NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: Form 990, tax year 2019

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Organization: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (EIN 53-0193519)
Tax period: 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Filed: 2020-07-10
IRS object ID: 202001929349301205
Schema version: 2019v5.0
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Every field in the e-filed return. Faint text is the IRS element name, for citing.

Return header
Form 990
Schedule A
Schedule B
Schedule D
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Schedule G
Schedule I
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Schedule O
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Return	2020-07-10T08:30:23-05:00	ReturnTs
Tax Period End	2019-12-31	TaxPeriodEndDt

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Filer Filer

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Form 990 IRS990

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Total Assets EOY	$1,655,505,558	TotalAssetsEOYAmt
Total Liabilities BOY	$136,052,039	TotalLiabilitiesBOYAmt
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Mission	To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.	MissionDesc
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Grant	$3,624,113	GrantAmt
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Desc	STORYTELLING AND OUTREACH The Storytelling and Outreach programs include: The National Geographic museum exhibits, the museum store, live lectures, impact video, website, social media, and marketing. Storytelling and Outreach program descriptions continued on Sch. O.	Desc

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Desc	SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH & EXPLORATION We believe that advancing understanding through education and empowerment provides the greatest hope for addressing the enormous challenges of the 21st century. In the upcoming years, NGS will focus the full complement of the organization's assets and strengths on a limited number of impact-driving priorities. These Impact Initiatives focus on understanding who we are, the impact we are having on the planet, the importance of valuing and protecting species and ecosystems, the accelerating threat of climate change, and the need to lower human consumption. Scientific Research Initiatives/Program descriptions continued on Sch. O	Desc

Prog Srvc Accom Acty3 ProgSrvcAccomActy3Grp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Expense	$20,514,894	ExpenseAmt
Grant	$2,475,397	GrantAmt
Revenue	$3,036,127	RevenueAmt
Desc	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS The National Geographic Education team believes that young people, and the educators who reach them, are key to addressing the planet's most pressing problems. We support this idea through a strategy based on creating communities to give youth and teachers voice, supporting movements for solution finding, designing and distributing game changing tools for classrooms, and using NGS's convening power to leverage our influence to build the field of geography and create the conditions for change. National Geographic's Education programs offer community and leadership programs to educators by building community, providing grants to educators, and through two Fellow programs. Training and certification opportunities are provided to educators through the Nat Geo Educator Certification Program, Geo-Inquiry Process training, grants to the Alliance Network for Geographic Education, and attendance at national professional educator conferences. We provide classroom materials through the free educational website natgeoed.org, the digital connection Explorer Classroom program, Giant Traveling Maps, the K-5 nonfiction reading program, Explorer magazine, and through the Society's education partner, Cengage Learning. The National Geographic Education program also offers student experiences, which include the National Geographic Bee, GeoChallenge, and Student Matinees. The Resource Library features free resources for educators that are aligned to the content and pedagogy standards they must meet, but do this through the lens of NGS explorers, scientists, storytellers, conservationists, and technologists. We feature people and places from around the world, with an emphasis on human involvement in a changing planet. Major topics include geography, social studies, earth, life, physical science, technology, and culture. In 2019, we developed 494 new individual resources to cover many of the topics middle students (grades 6, 7, and 8) encounter, and offer an inside look at the most interesting people and places from all over the globe. These resources include long and short-form nonfiction articles, videos, photographs, maps, GeoStories, infographics, and assessments, and are offered up in themed collections. In 2019 we also developed a series of nine 2-4 week Project Based Learning (PBL) teaching units aimed at targeting common curricula taught across the US, but infusing it with NGS explorers, data, adventures, and media to engage students at a deeper level. In 2019, the Resource Library served 4,800 pieces of content in 24.5 million pageviews to more than 4.8 million unique users. Explorer Classroom digitally connects classrooms directly with National Geographic Explorers in the field for a real-time, unfiltered experience. The program aims to show students that science, exploration, and conservation are alive outside of their textbooks and it introduces them to explorers doing critical work in the field, gathering important data, exploring new places, and satisfying their curiosity about the world. The program connects students with scientists, photographers, and filmmakers. Programs are offered on monthly themes, such as Women in Science and Oceans. Programs are offered on monthly themes, such as Endangered Species, Ocean Plastics, and Extreme Environments. In 2019 we offered 112 Explorer Classroom programs, and reached 100,000 students with the ability to interact with explorers, scientists, archaeologists, adventurers, and other experts in real time. National Geographic Giant Maps offers 51 state maps plus DC (ranging from 21' x 14' to 21' x 17') and 7 continental maps (average size 25' x 30' of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, the Pacific, and the Solar System) for sale to the education market. The vinyl floor maps were designed using the expertise of National Geographic's cartographic division and research on elementary spatial thinking. Maps of the continents and Pacific Ocean are designed for K-8 students, and the Solar System Map is intended for K-12 students. State Giant Maps are designed for third-and-fourth-grade state studies. Each map includes free, downloadable activities that can be used with the map. In 2019, the second full year of operations and sales, 307 maps were sold to 206 schools and school districts reaching approximately 30,000 students. Explorer magazine is a K-5/6 classroom subscription with seven issues that arrive throughout the school year. Explorer features authentic, engaging, nonfiction content that showcases the adventures of National Geographic Explorers and adapts their inspiring stories for young minds. The three articles per issue support national standards such as the Common Core ELA Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and the C3 Framework for Social Studies. Each issue includes a full-color, double-sided classroom poster; a free Teacher's guide with lesson plans, blackline masters, and activities for educators; a free projectable PDF for whole-class instruction; and free digital magazines with read-aloud text highlighting, games, embedded videos, animations, and pop-up vocabulary. All Explorer magazines are free of advertising. Subscriptions for 2019 totaled 321,415, of which 13,823 were underwritten by donor support. National Geographic licenses the right to publish K-12 textbooks and English Language Teaching products to Cengage Learning under the National Geographic Learning (NGL) trademark. National Geographic works closely with Cengage to ensure these products maintain the highest quality and inspire learners to explore the world. National Geographic Learning's products center on the unique stories of Society explorers, grantees, and photographers to engage learners. In 2019, National Geographic Learning spotlighted explorers, grantees, and photographers in over 300 editorial features and at over 100 educational events. In 2019, National Geographic Learning reached more than 1.3 million students domestically with Reading, Science, Social Studies, and supplemental materials for the K-12 market and nearly 60 million students of all ages internationally in 115 countries with English Language Teaching (ELT) products. With National Geographic Society's support and investment, National Geographic Learning's K-12 division launched the development of the AP Human Geography program in anicipation of the student book being published in August 2020. Panorama: Reading Through the Lens of Social Studies launched in 2019 as a companion to Panorama: Reading Through the Lens of Science. Additionally, National Geographic Learning published several ELT products in 2019, including Reading Explorer 3/e, Great Writing 5/e, Grammer in Context 6/e, English in Action 3/e, World English 3/e, Critical Thinking, and Explorations, a project-based STEAM course. National Geographic Educator Certification is a free professional development program that recognizes pre-K through 12 formal and informal educators committed to inspiring the next generation of explorers, conservationists, and changemakers. These educators are part of a powerful movement to make the world a better place by empowering students to be informed decision-makers equipped to solve meaningful challenges in their communities and beyond. These educators become part of National Geographic's online educator community, stay connected with National Geographic and each other, and take on leadership roles such as certficiation facilitators, mentors, and advisors and Grosvenor Teacher Fellows. There are three phases to complete certification. Phase 1: educators participate in a 1.5-hour in-person or online workshop rooted in the National Geographic Learning Framework, Phase 2: educators implement two activities with students designed to build their global and geographic competency, Phase 3: educators submit a multimedia capstone project that includes a written reflection, lesson plan, photos of student work, and a 3-5 minute video. In 2019, ~2,000 educators became certified and we piloted the program in Mexico and with afterschool educators.	Desc

Prog Srvc Accom Acty Other ProgSrvcAccomActyOtherGrp

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Desc	In 2019, miscellaneous program activity included a 1-time stock option exercise in an educational cruise-ship partner, an impact investing directive, continuing sustainability initiatives, and a reading room and library open to the public. In 2019, NGS realized $6.7 million in revenue recognition from the exercise of stock options to purchase shares in an educational cruise partner of National Geographic Partners. NGS IMPACT INVESTING The Investment Subcommittee with the approval of the Finance Committee directed the Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) to deploy a portion of the investment fund to impact investments within the guidelines of the total portfolio. The OCIO has the flexibility to invest across asset classes and will be measured against the MSCI All Country World Index (net) over a full market cycle. Impact parameters must demonstrate strong alignment with one or more of NGS' global mission priorities to help protect species-at-risk, better understand human history and culture, and conserve some of our planet's last wild places. Relevant investment strategies may include but are not limited to environmental sustainability, conservation, resource efficiency, cultural diversity, and education. 2019 SUSTAINABILITY The National Geographic Society remains committed to operating more sustainably in its own facilities and in its expectations of suppliers, vendors, and partners. The Society's headquarters became the first LEED-EB certified buildings (2003), and, through ongoing tracking of energy usage, maintenance activities, waste, office and building supplies, and renovation activity the Society has maintained continuous LEED-EB certification, rising from silver to gold in 2009. In building renovations completed in 2019, existing-building LEED considerations were taken into account throughout the process. The renovated spaces added daylight harvesting and the 17th St building switched from mainly T8 to LED lighting - reducing mercury content and increasing energy savings. The renovation also allowed the 17th St building to add independent HVAC controls enabling half floors to be powered on or off rather than necessitating an entire floor being conditioned when only a small space is in use. All the new carpet installed was Interface, renowned for its recycled content . Construction teams were tasked with detailed attention to recycling as much construction waste as possible, including old carpet and ceiling tiles recycled with their original manufacturers. All renovation purchasing is being applied toward the Society's 7th LEED certification. Sustainability goals The Society has adopted a Corporate Responsibility Policy that it shares with employees, suppliers, vendors, and partners. In 2019 a joint Sustainability Governance Committee was formed with National Geographic Society and National Geographic Partners was formed to continually evaluate, update, and further corporate responsibility policies and goals. The Society also continues to work toward four core company-wide sustainability goals: * to become a carbon neutral company * to work toward zero landfill waste * to practice wise resource stewardship * to have an engaged and healthy workforce Becoming a carbon neutral company The society performs an annual carbon assessment of its Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon emissions. The goal is to quantify carbon emissions from Society activities, reduce such emissions as much as possible, and offset emissions that cannot be eliminated. The Society purchases RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) to offset all the electrical usage of its owned buildings and leased space. Offsets also are purchased for emissions at Society-owned buildings and leased space and business travel emissions. Day to day operations are continually evaluated and improved to seek maximum energy efficiency. Sending zero waste to the landfill The Society seeks to reduce waste produced at its headquarters and to reuse, recycle or compost as much as possible. Employees and tenants share office supplies in communal copy rooms, a large recycling area, and regular building Swap Meets to reduce the need to purchase new office supplies, packaging material, furniture, and more. Employees, tenants and guests are urged to use reusable dishware and refill bottles at water fountains rather than use disposable containers and utensils. Furniture, equipment, supplies, and Nat Geo products that can't be used at the headquarters are offered for re-use to local nonprofits, schools, museums, and artists. Recycling and composting is encouraged on every floor with centralized waste centers located through the buildings for employees, tenants and guests. Recycling and upcycling streams include paper, metals, glass, plastics, electronics, plastic film, plastic bags, and construction materials. Practicing the wise use of resources Paper suppliers to the Society are asked to provide paper from certified forestry sources and never from old-growth or high-conservation-value designated forests and to never provide paper bleached with elemental chlorine. National Geographic Society activities and services are to be legally and ethically conducted by treating employees, environments, and cultures with respect. Suppliers who provide manufacturing services to the Society are expected to follow Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production principles as defined by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) - including such measures as reusing waste, process modification, and the awareness and reduction of hazardous materials use. Only green-e certified cleaning products and low or non-VOC paints are used in the Society's headquarters. In addition, many of the building materials used in the Society are made from recycled material. Water Restoration Certificates are purchased to offset water usage in the DC headquarters. Butterfly gardens and beehives on the headquarters grounds and rooftop support endangered species and educational efforts. Meatless Monday discounts are offered to all employees, tenants, and guests to promote consumption of delicious, nutritious, yet less resource intensive foods. The type of supplies purchased for use at headquarters and the disposal of all items is tracked for LEED-EB, ensuring ongoing improvement in sustainable purchasing and landfill diversion. In conjunction with the National Geographic Plastic or Planet? Initiative, the Society has made a special effort to remove single-use plastic waste and unnecessary plastic at headquarters. Special event badges and parking tags have been changed from plastic to paper. All staff kitchens stock reusable dishware and utensils. Coffee makers and bottleless water coolers with CO2 in each kitchen allows staff to fill reusable mugs and bottles. In the Cafeteria, straws are paper and all to-go food packaging except for one windowed box and some pre-packaged snacks are compostable. Some snacks are provided in returnable glass containers for a deposit. Bottled water is provided in recyclable metal bottles. A supply chain audit was completed in 2019 and multiple suppliers and National Geographic teams are working on plastic pollution free ideas and solutions for their businesses. Continued on Sch. O Other Miscellaneous Programs.	Desc

