide personal community enrichment opportunities. Leveraging the resources of Great Plains, the government of Botswana, and local public and private partnerships, the Great Plains Earth Academy targets to provide vocational training and supplemental education witha conservation and tourism focus to youth and adults living alongside Botswanas Okavango Delta. The goals of the Earth Academy are to improve participants understanding of their local environment and wildlife, promote conservation and sustainability, and invest in the skill and capacity of the local community and workforce.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4dProgram Service Expenses 87,401, Grants and allocations 43,495, Revenue 25,972 Solar Mamas was developed to address the lack of economic opportunities and deficit of electricity in communities in rural Ngamiland, Botswana. GPF sponsored nine women to leave their villages in Botswana to attend a five-month solar power training program in India through Barefoot College International. They each returned home with the skills to install and maintain solar home lightning systems - empowered to establish and run a business and provide sustaninable energy for their communities. The project aims to supply equipment for the Solar Mamas to electrify 950 rural households in this remote region where only 35 of households are electrified, improving thousands of lives, Solar is a more sustainable energy source than parrafin, candles, or firewood which are dangerous and create harmful emissions and is a natural deterrent to wildlife in this game-dense area, keeping wild animals at bay and alerting communities to their presence. The project aims to increase community-wide educational and economic activity after dark and advance gender equality by supporting women entrepreneur
Form 990, Part III, Line 4dProgram Service Expenses 112,906, Grants and allocations 69,000, Revenue 205,833 Big Cats The Foundation funds multiple projects aimed at preserving land for big cats and reducing human-wildlife conflict. Working with local communities and wildlife experts, these programs support strategies for humans and wildlife to coexist. The Great Plains Big Cats Initiative BCI supports projects aimed at preventing and reversing the decline of big cats. We are looking for good ideas that we can help scale. Past grantees of BCI have included initiatives like the Maasai Olympics and communal cattle herding workshops which tackle human-lion conflict and build bridges between communities and wildlife. Projects can be in any big cat population range land - inside protected areas or outside. The objective is clear - reverse the downard trend of big cats.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4dProgram Service Expenses 57,986, Grants and allocations 14,080, Revenue 312,433 Female Rangers As our work with Project Ranger has made abundantly clear, conservation areas need boots and eyes and ears on the ground. At the same time, a central mission within the foundation is empowering women. These were the inspirations behind the foundations Female Ranger units. These all-female units will act as natural resource monitors, gathering essential data about the areas they patrol and will act as early detection forces against illegal wildlife crime. Hiring female wildlife and natural resource monitors builds their capacity as individuals and empowers the communities they represent. The units also offer opportunities to shift gender sterotypes, empower vulnerable women, and establish strong female role models for young girls. The long-term conservation impact of this project is equally powerful female rangers will help foster the community buy-in necessary to preserve AFricas most precious biodiversity. The inaugural all-women unit began their training in 2022 in Botswana and additional teams will be trained and activated in both Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4dProgram Service Expenses 45,481, Grants and allocations 1,575, Revenue 0 Elephant Conservation Great Plains on-going and historical work on elephants has emphasized preserving land and migratory corridors. This has included areas liek the Mbirikani Group Ranch, home to Great Plains ol Donyo Lodge and some of Kenyas last Super Tuskers as well as the Selinda Reserve in Botswana where Great Plains ended hunting nearly 15 years ago. Our Project Ranger grantees are working tirelessly to protect elephants across the continent and it is time for us to do what we can for elephants in otehr regions as well. In 2022, we launched our first effort to translocate elephants ona large scale, starting in Zimbabwe. 101 elephants are now free in the Sapi Reserve, with a collar on each herd matriarch, giving us an uprecedented opportunity not only to protect individual animals but also to research, learn and contribute to the body of knowledge around successful elephant translocations. We are developing mapping of elephant ranges now to understand where we can accomodate elephants in a rewilding program on a very large scale.
Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11bThe organization reviews the 990 form at a board meeting prior to submitting to the IRS.
Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12cThe organization enforced compliance with its conflict of interest policy by reviewing it periodically at board meetings.
Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.
Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a 15bThe organization uses approval by the board to establish compensation packages for its employees.

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