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States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	NC	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	ND	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	OH	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	OK	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	OR	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	PA	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	RI	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	SC	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	SD	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	TN	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	TX	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	UT	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	VT	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	VA	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	AR	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	WA	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	WV	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	WI	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
States Where Copy Of Return Is Fld	WY	StatesWhereCopyOfReturnIsFldCd
Upon Request	Yes (X)	UponRequestInd

Books In Care Of Detail BooksInCareOfDetail

Business Name BusinessName

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1	MICHAEL COLE	BusinessNameLine1Txt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Phone	2028073092	PhoneNum

US Address USAddress

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Address Line1	1145 17TH ST NW	AddressLine1Txt
City	WASHINGTON	CityNm
State Abbreviation	DC	StateAbbreviationCd
ZIP	200364688	ZIPCd

Form990 Part VII Section A Form990PartVIISectionAGrp (37 entries)

TitleTitleTxt	Average Hours Per WeekAverageHoursPerWeekRt	Individual Trustee Or DirectorIndividualTrusteeOrDirectorInd	OfficerOfficerInd	Reportable Comp From OrgReportableCompFromOrgAmt	Reportable Comp From Rltd OrgReportableCompFromRltdOrgAmt	Other CompensationOtherCompensationAmt	Key EmployeeKeyEmployeeInd	Highest Compensated EmployeeHighestCompensatedEmployeeInd	Former Ofcr Director TrusteeFormerOfcrDirectorTrusteeInd
Tracy R Wolstencroft
PRESIDENT & CEO	45.0	Yes (X)	Yes (X)	$783,788	$0	$28,324
Afsaneh Beschloss
Trustee	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
ALEXANDRA GROSVENOR ELLER
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Angel Cabrera
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
ANTHONY A WILLIAMS
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Beth Comstock
Trustee	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
BRENDAN P BECHTEL
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
DR PETER RAVEN
TRUSTEE	8.0	Yes (X)		$70,000	$0	$0
EDWARD ROSKI JR
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
FREDERICK J RYAN JR
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
GEORGE MUNOZ
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Jack Dangermond
Trustee	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
JANE LUBCHENCO
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
JEAN CASE
Chairman	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Katherine Bradley
Vice Chairman	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Kevin J Maroni
Trustee	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Lyndon Rive
Trustee	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Mark Moore
Trustee	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
MICHAEL BONSIGNORE
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Nancy Pfund
Trustee	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
Strive Masiyiwa
TRUSTEE	4.0	Yes (X)		$0	$0	$0
ANGELO M GRIMA
EVP & GENERAL COUNSEL/CORP. SEC.	45.0		Yes (X)	$394,295	$0	$34,816
MICHAEL J COLE
SVP/CONTROLLER/ASST. TREASURER	45.0		Yes (X)	$312,321	$0	$30,185
MICHAEL ULICA
PRESIDENT/COO/TREASURER	45.0		Yes (X)	$660,528	$0	$34,207
TARA BUNCH
Chief Administrative Officer	45.0		Yes (X)	$378,265	$0	$27,970
AMY KREIDER
CHIEF MEDIA & PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER	45.0			$260,325	$0	$10,138	Yes (X)
EMMA CARRASCO
CHIEF MARKETING & ENGAGEMENT/SVP GLOBAL STRATEGY	45.0			$456,505	$0	$22,162	Yes (X)
Jonathan Baillie
Chief Scientist/EVP Science & Exploration	45.0			$452,769	$0	$383,937	Yes (X)
Vicki Phillips
EVP & Chief Education Officer	45.0			$369,147	$0	$13,207	Yes (X)
Alex Moen
VP Explorers Program	45.0			$264,798	$0	$37,331		Yes (X)
CHRISTOPHER JOHNS
Director Executive, Yellowstone Project	45.0			$518,777	$0	$12,607		Yes (X)
Enric Sala
Explorer in Residence	45.0			$343,673	$0	$19,585		Yes (X)
Kaitlin Yarnall
Chief Storytelling Officer & SVP	45.0			$275,533	$0	$27,052		Yes (X)
Robert Bernard
Global Head of Strategic Partnerships	45.0			$379,214	$0	$223,044		Yes (X)
FRANK BORMAN
TRUSTEE EMERITUS				$13,000	$0	$0			Yes (X)
Gary E Knell
CEO & President	4.0			$18,467	$0	$0			Yes (X)
Leora Hanser
SVP Partnerships	45.0			$288,493	$0	$0			Yes (X)

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Reportable Comp From Org	$6,239,898	TotalReportableCompFromOrgAmt
Tot Reportable Comp Rltd Org	$0	TotReportableCompRltdOrgAmt
Total Other Compensation	$904,565	TotalOtherCompensationAmt
Indiv Rcvd Greater Than100 K	152	IndivRcvdGreaterThan100KCnt
Former Ofcr Employees Listed	Yes (true)	FormerOfcrEmployeesListedInd
Total Comp Greater Than150 K	Yes (true)	TotalCompGreaterThan150KInd
Compensation From Other Srcs	Yes (true)	CompensationFromOtherSrcsInd

Contractor Compensation ContractorCompensationGrp (5 entries)

Address Line1ContractorAddress/USAddress/AddressLine1Txt	CityContractorAddress/USAddress/CityNm	State AbbreviationContractorAddress/USAddress/StateAbbreviationCd	ZIPContractorAddress/USAddress/ZIPCd	ServicesServicesDesc	CompensationCompensationAmt	Address Line1ContractorAddress/ForeignAddress/AddressLine1Txt	CityContractorAddress/ForeignAddress/CityNm	CountryContractorAddress/ForeignAddress/CountryCd	Foreign PostalContractorAddress/ForeignAddress/ForeignPostalCd	Address Line2ContractorAddress/USAddress/AddressLine2Txt
James G Davis Construction Corporation
12530 Parklawn Dr	Rockville	MD	20852	Building Contractor	$36,341,348
Digital Velocity Partners LLC
				IT Services/Consulting	$2,687,966	10 Glebe Place	London	UK	SW35LB
Hickok Cole Architects Inc
1023 31st St NW	Washington	DC	20007	Architecture Services/Consulting	$2,119,437
Celerity IT LLC
8401 Greensboro Drive	Mclean	VA	22102	IT Services/Consulting	$1,900,903					Suite 500
Marsh & Mclennan Agency LLC
360 Hamilton Avenue Suite 930	White Plains	NY	10601	Insurance/Risk Management	$1,755,317

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Cntrct Rcvd Greater Than100 K	165	CntrctRcvdGreaterThan100KCnt
Government Grants	$88,833	GovernmentGrantsAmt
All Other Contributions	$33,413,291	AllOtherContributionsAmt
Noncash Contributions	$248,844	NoncashContributionsAmt
Total Contributions	$33,502,124	TotalContributionsAmt

Program Service Revenue ProgramServiceRevenueGrp (4 entries)

DescDesc	BusinessBusinessCd	Total Revenue ColumnTotalRevenueColumnAmt	Related Or Exempt Func IncomeRelatedOrExemptFuncIncomeAmt
Storytelling & Outreach	900004	$5,137,107	$5,137,107
Education	900004	$3,036,127	$3,036,127
Scientific Research & Exploration	900004	$248,345	$248,345
Other misc. programs	900004	$7,084,120	$7,084,120

Total Oth Program Service Rev TotalOthProgramServiceRevGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Revenue Column	$0	TotalRevenueColumnAmt
Related Or Exempt Func Income	$0	RelatedOrExemptFuncIncomeAmt
Unrelated Business Revenue	$0	UnrelatedBusinessRevenueAmt
Exclusion	$0	ExclusionAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Program Service Revenue	$15,505,699	TotalProgramServiceRevenueAmt

Investment Income InvestmentIncomeGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Revenue Column	$13,127,308	TotalRevenueColumnAmt
Unrelated Business Revenue	$250,767	UnrelatedBusinessRevenueAmt
Exclusion	$12,876,541	ExclusionAmt

Royalties Revenue RoyaltiesRevenueGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Revenue Column	$15,769,187	TotalRevenueColumnAmt
Exclusion	$15,769,187	ExclusionAmt

Gross Rents GrossRentsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Real	$15,315,907	RealAmt

Less Rental Expenses LessRentalExpensesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Real	$14,895,892	RealAmt

Rental Income Or Loss RentalIncomeOrLossGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Real	$420,015	RealAmt
Personal	$0	PersonalAmt

Net Rental Income Or Loss NetRentalIncomeOrLossGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Revenue Column	$420,015	TotalRevenueColumnAmt
Exclusion	$420,015	ExclusionAmt

Gross Amount Sales Assets GrossAmountSalesAssetsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Securities	$287,942,000	SecuritiesAmt

Less Cost Oth Basis Sales Expnss LessCostOthBasisSalesExpnssGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Securities	$261,572,719	SecuritiesAmt

Gain Or Loss GainOrLossGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Securities	$26,369,281	SecuritiesAmt
Other	$0	OtherAmt

Net Gain Or Loss Investments NetGainOrLossInvestmentsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Revenue Column	$26,369,281	TotalRevenueColumnAmt
Exclusion	$26,369,281	ExclusionAmt

Miscellaneous Revenue MiscellaneousRevenueGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Revenue Column	$0	TotalRevenueColumnAmt
Related Or Exempt Func Income	$0	RelatedOrExemptFuncIncomeAmt
Unrelated Business Revenue	$0	UnrelatedBusinessRevenueAmt
Exclusion	$0	ExclusionAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Other Revenue Total	$0	OtherRevenueTotalAmt

Total Revenue TotalRevenueGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Revenue Column	$104,693,614	TotalRevenueColumnAmt
Related Or Exempt Func Income	$15,505,699	RelatedOrExemptFuncIncomeAmt
Unrelated Business Revenue	$250,767	UnrelatedBusinessRevenueAmt
Exclusion	$55,435,024	ExclusionAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Info In Schedule O Part IX	Yes (X)	InfoInScheduleOPartIXInd

Grants To Domestic Orgs GrantsToDomesticOrgsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$7,320,555	TotalAmt
Program Services	$7,320,555	ProgramServicesAmt

Grants To Domestic Individuals GrantsToDomesticIndividualsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$4,814,752	TotalAmt
Program Services	$4,814,752	ProgramServicesAmt

Foreign Grants ForeignGrantsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$12,647,723	TotalAmt
Program Services	$12,647,723	ProgramServicesAmt

Benefits To Members BenefitsToMembersGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$0	TotalAmt
Program Services	$0	ProgramServicesAmt

Comp Current Ofcr Directors CompCurrentOfcrDirectorsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$5,136,599	TotalAmt
Program Services	$2,912,908	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$2,145,920	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$77,771	FundraisingAmt

Comp Disqual Persons CompDisqualPersonsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$0	TotalAmt
Program Services	$0	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$0	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$0	FundraisingAmt

Other Salaries And Wages OtherSalariesAndWagesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$37,842,992	TotalAmt
Program Services	$28,926,143	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$8,055,489	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$861,360	FundraisingAmt

Pension Plan Contributions PensionPlanContributionsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$1,314,463	TotalAmt
Program Services	$745,417	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$549,144	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$19,902	FundraisingAmt

Other Employee Benefits OtherEmployeeBenefitsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$6,590,323	TotalAmt
Program Services	$4,422,426	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$1,579,646	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$588,251	FundraisingAmt

Payroll Taxes PayrollTaxesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$3,283,623	TotalAmt
Program Services	$1,862,106	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$1,371,801	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$49,716	FundraisingAmt

Fees For Services Legal FeesForServicesLegalGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$686,742	TotalAmt
Program Services	$773	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$685,969	ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Fees For Services Accounting FeesForServicesAccountingGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$480,844	TotalAmt
Program Services	$0	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$465,265	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$15,579	FundraisingAmt

Fees For Services Prof Fundraising FeesForServicesProfFundraising

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$1,248,176	TotalAmt
Fundraising	$1,248,176	FundraisingAmt

Fees For Srvc Invst Mgmnt Fees FeesForSrvcInvstMgmntFeesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$9,662,332	TotalAmt
Management And General	$9,662,332	ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Fees For Services Other FeesForServicesOtherGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$41,904,639	TotalAmt
Program Services	$40,560,394	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$0	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$1,344,245	FundraisingAmt

Advertising AdvertisingGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$2,149,792	TotalAmt
Program Services	$1,736,197	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$100	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$413,495	FundraisingAmt

Office Expenses OfficeExpensesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$2,798,738	TotalAmt
Program Services	$2,481,157	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$15,908	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$301,673	FundraisingAmt

Information Technology InformationTechnologyGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$5,298,152	TotalAmt
Program Services	$5,034,499	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$16,709	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$246,944	FundraisingAmt

Royalties RoyaltiesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$882,917	TotalAmt
Program Services	$859,241	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$21,296	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$2,380	FundraisingAmt

Occupancy OccupancyGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$5,012,810	TotalAmt
Program Services	$1,509,000	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$3,443,810	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$60,000	FundraisingAmt

Travel TravelGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$6,019,536	TotalAmt
Program Services	$5,815,812	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$85,051	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$118,673	FundraisingAmt

Conferences Meetings ConferencesMeetingsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$1,421,260	TotalAmt
Program Services	$1,218,769	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$62,972	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$139,519	FundraisingAmt

Interest InterestGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$2,272,872	TotalAmt
Program Services	$341,342	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$1,918,116	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$13,414	FundraisingAmt

Depreciation Depletion DepreciationDepletionGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$6,893,000	TotalAmt
Program Services	$1,304,105	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$5,556,895	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$32,000	FundraisingAmt

Insurance InsuranceGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$1,344,479	TotalAmt
Program Services	$279,393	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$1,065,086	ManagementAndGeneralAmt

Other Expenses OtherExpensesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Desc	Production Expense	Desc
Total	$10,874,794	TotalAmt
Program Services	$10,874,794	ProgramServicesAmt

All Other Expenses AllOtherExpensesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$0	TotalAmt
Program Services	$0	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$0	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$0	FundraisingAmt

Total Functional Expenses TotalFunctionalExpensesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$177,902,113	TotalAmt
Program Services	$135,667,506	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$36,701,509	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$5,533,098	FundraisingAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Joint Costs	Yes (X)	JointCostsInd

Total Joint Costs TotalJointCostsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total	$9,161,793	TotalAmt
Program Services	$5,808,576	ProgramServicesAmt
Management And General	$1,262,284	ManagementAndGeneralAmt
Fundraising	$2,090,933	FundraisingAmt

Cash Non Interest Bearing CashNonInterestBearingGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$48,284,314	BOYAmt
EOY	$59,687,468	EOYAmt

Pledges And Grants Receivable PledgesAndGrantsReceivableGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$4,998,419	BOYAmt
EOY	$9,724,520	EOYAmt

Accounts Receivable AccountsReceivableGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$5,285,730	BOYAmt
EOY	$5,330,658	EOYAmt

Receivables From Officers Etc ReceivablesFromOfficersEtcGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$0	BOYAmt
EOY	$0	EOYAmt

Rcvbl From Disqualified Prsn RcvblFromDisqualifiedPrsnGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$0	BOYAmt
EOY	$0	EOYAmt

Oth Notes Loans Receivable Net OthNotesLoansReceivableNetGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$33,025,000	BOYAmt
EOY	$31,787,718	EOYAmt

Inventories For Sale Or Use InventoriesForSaleOrUseGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$215,885	BOYAmt
EOY	$226,216	EOYAmt

Prepaid Expenses Defrd Charges PrepaidExpensesDefrdChargesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$4,177,674	BOYAmt
EOY	$4,341,023	EOYAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Land Bldg Equip Cost Or Other Bss	$160,691,296	LandBldgEquipCostOrOtherBssAmt
Land Bldg Equip Accum Deprec	$78,918,378	LandBldgEquipAccumDeprecAmt

Land Bldg Equip Basis Net LandBldgEquipBasisNetGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$67,306,118	BOYAmt
EOY	$81,772,918	EOYAmt

Investments Pub Traded Sec InvestmentsPubTradedSecGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$482,211,978	BOYAmt
EOY	$516,834,362	EOYAmt

Investments Other Securities InvestmentsOtherSecuritiesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$885,838,940	BOYAmt
EOY	$924,853,193	EOYAmt

Investments Program Related InvestmentsProgramRelatedGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$0	BOYAmt

Other Assets Total OtherAssetsTotalGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$6,897,111	BOYAmt
EOY	$20,947,482	EOYAmt

Total Assets TotalAssetsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$1,538,241,169	BOYAmt
EOY	$1,655,505,558	EOYAmt

Accounts Payable Accr Expnss AccountsPayableAccrExpnssGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$33,875,992	BOYAmt
EOY	$29,395,897	EOYAmt

Grants Payable GrantsPayableGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$8,439,008	BOYAmt
EOY	$7,449,522	EOYAmt

Deferred Revenue DeferredRevenueGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$2,668,063	BOYAmt
EOY	$3,283,625	EOYAmt

Loans From Officers Directors LoansFromOfficersDirectorsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$0	BOYAmt
EOY	$0	EOYAmt

Unsecured Notes Loans Payable UnsecuredNotesLoansPayableGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
EOY	$53,461,664	EOYAmt

Other Liabilities OtherLiabilitiesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$91,068,976	BOYAmt
EOY	$57,613,203	EOYAmt

Total Liabilities TotalLiabilitiesGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$136,052,039	BOYAmt
EOY	$151,203,911	EOYAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Organization Follows FASB117	Yes (X)	OrganizationFollowsFASB117Ind

No Donor Restriction Net Assets NoDonorRestrictionNetAssetsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$1,247,345,000	BOYAmt
EOY	$1,335,475,647	EOYAmt

Donor Restriction Net Assets DonorRestrictionNetAssetsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$154,844,130	BOYAmt
EOY	$168,826,000	EOYAmt

Total Net Assets Fund Balance TotalNetAssetsFundBalanceGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$1,402,189,130	BOYAmt
EOY	$1,504,301,647	EOYAmt

Tot Liab Net Assets Fund Balance TotLiabNetAssetsFundBalanceGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
BOY	$1,538,241,169	BOYAmt
EOY	$1,655,505,558	EOYAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Info In Schedule O Part XI	Yes (X)	InfoInScheduleOPartXIInd
Reconcilation Revenue Expnss	-$73,208,499	ReconcilationRevenueExpnssAmt
Net Unrlzd Gains Losses Invst	$169,692,147	NetUnrlzdGainsLossesInvstAmt
Other Changes In Net Assets	$5,628,869	OtherChangesInNetAssetsAmt
Method Of Accounting Accrual	Yes (X)	MethodOfAccountingAccrualInd
Accountant Compile Or Review	false	AccountantCompileOrReviewInd
FS Audited	Yes (true)	FSAuditedInd

FS Audited Basis FSAuditedBasisGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Consolidated Basis Fincl Stmt	Yes (X)	ConsolidatedBasisFinclStmtInd

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Audit Committee	Yes (true)	AuditCommitteeInd
Federal Grant Audit Required	false	FederalGrantAuditRequiredInd

Schedule A IRS990ScheduleA

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Publicly Supported Org509a2	Yes (X)	PubliclySupportedOrg509a2Ind

Gifts Grants Contris Rcvd509 GiftsGrantsContrisRcvd509Grp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$28,031,990	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$16,973,959	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$29,820,100	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$30,724,235	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$33,502,124	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$139,052,408	TotalAmt

Gross Receipts Admissions GrossReceiptsAdmissionsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$282,118,316	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$13,136,039	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$9,296,258	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$9,465,912	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$15,505,699	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$329,522,224	TotalAmt

Gross Receipts Non Unrlt Bus GrossReceiptsNonUnrltBusGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$24,448	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Total	$24,448	TotalAmt

Tax Rev Levied Orgnztnl Bnft509 TaxRevLeviedOrgnztnlBnft509Grp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Total	$0	TotalAmt

Govt Furn Srvc Fclts Vl509 GovtFurnSrvcFcltsVl509Grp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Total	$0	TotalAmt

Total509 Total509Grp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$310,174,754	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$30,109,998	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$39,116,358	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$40,190,147	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$49,007,823	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$468,599,080	TotalAmt

Amounts Rcvd Dsqlfy Person AmountsRcvdDsqlfyPersonGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$395,000	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$1,029,988	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$2,160,500	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$866,500	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$120,508	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$4,572,496	TotalAmt

Substantial Contributors Amt SubstantialContributorsAmtGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$0	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$0	TotalAmt

Subst And Dsqlfy Prsns Tot SubstAndDsqlfyPrsnsTotGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$395,000	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$1,029,988	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$2,160,500	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$866,500	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$120,508	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$4,572,496	TotalAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Public Support Total509	$464,026,584	PublicSupportTotal509Amt

Gross Investment Income509 GrossInvestmentIncome509Grp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$66,000,713	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$49,597,243	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$176,577,519	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$103,695,389	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$97,112,402	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$492,983,266	TotalAmt

Post1975 UBTI Post1975UBTIGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$296,887	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$273,756	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$0	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$570,643	TotalAmt

Investment Income And UBTI InvestmentIncomeAndUBTIGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$66,000,713	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$49,597,243	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$176,874,406	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$103,969,145	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$97,112,402	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$493,553,909	TotalAmt

Net Income From Other UBI NetIncomeFromOtherUBIGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year	$0	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$0	TotalAmt

Other Income509 OtherIncome509Grp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$583,828,735	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$24,722,265	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$0	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$0	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$608,551,000	TotalAmt

Total Support Calendar Year TotalSupportCalendarYearGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years	$960,004,202	CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years	$104,429,506	CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years	$215,990,764	CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year	$144,159,292	CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year	$146,120,225	CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total	$1,570,703,989	TotalAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Public Support CY509	0.2954	PublicSupportCY509Pct
Public Support PY509	0.4246	PublicSupportPY509Pct
Investment Income CY	0.3142	InvestmentIncomeCYPct
Investment Income PY	0.2483	InvestmentIncomePYPct
Thirty Thr Pct Suprt Tests PY509	Yes (X)	ThirtyThrPctSuprtTestsPY509Ind

Form990 Schedule A Part VI Form990ScheduleAPartVIGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Form And Line Reference	Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Other Income	FormAndLineReferenceDesc
Explanation	DESCRIPTION - NON-CAPITAL GAIN, COLUMN A - XXX-XX-XXXX.0, COLUMN B - 24722265.0, COLUMN C - , COLUMN D - , COLUMN E - , COLUMN F - XXX-XX-XXXX.0;	ExplanationTxt

Schedule B IRS990ScheduleB

Contributor Information ContributorInformationGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Contributor	RESTRICTED	ContributorNum

Contributor Business Name ContributorBusinessName

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1	RESTRICTED	BusinessNameLine1

Contributor US Address ContributorUSAddress

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Address Line1	RESTRICTED	AddressLine1
Address Line2	RESTRICTED	AddressLine2
City	RESTRICTED	City
State	RESTRICTED	State
ZIP Code	RESTRICTED	ZIPCode

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Contributions	RESTRICTED	TotalContributionsAmt

Schedule D IRS990ScheduleD

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Donor Advised Funds Held	0	DonorAdvisedFundsHeldCnt
Donor Advised Funds Contri	$0	DonorAdvisedFundsContriAmt
Donor Advised Funds Grants	$8,201,448	DonorAdvisedFundsGrantsAmt
Donor Advised Funds Vl EOY	$0	DonorAdvisedFundsVlEOYAmt
Disclosed Org Leg Ctrl	Yes (true)	DisclosedOrgLegCtrlInd
Disclosed For Charitable Prps	Yes (true)	DisclosedForCharitablePrpsInd
Collection Used Pub Exhibition	Yes (X)	CollectionUsedPubExhibitionInd
Coll Used Scholarly Rsrch	Yes (X)	CollUsedScholarlyRsrchInd
Collection Used Preservation	Yes (X)	CollectionUsedPreservationInd
Solicited Assets Sale	false	SolicitedAssetsSaleInd

CY Endwmt Fund CYEndwmtFundGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance	$239,870,015	BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions	$0	ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses	$42,908,132	InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Grants Or Scholarships	$4,964,476	GrantsOrScholarshipsAmt
Other Expenditures	$912,042	OtherExpendituresAmt
Administrative Expenses	$6,212,374	AdministrativeExpensesAmt
End Year Balance	$270,689,255	EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus1 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus1YrEndwmtFundGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance	$271,322,687	BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions	$94,492	ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses	-$13,125,761	InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Grants Or Scholarships	$15,914,493	GrantsOrScholarshipsAmt
Other Expenditures	$605,020	OtherExpendituresAmt
Administrative Expenses	$1,901,890	AdministrativeExpensesAmt
End Year Balance	$239,870,015	EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus2 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus2YrEndwmtFundGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance	$274,276,642	BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions	$92,214	ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses	$45,012,034	InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Grants Or Scholarships	$44,965,082	GrantsOrScholarshipsAmt
Other Expenditures	$2,984,074	OtherExpendituresAmt
Administrative Expenses	$109,047	AdministrativeExpensesAmt
End Year Balance	$271,322,687	EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus3 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus3YrEndwmtFundGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance	$267,324,047	BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions	$256,441	ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses	$13,614,176	InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Grants Or Scholarships	$3,825,459	GrantsOrScholarshipsAmt
Other Expenditures	$2,936,503	OtherExpendituresAmt
Administrative Expenses	$156,060	AdministrativeExpensesAmt
End Year Balance	$274,276,642	EndYearBalanceAmt

CY Minus4 Yr Endwmt Fund CYMinus4YrEndwmtFundGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Beginning Year Balance	$275,446,351	BeginningYearBalanceAmt
Contributions	$175,366	ContributionsAmt
Investment Earnings Or Losses	$4,109,830	InvestmentEarningsOrLossesAmt
Grants Or Scholarships	$8,052,761	GrantsOrScholarshipsAmt
Other Expenditures	$4,151,412	OtherExpendituresAmt
Administrative Expenses	$203,327	AdministrativeExpensesAmt
End Year Balance	$267,324,047	EndYearBalanceAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Board Designated Balance EOY	0.5026	BoardDesignatedBalanceEOYPct
Prmnnt Endowment Balance EOY	0.2759	PrmnntEndowmentBalanceEOYPct
Term Endowment Balance EOY	0.2215	TermEndowmentBalanceEOYPct
Endowments Held Unrelated Org	false	EndowmentsHeldUnrelatedOrgInd
Endowments Held Related Org	false	EndowmentsHeldRelatedOrgInd

Land LandGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis	$2,906,296	OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Book Value	$2,906,296	BookValueAmt

Buildings BuildingsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis	$138,839,744	OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation	$72,544,671	DepreciationAmt
Book Value	$66,295,073	BookValueAmt

Leasehold Improvements LeaseholdImprovementsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis	$1,268,000	OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation	$1,121,873	DepreciationAmt
Book Value	$146,127	BookValueAmt

Equipment EquipmentGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis	$8,727,493	OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation	$3,405,288	DepreciationAmt
Book Value	$5,322,205	BookValueAmt

Other Land Buildings OtherLandBuildingsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis	$8,949,763	OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation	$1,846,546	DepreciationAmt
Book Value	$7,103,217	BookValueAmt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Land Buildings	$81,772,918	TotalBookValueLandBuildingsAmt

Closely Held Equity Interests CloselyHeldEquityInterestsGrp

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Book Value	$101,395,000	BookValueAmt
Method Valuation	F	MethodValuationCd

Other Securities OtherSecuritiesGrp (12 entries)

DescDesc	Book ValueBookValueAmt	Method ValuationMethodValuationCd
HEDGE FUNDS	$417,604,000	F
REAL EST.INVEST.TRUSTS	$4,114,000	F
MONEY MARKET FUNDS	$71,200,000	F
PERPETUAL TRUST	$323,946	C
100% SUB NGSP, Inc.	$162,354,130	C
INVESTMENT - DEFERRED COMPENSATION	$1,896,117	F
MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES	$3,446,000	F
FIXED-INCOME OBLIGATIONS	$111,708,000	F
COMMODITIES	$11,258,000	F
Investment in Private Companies	$0
CASH EQUIVALENT	$12,000,000	F
Other Direct Investments	$27,554,000	C

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Securities	$924,853,193	TotalBookValueSecuritiesAmt

Other Liabilities Org OtherLiabilitiesOrgGrp (7 entries)

DescDesc	AmtAmt
PENSION/POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS	$42,187,909
CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITIES	$10,646,920
DEFERRED COMPENSATION	$1,896,117
SCHOLARSHIPS	$334,346
TRUSTEE EMERITUS PAYABLE	$12,186
Deposits/Tenants	$2,529,325
Due to Affiliate	$6,400

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Liability	$57,613,203	TotalLiabilityAmt
Footnote Text	Yes (X)	FootnoteTextInd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (3 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDesc	ExplanationExplanationTxt
Schedule D, Part III, Line 4 Collections of art - description of collections	The Society's image collection contains illustrations, photographic negatives and digital files taken over the past 130+ years by photographers on assignment for the Society. The museum also maintains artifacts donated to or collected by the Society over its 130+ year history. A rare book collection of approximately 1,300 volumes covering topics such as natural history, polar history and climate, and the history of early travel and exploration is maintained within the Society's research and reference library. This collection is made available to scholars and researchers.
Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 Intended uses of endowment funds	Fund for Exploration--to be used to support research, exploration and conservation. Buffet Funds--to be used to support conservation in Africa and Latin America, as well as all programs for Big Cats conservation. Geography Education Funds--to be used to support geographic education.
Schedule D, Part X, Line 2 FIN 48 (ASC 740) footnote	FIN 48 Audited Footnote Disclosure: The Society is a not-for profit organization incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia and is recognized as exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code, except for income derived from unrelated business activities. The Society recognizes the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not to be sustained. Recognized uncertain income tax positions (none at December 31, 2019 and 2018) are measured at the largest amount that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgement occurred.

Schedule F IRS990ScheduleF

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Grant Records Maintained	Yes (true)	GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Account Activities Outside US AccountActivitiesOutsideUSGrp (27 entries)

RegionRegionTxt	EmployeeEmployeeCnt	Type Of Activities ConductedTypeOfActivitiesConductedTxt	Specific Services ProvidedSpecificServicesProvidedTxt	Region Total ExpendituresRegionTotalExpendituresAmt
Central America and the Caribbean	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$265,368
East Asia and the Pacific	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$677,494
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$5,351,657
Middle East and North Africa	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$7,710
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$1,197,587
Russia and Neighboring States	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$870,725
South America	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$329,768
South Asia	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$1,614,461
Sub-Saharan Africa	0	Program Services	Royalties, fees for service	$925,942
Central America and the Caribbean	0	Grantmaking		$200,816
East Asia and the Pacific	2	Grantmaking		$813,583
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	0	Grantmaking		$3,941,891
Middle East and North Africa	0	Grantmaking		$59,750
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	0	Grantmaking		$1,187,023
Russia and Neighboring States	0	Grantmaking		$197,454
South America	0	Grantmaking		$1,686,160
South Asia	0	Grantmaking		$935,568
Sub-Saharan Africa	1	Grantmaking		$3,625,478
East Asia and the Pacific	0	Investments		$264,099,222
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	0	Investments		$218,203,938
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	0	Investments		$25,328,223
South America	0	Investments		$14,467,603
Central America and the Caribbean	0	Investments		$12,502,282
Middle East and North Africa	0	Investments		$1,477,731
Russia and Neighboring States	0	Investments		$3,083,690
South Asia	0	Investments		$17,502,476
Sub-Saharan Africa	0	Investments		$11,255,554

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Subtotal Offices	0	SubtotalOfficesCnt
Subtotal Employees	2	SubtotalEmployeesCnt
Continuation Total Office	0	ContinuationTotalOfficeCnt
Continuation Total Employee	1	ContinuationTotalEmployeeCnt
Total Office	0	TotalOfficeCnt
Total Employee	3	TotalEmployeeCnt
Subtotal Spent	$19,327,389	SubtotalSpentAmt
Continuation Spent	$572,481,765	ContinuationSpentAmt
Total Spent	$591,809,154	TotalSpentAmt

Grants To Org Outside US GrantsToOrgOutsideUSGrp (145 entries)

RegionRegionTxt	Purpose Of GrantPurposeOfGrantTxt	Cash GrantCashGrantAmt	Manner Of Cash DisbursementMannerOfCashDisbursementTxt	Valuation Method UsedValuationMethodUsedDesc
Central America and the Caribbean	LEX	$29,900	WIRE	FMV
Central America and the Caribbean	Sponsorship	$25,000	WIRE	FMV
Central America and the Caribbean	Standard Grants	$27,060	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Early Career Grants	$9,417	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Early Career Grants	$6,500	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Expand the Field	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Sponsorship	$45,000	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$58,345	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$26,700	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$57,960	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$16,370	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$39,495	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$29,550	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$29,800	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$29,605	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$20,000	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$46,950	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$59,133	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$84,465	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
East Asia and the Pacific	Standard Grants	$15,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Big Cats Initiative	$50,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$9,517	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$7,540	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$9,624	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$5,297	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$8,650	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Early Career Grants	$5,100	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Illegal Wildlife Trade	$93,056	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Making a Case for Nature	$5,514	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.	$22,298	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Photo Ark	$480,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Sponsorship	$20,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Sponsorship	$20,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Sponsorship	$100,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Sponsorship	$45,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$15,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$39,948	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$58,690	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$27,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$32,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$50,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$28,048	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$25,319	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$25,160	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$28,010	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$29,283	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$29,107	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$29,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$29,880	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$20,018	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$37,146	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$127,325	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$64,938	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$59,519	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$69,300	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$17,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$28,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$61,607	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$117,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$35,436	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$13,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$134,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$99,108	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$94,000	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$17,122	WIRE	FMV
Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	Standard Grants	$14,600	WIRE	FMV
Middle East and North Africa	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
Middle East and North Africa	Standard Grants	$29,750	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Early Career Grants	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Early Career Grants	$9,597	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Early Career Grants	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Early Career Grants	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Early Career Grants	$8,350	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	LEX	$70,000	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Sponsorship	$150,000	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Standard Grants	$23,338	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Standard Grants	$29,960	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Standard Grants	$22,545	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Standard Grants	$15,000	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Standard Grants	$117,221	WIRE	FMV
North America (Canada & Mexico only)	Standard Grants	$41,050	WIRE	FMV
South America	LEX	$50,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	LEX	$120,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	LEX	$120,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	Sponsorship	$100,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	Sponsorship	$25,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$31,909	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$28,400	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$24,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$28,900	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$29,985	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$12,188	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$29,921	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$71,000	WIRE	FMV
South America	Standard Grants	$50,000	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	EDU Youth Leadership Inst.	$25,018	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.	$9,240	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.	$64,775	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.	$5,650	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.	$13,286	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.	$14,840	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Sponsorship	$20,000	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Sponsorship	$45,000	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$36,093	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$28,400	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$55,327	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$28,357	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$44,725	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$29,870	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$73,996	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
South Asia	Standard Grants	$40,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Early Career Grants	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Early Career Grants	$7,767	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Explorers In Residence	$100,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Lee Berger Hominin Expl.	$509,572	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	LWP Partnerships	$1,000,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Okavango Wilderness Proj.	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Sponsorship	$25,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Sponsorship	$8,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$56,731	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$29,200	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$70,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$28,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$104,324	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$86,100	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$30,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$50,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$21,571	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$100,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$39,500	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$45,764	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$75,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$96,707	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$29,980	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Standard Grants	$100,000	WIRE	FMV
Sub-Saharan Africa	Storytelling Fellows	$75,000	WIRE	FMV

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total501c3 Org	145	Total501c3OrgCnt
Total Other Org	0	TotalOtherOrgCnt

Foreign Individuals Grants ForeignIndividualsGrantsGrp (25 entries)

Type Of AssistanceTypeOfAssistanceTxt	RegionRegionTxt	RecipientRecipientCnt	Cash GrantCashGrantAmt	Manner Of Cash DisbursementMannerOfCashDisbursementTxt	Valuation Method UsedValuationMethodUsedDesc
Early Career Grants	Central America and the Caribbean	2	$18,870	WIRE	FMV
Early Career Grants	East Asia and the Pacific	3	$26,492	WIRE	FMV
Early Career Grants	Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	24	$222,391	WIRE	FMV
Early Career Grants	North America (Canada & Mexico only)	11	$94,166	WIRE	FMV
Early Career Grants	South America	20	$175,019	WIRE	FMV
Early Career Grants	South Asia	9	$75,508	WIRE	FMV
Early Career Grants	Sub-Saharan Africa	13	$109,121	WIRE	FMV
Archaeology R&D	Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	1	$25,246	WIRE	FMV
Archaeology R&D	North America (Canada & Mexico only)	1	$35,000	WIRE	FMV
Expand the Field	East Asia and the Pacific	1	$6,000	WIRE	FMV
Expand the Field	South America	3	$20,519	WIRE	FMV
Perpetual Planet/Mtn. Exped.	South Asia	2	$20,100	WIRE	FMV
Sponsorship	Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	1	$10,000	WIRE	FMV
Sponsorship	North America (Canada & Mexico only)	1	$12,500	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	Central America and the Caribbean	2	$99,986	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	East Asia and the Pacific	5	$136,801	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	42	$1,265,344	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	North America (Canada & Mexico only)	13	$498,296	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	Russia and Neighboring States	2	$67,117	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	South America	23	$739,319	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	South Asia	8	$275,383	WIRE	FMV
Standard Grants	Sub-Saharan Africa	17	$674,391	WIRE	FMV
Storytelling Fellows	Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland)	1	$31,750	WIRE	FMV
Storytelling Fellows	Russia and Neighboring States	2	$130,337	WIRE	FMV
Storytelling Fellows	Sub-Saharan Africa	1	$103,750	WIRE	FMV

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Transfer To Foreign Corp	Yes (true)	TransferToForeignCorpInd
Interest In Foreign Trust	false	InterestInForeignTrustInd
Foreign Corp Ownership	Yes (true)	ForeignCorpOwnershipInd
Passive Foreign Investmest Co	Yes (true)	PassiveForeignInvestmestCoInd
Foreign Partnership	Yes (true)	ForeignPartnershipInd
Boycott Countries	false	BoycottCountriesInd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (3 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDesc	ExplanationExplanationTxt
Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Procedures for monitoring use of grant funds	The National Geographic Society FUNDS GRANTS ACROSS THE FIELDS OF CONSERVATION, EDUCATION, RESEARCH, STORYTELLING AND TECHNOLOGY. GRANT PROPOSALS ARE REVIEWED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STAFF EXPERTS, AN EXTERNAL PANEL OF GLOBAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS AND AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WHO RECOMENDS GRANTS FOR APPROVAL. When outside expertise is required to meet the impact objectives of a specific program, we often award grants outside of the grants committee process. Any grants awarded outside of the grants committee pipeline are considered "External Project Funding." Such grants are subject to an internal review process that evaluates the expertise of the grantee, the methodology for executing the work, and the overall contribution to programmatic objectives. Once the grantee is selected, the entire project - including grant funding - is submitted for approval by the NGS senior team through the "Spend Approval Process." Grants approved through this process are subject to reporting requirements above and beyond those required of standard grantees. THE GRANT RECIPENTS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN A GRANT AGREEMENT AND SUBMIT REPORTING INCLUDING A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING OF FUNDS SPENT TO ENSURE THAT THE GRANT FUNDS ARE PROPERLY USED AND ACCOUNTED FOR. THE FOLLOWING IS A DETAILED DESCRIPTION: WHEN A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY GRANT APPLICATION HAS BEEN APPROVED, PAYMENT IS ISSUED ONCE THE SOCIETY HAS RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING COMPLETED, SIGNED DOCUMENTS FROM THE GRANTEE: 1) APPROPRIATE TAX FORM. ALL GRANTEES WHO ARE NOT US CITIZENS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN AND SUBMIT THE APPROPRIATE TAX FORM (FORM W-8) FOR WORK CONDUCTED WHOLLY OUTSIDE THE US. 2) GRANT AGREEMENT. ALL GRANTEES MUST COMPLETE AND SIGN A GRANT AGREEMENT, WHICH INCLUDES DUE DATES FOR RESEARCH REPORTS AND FINANCIAL REPORTS (GENERALLY DUE WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF COMPLETION OF THE FIELD WORK.) BY SIGNING THE GRANT AGREEMENT, THE GRANTEE AGREES TO SUBMIT A FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT AND A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING OF THE GRANT MONIES SPENT BEFORE THE INDICATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE. GRANTEES ALSO CERTIFY TO PARAGRAPHS 16 & 17 (COPIED BELOW) THAT THEY WILL NOT PROMOTE TERRORISM AND WILL COMPLY WITH FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS: 17. CERTIFICATION. BY COUNTERSIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, YOU CERTIFY THAT YOUR ORGANIZATION DOES NOT AND WILL NOT PROMOTE OR ENGAGE IN VIOLENCE OR TERRORISM, NOR WILL YOUR ORGANIZATION MAKE SUB-GRANTS OR OTHER PAYMENTS TO ANY ENTITY THAT ENGAGES IN SUCH ACTIVITIES. 17 U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS. BY COUNTERSIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, I OR GRANTEE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM AWARE OF, AND AGREE TO COMPLY FULLY WITH, U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS THAT GOVERN TRAVEL TO, AND TRANSACTIONS WITH, COUNTRIES SUCH AS CUBA, IRAN, SUDAN, SYRIA, NORTH KOREA, CRIMEA TERRITORY, AND OTHER U.S.-SANCTIONED COUNTRIES, INCLUDING ANY SUCH CONTROLS THAT MAY BE IMPOSED IN THE FUTURE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE GRANT. SPECIFICALLY, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM AWARE OF AND AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY GOVERNING TRAVEL TO AND TRADE WITH COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO U.S. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS (31 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PARTS 500-598) AND ALSO WITH THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (15 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PARTS 730-774). I ALSO AGREE THAT, BEFORE ANY FUNDS ARE DISBURSED UNDER THIS GRANT, I WILL PROVIDE THE SOCIETY WITH COPIES OF ANY AUTHORIZATIONS FROM THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL ("OFAC") NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE GRANT, OR COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE FROM OFAC CONFIRMING THAT NO SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NECESSARY. I ALSO REPRESENT AND WARRANT TO THE SOCIETY THAT IN SEEKING AUTHORIZATIONS FROM OFAC AND/OR CONFIRMATION THAT NO SUCH AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NECESSARY, I FULLY DISCLOSED THE NATURE OF THE GRANT AND ITS PARTICIPANTS AND IDENTIFIED THE SOCIETY AS A SOURCE OF FUNDING. I ALSO AGREE THAT I WILL KEEP ALL NECESSARY RECORDS TO SHOW THAT I HAVE COMPLIED WITH U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS. FINALLY, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY THE SOCIETY TO CONSULT WITH MY OWN LEGAL COUNSEL IN CONNECTION WITH MY OBLIGATIONS UNDER U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS.GRANTEES ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A CERTIFICATION RELATED TO ETHICAL ISSUES AND THAT THE GRANTEE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS;THEY ALSO CERTIFY THAT THEY HAVE THE PROPER PERMITS TO UNDERTAKE THE PROPOSED FIELD RESEARCH IN THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT WILL BE CONDUCTED AND THAT NO IMPROPER PAYMENTS OF ANY VALUE HAVE BEEN MADE DURING THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING SUCH PERMITS. ADDITIONALLY, GRANTEES AFFILIATED WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES OR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ARE SCREENED IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY AND AVOID POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST INVOLVING THE GRANTEE'S OFFICIAL JOB DUTIES AND THE SOCIETY. THE SOCIETY'S FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SYSTEM ALSO REVIEWS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH FINANCIAL SANCTIONS LIST (THE SDN LIST) COMPLIED AND MAINTAINED BY THE U.S. TREASURY UPON NEW VENDOR SET-UP AND PRIOR TO EACH PAYMENT. ONCE PAYMENT IS ISSUED, IF GRANTEES WOULD LIKE TO ALTER THEIR PROPOSED BUDGET IN ANY WAY THEY MUST SUBMIT THEIR REQUEST TO THE PROGRAM OFFICER. THE REQUEST IS APPROVED OR DENIED AND A RECORD OF THE CHANGE IS ADDED TO THE GRANT FILE. THE GRANTEE MUST SUBMIT THEIR FINAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING BEFORE THE DEADLINE INDICATED IN THEIR GRANT AGREEMENT UNLESS AN EXTENSION HAS BEEN REQUESTED IN WRITING AND APPROVED BY THE PROGRAM OFFICER. THE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING PROVIDES A BREAKDOWN OF THE ACTUAL COSTS OF THE PROJECT AND IS EXPECTED TO PARALLEL THE COSTS PROJECTED IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT APPLICATION BUDGET; ALL DISCREPANCIES MUST BE EXPLAINED. IF THERE ARE UN-EXPENDED GRANT MONIES THEY MUST BE RETURNED TO THE SOCIETY. THE REPORTS COORDINATOR REVIEWS THE FINAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING FOR COMPLETENESS AND THEN CIRCULATES BOTH REPORTS TO THE PROGRAM OFFICERS FINAL REVIEW AND APPROVAL. ONCE THE REPORTS ARE APPROVED, THE GRANT IS CLOSED. AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE GRANT FILE IS RETAINED, in accordance with the Society's document retention policy, BY THE GRANT OPERATIONS STAFF, WHICH IS THE OFFICIAL REPOSITORY FOR ALL GRANTS RELATED DOCUMENTATION.
Schedule F, Part I, Line 3	Part I investments are valued at year-end book value. Part I program services are calculated on the cash basis. Grants in Parts I, II, & III are valued on the accrual basis.
Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 PROCEDURES FOR MONITORING USE OF GRANT FUNDS	The National Geographic Society FUNDS GRANTS ACROSS THE FIELDS OF CONSERVATION, EDUCATION, RESEARCH, STORYTELLING AND TECHNOLOGY. GRANT PROPOSALS ARE REVIEWED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STAFF EXPERTS, AN EXTERNAL PANEL OF GLOBAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS AND AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WHO RECOMENDS GRANTS FOR APPROVAL. When outside expertise is required to meet the impact objectives of a specific program, we often award grants outside of the grants committee process. Any grants awarded outside of the grants committee pipeline are considered "External Project Funding." Such grants are subject to an internal review process that evaluates the expertise of the grantee, the methodology for executing the work, and the overall contribution to programmatic objectives. Once the grantee is selected, the entire project - including grant funding - is submitted for approval by the NGS senior team through the "Spend Approval Process." Grants approved through this process are subject to reporting requirements above and beyond those required of standard grantees. THE GRANT RECIPENTS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN A GRANT AGREEMENT AND SUBMIT REPORTING INCLUDING A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING OF FUNDS SPENT TO ENSURE THAT THE GRANT FUNDS ARE PROPERLY USED AND ACCOUNTED FOR. THE FOLLOWING IS A DETAILED DESCRIPTION: WHEN A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY GRANT APPLICATION HAS BEEN APPROVED, PAYMENT IS ISSUED ONCE THE SOCIETY HAS RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING COMPLETED, SIGNED DOCUMENTS FROM THE GRANTEE: 1) APPROPRIATE TAX FORM. ALL GRANTEES WHO ARE NOT US CITIZENS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN AND SUBMIT THE APPROPRIATE TAX FORM (FORM W-8) FOR WORK CONDUCTED WHOLLY OUTSIDE THE US. 2) GRANT AGREEMENT. ALL GRANTEES MUST COMPLETE AND SIGN A GRANT AGREEMENT, WHICH INCLUDES DUE DATES FOR RESEARCH REPORTS AND FINANCIAL REPORTS (GENERALLY DUE WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF COMPLETION OF THE FIELD WORK.) BY SIGNING THE GRANT AGREEMENT, THE GRANTEE AGREES TO SUBMIT A FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT AND A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING OF THE GRANT MONIES SPENT BEFORE THE INDICATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE. GRANTEES ALSO CERTIFY TO PARAGRAPHS 16 & 17 (COPIED BELOW) THAT THEY WILL NOT PROMOTE TERRORISM AND WILL COMPLY WITH FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS: 17. CERTIFICATION. BY COUNTERSIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, YOU CERTIFY THAT YOUR ORGANIZATION DOES NOT AND WILL NOT PROMOTE OR ENGAGE IN VIOLENCE OR TERRORISM, NOR WILL YOUR ORGANIZATION MAKE SUB-GRANTS OR OTHER PAYMENTS TO ANY ENTITY THAT ENGAGES IN SUCH ACTIVITIES. 17 U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS. BY COUNTERSIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, I OR GRANTEE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM AWARE OF, AND AGREE TO COMPLY FULLY WITH, U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS THAT GOVERN TRAVEL TO, AND TRANSACTIONS WITH, COUNTRIES SUCH AS CUBA, IRAN, SUDAN, SYRIA, NORTH KOREA, CRIMEA TERRITORY, AND OTHER U.S.-SANCTIONED COUNTRIES, INCLUDING ANY SUCH CONTROLS THAT MAY BE IMPOSED IN THE FUTURE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE GRANT. SPECIFICALLY, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM AWARE OF AND AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY GOVERNING TRAVEL TO AND TRADE WITH COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO U.S. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS (31 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PARTS 500-598) AND ALSO WITH THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (15 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PARTS 730-774). I ALSO AGREE THAT, BEFORE ANY FUNDS ARE DISBURSED UNDER THIS GRANT, I WILL PROVIDE THE SOCIETY WITH COPIES OF ANY AUTHORIZATIONS FROM THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL ("OFAC") NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE GRANT, OR COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE FROM OFAC CONFIRMING THAT NO SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NECESSARY. I ALSO REPRESENT AND WARRANT TO THE SOCIETY THAT IN SEEKING AUTHORIZATIONS FROM OFAC AND/OR CONFIRMATION THAT NO SUCH AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NECESSARY, I FULLY DISCLOSED THE NATURE OF THE GRANT AND ITS PARTICIPANTS AND IDENTIFIED THE SOCIETY AS A SOURCE OF FUNDING. I ALSO AGREE THAT I WILL KEEP ALL NECESSARY RECORDS TO SHOW THAT I HAVE COMPLIED WITH U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS. FINALLY, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY THE SOCIETY TO CONSULT WITH MY OWN LEGAL COUNSEL IN CONNECTION WITH MY OBLIGATIONS UNDER U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS.GRANTEES ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A CERTIFICATION RELATED TO ETHICAL ISSUES AND THAT THE GRANTEE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS;THEY ALSO CERTIFY THAT THEY HAVE THE PROPER PERMITS TO UNDERTAKE THE PROPOSED FIELD RESEARCH IN THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT WILL BE CONDUCTED AND THAT NO IMPROPER PAYMENTS OF ANY VALUE HAVE BEEN MADE DURING THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING SUCH PERMITS. ADDITIONALLY, GRANTEES AFFILIATED WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES OR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ARE SCREENED IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY AND AVOID POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST INVOLVING THE GRANTEE'S OFFICIAL JOB DUTIES AND THE SOCIETY. THE SOCIETY'S FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SYSTEM ALSO REVIEWS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH FINANCIAL SANCTIONS LIST (THE SDN LIST) COMPLIED AND MAINTAINED BY THE U.S. TREASURY UPON NEW VENDOR SET-UP AND PRIOR TO EACH PAYMENT. ONCE PAYMENT IS ISSUED, IF GRANTEES WOULD LIKE TO ALTER THEIR PROPOSED BUDGET IN ANY WAY THEY MUST SUBMIT THEIR REQUEST TO THE PROGRAM OFFICER. THE REQUEST IS APPROVED OR DENIED AND A RECORD OF THE CHANGE IS ADDED TO THE GRANT FILE. THE GRANTEE MUST SUBMIT THEIR FINAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING BEFORE THE DEADLINE INDICATED IN THEIR GRANT AGREEMENT UNLESS AN EXTENSION HAS BEEN REQUESTED IN WRITING AND APPROVED BY THE PROGRAM OFFICER. THE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING PROVIDES A BREAKDOWN OF THE ACTUAL COSTS OF THE PROJECT AND IS EXPECTED TO PARALLEL THE COSTS PROJECTED IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT APPLICATION BUDGET; ALL DISCREPANCIES MUST BE EXPLAINED. IF THERE ARE UN-EXPENDED GRANT MONIES THEY MUST BE RETURNED TO THE SOCIETY. THE REPORTS COORDINATOR REVIEWS THE FINAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING FOR COMPLETENESS AND THEN CIRCULATES BOTH REPORTS TO THE PROGRAM OFFICERS FINAL REVIEW AND APPROVAL. ONCE THE REPORTS ARE APPROVED, THE GRANT IS CLOSED. AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE GRANT FILE IS RETAINED, in accordance with the Society's document retention policy, BY THE GRANT OPERATIONS STAFF, WHICH IS THE OFFICIAL REPOSITORY FOR ALL GRANTS RELATED DOCUMENTATION.

Schedule G IRS990ScheduleG

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Mail Solicitations	Yes (X)	MailSolicitationsInd
Email Solicitations	Yes (X)	EmailSolicitationsInd
Phone Solicitations	Yes (X)	PhoneSolicitationsInd
In Person Solicitations	Yes (X)	InPersonSolicitationsInd
Solicitation Of Non Govt Grants	Yes (X)	SolicitationOfNonGovtGrantsInd
Solicitation Of Govt Grants	Yes (X)	SolicitationOfGovtGrantsInd
Agrmt Prof Fundraising Acty	Yes (true)	AgrmtProfFundraisingActyInd

Fundraiser Activity Info FundraiserActivityInfoGrp (5 entries)

Address Line1USAddress/AddressLine1Txt	CityUSAddress/CityNm	State AbbreviationUSAddress/StateAbbreviationCd	ZIPUSAddress/ZIPCd	ActivityActivityTxt	Fundraiser Control Of FundsFundraiserControlOfFundsInd	Gross ReceiptsGrossReceiptsAmt	Retained By ContractorRetainedByContractorAmt	Net To OrganizationNetToOrganizationAmt
SD&A Teleservices Inc
5757 W Century Blvd	Los Angeles	CA	90045	Professional Fundraiser	false	$0	$119,806	-$119,806
Avalon Consulting Group Inc
805 15 St NW	Washington	DC	20005	Fundraising Consultant	false	$5,975,594	$375,844	$5,599,750
M&R Strategic Services Inc
1101 Conn Ave NW	Washington	DC	20036	Fundraising Consultant	false	$2,169,471	$613,834	$1,555,637
Impact Communications Inc
735 8th St SE	Washington	DC	20003	Fundraising Consultant	false	$2,000,511	$80,100	$1,920,411
LAKE GROUP MEDIA INC
1 Byram Brook Place	ARMONK	NY	10504	FUNDRAISING CONSULTANT	false	$0	$58,592	-$58,592

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total Gross Receipts	$10,145,576	TotalGrossReceiptsAmt
Total Retained By Contractors	$1,248,176	TotalRetainedByContractorsAmt
Total Net To Organization	$8,897,400	TotalNetToOrganizationAmt
Licensed States	AL	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	AK	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	AZ	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	AR	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	CA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	CO	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	CT	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	DE	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	FL	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	GA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	HI	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	ID	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	IL	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	IN	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	IA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	KS	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	KY	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	LA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	ME	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	MD	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	MA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	MI	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	MN	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	MS	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	MO	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	MT	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	NE	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	NV	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	NH	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	NJ	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	NM	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	NY	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	NC	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	ND	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	OH	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	OK	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	OR	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	PA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	RI	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	SC	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	SD	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	TN	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	TX	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	UT	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	VT	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	VA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	WA	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	WV	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	WI	LicensedStatesCd
Licensed States	WY	LicensedStatesCd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Form And Line Reference	Schedule G, Part I, Line 2b(v) payment of fees or payment of expenses	FormAndLineReferenceDesc
Explanation	SD&A TELESERVICES, INC.-SD&A GROSS RECEIPTS INCLUDED UNDER AVALON CONSULTING AND IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS. NGS REIMBURSED SD&A $17,902 FOR PAPER, MAILSHOP SERVICES AND POSTAGE IN 2019.;AVALON CONSULTING GROUP INC-NGS REIMBURSED AVALON FOR THE COST OF PAPER, MAILSHOP SERVICES, & POSTAGE IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,054,541 IN 2019.;M&R STRATEGIC SERVICES INC.-NGS REIMBURSED M&R $511,352 FOR DIGITAL ADVERTISING EXPENSES IN 2019.;IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS INC.-IN 2019 NGS REIMBURSED IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS $29,950 FOR COPYWRITING.;LAKE GROUP MEDIA INC.-LAKE GROUP MEDIA GROSS RECEIPTS INCLUDED UNDER AVALON CONSULTING. NGS REIMBURSED LAKE GROUP MEDIA $264,759 IN MAILING LIST FEES IN 2019.;	ExplanationTxt

Schedule I IRS990ScheduleI

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Grant Records Maintained	Yes (true)	GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Recipient Table RecipientTable (131 entries)

Address Line1USAddress/AddressLine1Txt	CityUSAddress/CityNm	State AbbreviationUSAddress/StateAbbreviationCd	ZIPUSAddress/ZIPCd	Recipient EINRecipientEIN	IRC SectionIRCSectionDesc	Cash GrantCashGrantAmt	Valuation Method UsedValuationMethodUsedDesc	Purpose Of GrantPurposeOfGrantTxt
University Of Maine System
5717 Corbett Hall	Orono	ME	04469	016000769	501(c)(3)	$15,000	FMV	Perpet. Planet/Mtns Exped
Dartmouth College
6016 McNutt Hall	Hanover	NH	03755	020222111	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Trustees of Boston Univ
881 Commonwealth Ave	Boston	MA	02215	042103547	501(c)(3)	$24,273	FMV	Standard Grants
PresidentFellows of Harvard College
1737 Cambridge St	Cambridge	MA	02138	042103580	501(c)(3)	$61,747	FMV	Making a Case for Nature
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
569 Woods Hole Rd	Woods Hole	MA	02543	042105850	501(c)(3)	$29,664	FMV	Standard Grants
University Of Massachusetts
333 South St	Shrewsbury	MA	01545	043167352	501(c)(3)	$39,450	FMV	Standard Grants
Brown University
164 Angell St	Providence	RI	02912	050258809	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Av	Hartford	CT	06117	060731360	501(c)(3)	$26,900	FMV	Standard Grants
University of Connecticut
438 Whitney Rd	Storrs	CT	06269	060772160	501(c)(3)	$19,954	FMV	Standard Grants
Ashford Board of Education
440 Westford Rd	Ashford	CT	06278	066001584	501(c)(3)	$10,000	FMV	Early Career Grants
Long Island University
75 Dekalb Ave	Brooklyn	NY	11201	111633516	501(c)(3)	$147,558	FMV	Standard Grants
Flushing Christian Day School
41-54 Murray St	Flushing	NY	11355	111704597	501(c)(3)	$18,000	FMV	Sponsorship
Barnard College
3009 Broadway	New York	NY	10027	131628149	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
New York Botanical Garden
2900 Southern Blvd	Bronx	NY	10458	131693134	501(c)(3)	$9,700	FMV	Standard Grants
Wildlife Conservation Society
2300 Southern Blvd	Bronx	NY	10460	131740011	501(c)(3)	$84,930	FMV	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc
180 Maiden Lane	New York	NY	10038	134071318	501(c)(3)	$60,030	FMV	Standard Grants
The American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West	New York	NY	10024	136162659	501(c)(3)	$29,994	FMV	Standard Grants
The Research Foundation for The State
PO box 9	Albany	NY	12201	141368361	501(c)(3)	$29,919	FMV	Standard Grants
Syracuse University
640 Skytop Rd	Syracuse	NY	13244	150532081	501(c)(3)	$18,980	FMV	Standard Grants
Cornell University
Macaulay Library	Ithaca	NY	14850	150532082	501(c)(3)	$45,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Turtle Conservancy
1794 McNell Rd	Ojai	CA	93023	202899240	501(c)(3)	$48,800	FMV	Standard Grants
African People & Wildlife Fund Inc
Box 624	Bernardsville	NJ	07924	203153855	501(c)(3)	$100,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Wildaid Inc
333 Pine St	San Francisco	CA	94104	203644441	501(c)(3)	$120,000	FMV	LEX
Panthera Corporation
8 W 40th St	New York	NY	10018	204668756	501(c)(3)	$99,766	FMV	Standard Grants
The Anne K Taylor Fund
2724 Arvin Road	Billings	MT	59102	204693436	501(c)(3)	$55,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Felidae Conservation Fund
110 Tiburon Blvd	Mill Valley	CA	94941	205089093	501(c)(3)	$20,035	FMV	Standard Grants
Institute of Maritime Research and Discovery Ltd
1245 Mall Drive	NChesterfield	VA	23235	205737315	501(c)(3)	$49,834	FMV	Standard Grants
Vermont Folklife Center
88 Main St	Middlebury	VT	05753	222550951	501(c)(3)	$7,400	FMV	Early Career Grants
University Of Pittsburgh
116 Atwood St	Pittsburg	PA	15260	250965591	501(c)(3)	$9,990	FMV	Early Career Grants
Children Inspiring Hope Inc
PO Box 14614	Savannah	GA	31416	261778315	501(c)(3)	$6,460	FMV	Early Career Grants
Peacemakers Family Center LLC
PO Box 680100	Miami	FL	33168	262709973	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Global Wildlife Conservation
PO Box 129	Austin	TX	78767	262887967	501(c)(3)	$91,888	FMV	Standard Grants
Blue Marble Space
5203 11th Ave NE	Seattle	WA	98105	270184094	501(c)(3)	$10,000	FMV	Early Career Grants
Greg Carr Foundation Inc
313 N Water Av	Idaho Falls	ID	83402	270564755	501(c)(3)	$65,000	FMV	LWP Partnerships
Climate Conservation
PO Box 1587	Bozeman	MT	59771	271226829	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Rozalia Project Inc
PO Box 3075	Burlington	VT	05408	272274099	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
What is Missing Foundation
39 Bond Street	New York	NY	10012	300175296	501(c)(3)	$112,500	FMV	Storytelling Fellows
EcoHealth Alliance
460 West 34th St	New York	NY	10001	311726494	501(c)(3)	$46,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Ohio University
010 Chubb Hall	Athens	OH	45701	316402113	501(c)(3)	$26,230	FMV	Standard Grants
Earlham College Inc
801 National Rd	Richmond	IN	47374	350868073	501(c)(3)	$28,450	FMV	Standard Grants
Indiana University
400 E 7th Street	Bloomington	IN	47405	356001673	501(c)(3)	$28,510	FMV	Standard Grants
Purdue University
1281 Win Hentschel Blvd	West Lafayette	IN	47906	356002041	501(c)(3)	$38,894	FMV	Standard Grants
Loyola University Chicago
820 North Michigan Av	Chicago	IL	60611	361408475	501(c)(3)	$59,986	FMV	Standard Grants
University Of Chicago
6054 South Drexel Av	Chicago	IL	60637	362177139	501(c)(3)	$9,200	FMV	Early Career Grants
Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation Inc
41 Old Lyme Rd	Chappaqua	NY	10514	364540146	501(c)(3)	$26,295	FMV	Standard Grants
The Everyday Projects Inc
294 Washington Av	Brooklyn	NY	11205	364823538	501(c)(3)	$35,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Michigan State University
426 Auditorium Rd	East Lansing	MI	48824	386005984	501(c)(3)	$53,614	FMV	Standard Grants
Regents Of The University Of Michigan
3003 S State St	Ann Arbor	MI	48109	386006309	501(c)(3)	$206,980	FMV	Standard Grants
Detroit Zoological Society
8450 W 10 Mile Road	Royal Oak	MI	48067	386027356	501(c)(3)	$16,516	FMV	Standard Grants
University of Northern Iowa Foundation
121 Commons	Cedar Falls	IA	50614	426058591	501(c)(3)	$23,779	FMV	Standard Grants
Missouri Botanical Garden
4344 Shaw Blvd	St Louis	MO	63110	430666759	501(c)(3)	$40,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Millrock Productions Inc
205 Harvard Place	Syracuse	NY	13210	443054935	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
SR3 SeaLife Response Rehabilitation and Research
257 Gloxina Street	Encinitas	CA	92024	451491069	501(c)(3)	$29,698	FMV	LEX
BASA Balinese Language Preservation Corp
6517 Wiscasset Rd	Bethesda	MD	20816	452440124	501(c)(3)	$9,950	FMV	Early Career Grants
Conservation Action Research Network
3463 Tuna Canyon Rd	Topanga	CA	90290	455045474	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
The Peoples Portfolio Inc
1375 Broadway	New York	NY	10018	455076316	501(c)(3)	$70,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Great Plains Conservation Foundation
165 Cat Rock Lane	Jupiter	FL	33458	455494919	501(c)(3)	$23,700	FMV	Standard Grants
White Oak Conservation Foundation Inc
581705 White Oak Rd	Yulee	FL	32097	464249512	501(c)(3)	$40,000	FMV	Sumatran Rhino
Define American
900 S Shelby St	Louisville	KY	40203	464610491	501(c)(3)	$57,500	FMV	Standard Grants
Returnity Innovations Inc
1336 Brommer St	Santa Cruz	CA	95062	465674477	501(c)(3)	$45,000	FMV	Sponsorship
Omaha Zoological Society
3701 South 10th St	Omaha	NE	68107	470469782	501(c)(3)	$28,229	FMV	Standard Grants
Oceans Forward
246 S Notre Dame Av	Orange	CA	92869	471874294	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Anand Varma Photography
2374 Eunice St	Berkeley	CA	94708	471932047		$37,500	FMV	Storytelling Fellows
African Aquatic Conservation Fund
PO Box 366	Chilmark	MA	02535	472592641	501(c)(3)	$25,000	FMV	Sponsorship
Conservation X Labs Inc
1875 Conn Av NW	Washington	DC	20009	474066524	501(c)(3)	$10,000	FMV	Early Career Grants
Claws Conservancy Inc
32 Pine Tree Dr	Worcester	MA	01609	475208674	501(c)(3)	$100,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Xinampa Inc
569 Colusa Ave	El Cerrito	CA	94530	475221521	501(c)(3)	$50,000	FMV	Standard Grants
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
2385 Irving Hill Road	Lawrence	KS	66045	480680117	501(c)(3)	$8,500	FMV	Early Career Grants
Alabama Historical Commission
468 South Perry St	Montgomery	AL	36104	510214311	501(c)(3)	$9,500	FMV	Archaeology R&D
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Penn Ave NW	Washington	DC	20004	521067541	501(c)(3)	$92,638	FMV	Standard Grants
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
1121 Pacific Avenue	Santa Cruz	CA	95060	521443811	501(c)(3)	$27,500	FMV	Sponsorship
American Bird Conservancy
4249 Loundoun Av	The Plains	VA	20198	521501259	501(c)(3)	$10,000	FMV	Standard Grants
World Wildlife Fund Inc
1250 24th St NW	Washington	DC	20037	521693387	501(c)(3)	$52,000	FMV	Allen Coral Atlas
State Of Maryland
11767 Owings Mills Blvd	Owings Mills	MD	21117	526002033	501(c)(3)	$50,000	FMV	EXTECH Swarming Driftcam
The George Washington University
2029 G Street NW	Washington	DC	20052	530196584	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Smithsonian Institution
10th Constit Av NW	Washington	DC	20560	530206027	501(c)(3)	$100,404	FMV	Standard Grants
Andrew Lewis Middle School
616 south College Av	Salem	VA	24153	541494484	501(c)(3)	$12,285	FMV	Standard Grants
The Kasiisi Project
70 Gilbert St	Watertown	MA	02472	542195079	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
505 Tenth St NW	Atlanta	GA	30318	580603146	501(c)(3)	$21,350	FMV	Standard Grants
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Biological Sciences	Atlanta	GA	30332	586002023	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Board of Regents of the University
82 College Circle	Dahlonega	GA	30597	586002060	501(c)(3)	$29,800	FMV	Standard Grants
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc
811 S Palm Av	Sarasota	FL	34236	591848965	501(c)(3)	$7,524	FMV	Early Career Grants
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Av	Tampa	FL	33620	593102112	501(c)(3)	$30,000	FMV	Standard Grants
University Of Florida Board of Trustees
207 Grinter Hall	Gainesville	FL	32611	596002052	501(c)(3)	$59,332	FMV	Standard Grants
Florida Institute of Technology
150 W Univ Blvd	Melbourne	FL	32901	596046500	501(c)(3)	$27,560	FMV	Standard Grants
Murray State University
200 Sparks Hall	Murray	KY	42071	611005783	501(c)(3)	$8,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Oregon State University
1500 SW Jefferson St	Corvallis	OR	97331	611730890	501(c)(3)	$29,610	FMV	Standard Grants
The University of Memphis
276 Admin Bldg	Memphis	TN	38152	620648618	501(c)(3)	$31,800	FMV	Standard Grants
The University of Tennessee
201 Andy Holt Tower	Knoxville	TN	37996	626001636	501(c)(3)	$17,958	FMV	Archaeology R&D
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive	Hattiesburg	MS	39406	646000818	501(c)(3)	$13,932	FMV	Standard Grants
Botanic Gardens Conservation International US
14239 Califa St	Sherman Oaks	CA	91401	650815620	501(c)(3)	$36,500	FMV	Standard Grants
The Ocean Foundation
1320 19th St NW	Washington	DC	20036	710863908	501(c)(3)	$21,000	FMV	Standard Grants
West Feliciana Parish School Board
PO Box 1910	St Francisville	LA	70775	726001491	501(c)(3)	$14,950	FMV	Standard Grants
Concordia University Texas
11400 Concordia Univ Dr	Austin	TX	78726	741161941	501(c)(3)	$18,183	FMV	EDU Reg. Directors In the Field
The University of Arizona
1601 E Univ Blvd	Tuscon	AZ	85721	742652689	501(c)(3)	$9,930	FMV	Early Career Grants
Shumla School Inc
PO Box 627	Comstock	TX	78837	742869788	501(c)(3)	$29,994	FMV	Standard Grants
Texas State University
601 UnivDr	San Marcos	TX	78666	746002248	501(c)(3)	$91,964	FMV	EDU Reg. Directors In the Field
Tarrant County College District
1500 Houston St	Fort Worth	TX	76102	751217163	501(c)(3)	$15,020	FMV	EDU Reg. Directors In the Field
The University of Texas at Arlington
701 S Nedderman D	Arlington	TX	76019	756000121	501(c)(3)	$40,750	FMV	EDU Reg. Directors In the Field
Montana Outdoor Science School
4056 Bridger Canyon Rd	Bozeman	MT	59715	810503944	501(c)(3)	$16,599	FMV	LWP Partnerships
American Prairie Foundation
PO Box 908	Bozeman	MT	59771	810541893	501(c)(3)	$150,000	FMV	LWP Partnerships
Friends of the Osa
1012 14th Street NW	Washington	DC	20005	810621147	501(c)(3)	$50,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Montana State University
PO Box 172470	Bozeman	MT	59717	816010045	501(c)(3)	$30,625	FMV	Perpetual Planet/Mtns. Exped.
TED Foundation Inc
330 Hudson St	New York	NY	10013	821934592	501(c)(3)	$235,000	FMV	Sponsorship
DevRA International
27 E Mac Iver Pl	Tuscon	AZ	85705	824741660	501(c)(3)	$56,478	FMV	Standard Grants
Ocean Exploration Trust Inc
613 Williams St	New London	CT	06320	830488383	501(c)(3)	$50,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Whales of Guerrero
9815 N Syracuse St	Portland	OR	97203	831162579	501(c)(3)	$9,986	FMV	Early Career Grants
RWG Ventures LLC
253 West 122nd St	New York	NY	10027	831540745		$84,260	FMV	LWP Partnerships
Women Photograph
370 Central Park W	New York	NY	10025	833313612	501(c)(3)	$20,000	FMV	Sponsorship
The Last Beach Cleanup
30955 La Brise	Laguna Miguel	CA	92677	833372759	501(c)(3)	$29,800	FMV	Standard Grants
Agile Services Group LLC
30 N Gould St	Sheridan	WY	82801	834458297		$88,750	FMV	Illegal Wildlife Trade
Denver Zoological Foundation Inc
2300 N Steele St	Denver	CO	80205	840502539	501(c)(3)	$29,616	FMV	Standard Grants
Colorado State University
555 S Howes Street	Fort Collins	CO	80523	846000545	501(c)(3)	$41,850	FMV	Standard Grants
University of Northern Colorado
501 20th Street	Greeley	CO	80639	846000546	501(c)(3)	$26,422	FMV	Standard Grants
The Regents Of the University Of Colorado
1800 Grant St	Denver	CO	80203	846000555	501(c)(3)	$80,391	FMV	Standard Grants
Arizona State University
PO Box 875703	Tempe	AZ	87287	860196696	501(c)(3)	$40,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Pima County Amphitheater Schools
701 W Wetmore Rd	Tuscon	AZ	85705	866000054	501(c)(3)	$15,000	FMV	Standard Grants
University Of Utah
201 Presidents Circle	Salt Lake City	UT	84112	876000525	501(c)(3)	$15,200	FMV	Standard Grants
House of Pod LLC
606 Boyd St	Golden	CO	80403	884401936		$29,600	FMV	Standard Grants
Alaska Whale Foundation
PO Box 1927	Petersburg	AK	99833	911712495	501(c)(3)	$60,027	FMV	LEX
World Free Press Institute
3118 Hambletonian Ln	Walnut Creek	CA	95698	911811309	501(c)(3)	$144,000	FMV	Standard Grants
Island Conservation
2100 Delaware Ave	Santa Cruz	CA	95060	911839907	501(c)(3)	$240,000	FMV	LEX
University of Washington
4300 Roosevelt Way NE	Seattle	WA	98195	916001537	501(c)(3)	$38,900	FMV	Standard Grants
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr	San Francisco	CA	94118	941156258	501(c)(3)	$24,000	FMV	Making a Case for Nature
NatureBridge
28 Geary Street	San Francisco	CA	94108	942145930	501(c)(3)	$105,682	FMV	EDU Reg. Directors In the Field
Regents Of The University Of California
119 California Hall	Berkeley	CA	94720	946002123	501(c)(3)	$395,412	FMV	Yellowstone
Zoological Society of San Diego
PO Box 120551	San Diego	CA	92112	951648219	501(c)(3)	$25,200	FMV	Standard Grants
LSB Leakey Foundation
1003B OReilly Avenue	San Francisco	CA	94129	952536475	501(c)(3)	$60,000	FMV	Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow
The Walden Woods Project
44 Baker Farm	Lincoln	MA	01773	954292658	501(c)(3)	$24,500	FMV	Standard Grants
University Of California Santa Barbara
Global Client Services	Concord	CA	94520	956006145	501(c)(3)	$91,772	FMV	Making a Case for Nature
University Of Hawaii
2440 Campus Road	Honolulu	HI	96822	996000354	501(c)(3)	$47,264	FMV	EXTECH Deep Sea Index

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Total501c3 Org	127	Total501c3OrgCnt
Total Other Org	4	TotalOtherOrgCnt

Grants Other Asst To Indiv In US GrantsOtherAsstToIndivInUSGrp (12 entries)

Grant TypeGrantTypeTxt	RecipientRecipientCnt	Cash GrantCashGrantAmt	Valuation Method UsedValuationMethodUsedDesc	Non Cash AssistanceNonCashAssistanceAmt	Non Cash AssistanceNonCashAssistanceDesc
EARLY CAREER GRANTS	53	$484,259	FMV
GEOGRAPHIC BEE WINNER AWARDS	3	$85,000	FMV	$5,000	TRIP; NGM SUBSCRIPTION
STUDENT EXPEDITION GRANTS	20		FMV	$130,000	TRIP FOR LOW-INCOME TEENS
PHOTO ARK	1	$800,000	FMV
Storytelling Fellows	3	$195,527	FMV
Expand the Field	6	$46,141	FMV
Brian Skerry Whale Culture	1	$247,390	FMV
EXTECH Deep Sea Index	1	$95,960	FMV
STANDARD GRANTS	89	$2,684,642	FMV
Peter Muller Human Nature Nexus	1	$10,000	FMV
RR Transhumanism Fellows	1	$5,833	FMV
Sponsorship	1	$25,000	FMV

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Form And Line Reference	Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 Procedures for monitoring use of grant funds.	FormAndLineReferenceDesc
Explanation	The National Geographic Society FUNDS GRANTS ACROSS THE FIELDS OF CONSERVATION, EDUCATION, RESEARCH, STORYTELLING AND TECHNOLOGY. GRANT PROPOSALS ARE REVIEWED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STAFF EXPERTS, AN EXTERNAL PANEL OF GLOBAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS AND AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WHO RECOMENDS GRANTS FOR APPROVAL. When outside expertise is required to meet the impact objectives of a specific program, we often award grants outside of the grants committee process. Any grants awarded outside of the grants committee pipeline are considered "External Project Funding." Such grants are subject to an internal review process that evaluates the expertise of the grantee, the methodology for executing the work, and the overall contribution to programmatic objectives. Once the grantee is selected, the entire project - including grant funding - is submitted for approval by the NGS senior team through the "Spend Approval Process." Grants approved through this process are subject to reporting requirements above and beyond those required of standard grantees. THE GRANT RECIPENTS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN A GRANT AGREEMENT AND SUBMIT REPORTING INCLUDING A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING OF FUNDS SPENT TO ENSURE THAT THE GRANT FUNDS ARE PROPERLY USED AND ACCOUNTED FOR. THE FOLLOWING IS A DETAILED DESCRIPTION: WHEN A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY GRANT APPLICATION HAS BEEN APPROVED, PAYMENT IS ISSUED ONCE THE SOCIETY HAS RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING COMPLETED, SIGNED DOCUMENTS FROM THE GRANTEE: 1) APPROPRIATE TAX FORM. ALL GRANTEES WHO ARE NOT US CITIZENS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN AND SUBMIT THE APPROPRIATE TAX FORM (FORM W-8) FOR WORK CONDUCTED WHOLLY OUTSIDE THE US. 2) GRANT AGREEMENT. ALL GRANTEES MUST COMPLETE AND SIGN A GRANT AGREEMENT, WHICH INCLUDES DUE DATES FOR RESEARCH REPORTS AND FINANCIAL REPORTS (GENERALLY DUE WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF COMPLETION OF THE FIELD WORK.) BY SIGNING THE GRANT AGREEMENT, THE GRANTEE AGREES TO SUBMIT A FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT AND A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING OF THE GRANT MONIES SPENT BEFORE THE INDICATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE. GRANTEES ALSO CERTIFY TO PARAGRAPHS 16 & 17 (COPIED BELOW) THAT THEY WILL NOT PROMOTE TERRORISM AND WILL COMPLY WITH FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS: 17. CERTIFICATION. BY COUNTERSIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, YOU CERTIFY THAT YOUR ORGANIZATION DOES NOT AND WILL NOT PROMOTE OR ENGAGE IN VIOLENCE OR TERRORISM, NOR WILL YOUR ORGANIZATION MAKE SUB-GRANTS OR OTHER PAYMENTS TO ANY ENTITY THAT ENGAGES IN SUCH ACTIVITIES. 17 U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS. BY COUNTERSIGNING THIS AGREEMENT, I OR GRANTEE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM AWARE OF, AND AGREE TO COMPLY FULLY WITH, U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS THAT GOVERN TRAVEL TO, AND TRANSACTIONS WITH, COUNTRIES SUCH AS CUBA, IRAN, SUDAN, SYRIA, NORTH KOREA, CRIMEA TERRITORY, AND OTHER U.S.-SANCTIONED COUNTRIES, INCLUDING ANY SUCH CONTROLS THAT MAY BE IMPOSED IN THE FUTURE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE GRANT. SPECIFICALLY, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM AWARE OF AND AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY GOVERNING TRAVEL TO AND TRADE WITH COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO U.S. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS (31 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PARTS 500-598) AND ALSO WITH THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (15 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PARTS 730-774). I ALSO AGREE THAT, BEFORE ANY FUNDS ARE DISBURSED UNDER THIS GRANT, I WILL PROVIDE THE SOCIETY WITH COPIES OF ANY AUTHORIZATIONS FROM THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL ("OFAC") NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE GRANT, OR COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE FROM OFAC CONFIRMING THAT NO SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NECESSARY. I ALSO REPRESENT AND WARRANT TO THE SOCIETY THAT IN SEEKING AUTHORIZATIONS FROM OFAC AND/OR CONFIRMATION THAT NO SUCH AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NECESSARY, I FULLY DISCLOSED THE NATURE OF THE GRANT AND ITS PARTICIPANTS AND IDENTIFIED THE SOCIETY AS A SOURCE OF FUNDING. I ALSO AGREE THAT I WILL KEEP ALL NECESSARY RECORDS TO SHOW THAT I HAVE COMPLIED WITH U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS. FINALLY, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY THE SOCIETY TO CONSULT WITH MY OWN LEGAL COUNSEL IN CONNECTION WITH MY OBLIGATIONS UNDER U.S. FOREIGN TRADE CONTROLS.GRANTEES ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A CERTIFICATION RELATED TO ETHICAL ISSUES AND THAT THE GRANTEE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS;THEY ALSO CERTIFY THAT THEY HAVE THE PROPER PERMITS TO UNDERTAKE THE PROPOSED FIELD RESEARCH IN THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT WILL BE CONDUCTED AND THAT NO IMPROPER PAYMENTS OF ANY VALUE HAVE BEEN MADE DURING THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING SUCH PERMITS. ADDITIONALLY, GRANTEES AFFILIATED WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES OR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ARE SCREENED IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY AND AVOID POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST INVOLVING THE GRANTEE'S OFFICIAL JOB DUTIES AND THE SOCIETY. THE SOCIETY'S FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SYSTEM ALSO REVIEWS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH FINANCIAL SANCTIONS LIST (THE SDN LIST) COMPLIED AND MAINTAINED BY THE U.S. TREASURY UPON NEW VENDOR SET-UP AND PRIOR TO EACH PAYMENT. ONCE PAYMENT IS ISSUED, IF GRANTEES WOULD LIKE TO ALTER THEIR PROPOSED BUDGET IN ANY WAY THEY MUST SUBMIT THEIR REQUEST TO THE PROGRAM OFFICER. THE REQUEST IS APPROVED OR DENIED AND A RECORD OF THE CHANGE IS ADDED TO THE GRANT FILE. THE GRANTEE MUST SUBMIT THEIR FINAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING BEFORE THE DEADLINE INDICATED IN THEIR GRANT AGREEMENT UNLESS AN EXTENSION HAS BEEN REQUESTED IN WRITING AND APPROVED BY THE PROGRAM OFFICER. THE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING PROVIDES A BREAKDOWN OF THE ACTUAL COSTS OF THE PROJECT AND IS EXPECTED TO PARALLEL THE COSTS PROJECTED IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT APPLICATION BUDGET; ALL DISCREPANCIES MUST BE EXPLAINED. IF THERE ARE UN-EXPENDED GRANT MONIES THEY MUST BE RETURNED TO THE SOCIETY. THE REPORTS COORIDINATOR REVIEWS THE FINAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING FOR COMPLETNESS AND THEN CIRCULATES BOTH REPORTS TO THE PROGRAM OFFICERS FINAL REVIEW AND APPROVAL. ONCE THE REPORTS ARE APPROVED, THE GRANT IS CLOSED. AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE GRANT FILE IS RETAINED, in accordance with the Society's document retention policy, BY THE GRANT OPERATIONS STAFF, WHICH IS THE OFFICIAL REPOSITORY FOR ALL GRANTS RELATED DOCUMENTATION.	ExplanationTxt

Schedule J IRS990ScheduleJ

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
First Class Or Charter Travel	Yes (X)	FirstClassOrCharterTravelInd
Idemnification Gross Up Pmts	Yes (X)	IdemnificationGrossUpPmtsInd
Written Policy Ref T And E Expnss	Yes (true)	WrittenPolicyRefTAndEExpnssInd
Substantiation Required	Yes (true)	SubstantiationRequiredInd
Compensation Committee	Yes (X)	CompensationCommitteeInd
Independent Consultant	Yes (X)	IndependentConsultantInd
Form990 Of Other Organizations	Yes (X)	Form990OfOtherOrganizationsInd
Written Employment Contract	Yes (X)	WrittenEmploymentContractInd
Compensation Survey	Yes (X)	CompensationSurveyInd
Board Or Committee Approval	Yes (X)	BoardOrCommitteeApprovalInd
Severance Payment	Yes (true)	SeverancePaymentInd
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Tracy R Wolstencroft
PRESIDENT & CEO	$672,890	$0	$70,656	$0	$40,242	$0	$5,115	$0	$23,209	$0	$812,112	$0	$0	$0
MICHAEL J COLE
SVP/CONTROLLER/ASST. TREASURER	$263,822	$0	$44,618	$0	$3,881	$0	$9,250	$0	$20,935	$0	$342,506	$0	$0	$0
TARA BUNCH
Chief Administrative Officer	$313,876	$0	$63,689	$0	$700	$0	$9,500	$0	$18,470	$0	$406,235	$0	$0	$0
ANGELO M GRIMA
EVP & GENERAL COUNSEL/CORP. SEC.	$320,139	$0	$69,380	$0	$4,776	$0	$9,500	$0	$25,316	$0	$429,111	$0	$0	$0
MICHAEL ULICA
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EMMA CARRASCO
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Jonathan Baillie
Chief Scientist/EVP Science & Exploration	$368,902	$0	$82,607	$0	$1,260	$0	$355,410	$0	$28,527	$0	$836,706	$0	$0	$0
AMY KREIDER
CHIEF MEDIA & PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER	$199,647	$0	$60,000	$0	$678	$0	$0	$0	$10,138	$0	$270,463	$0	$0	$0
Vicki Phillips
EVP & Chief Education Officer	$314,395	$0	$50,000	$0	$4,752	$0	$4,115	$0	$9,092	$0	$382,354	$0	$0	$0
Alex Moen
VP Explorers Program	$223,675	$0	$38,976	$0	$2,147	$0	$9,009	$0	$28,322	$0	$302,129	$0	$0	$0
Enric Sala
Explorer in Residence	$304,612	$0	$37,543	$0	$1,518	$0	$9,311	$0	$10,274	$0	$363,258	$0	$0	$0
CHRISTOPHER JOHNS
Director Executive, Yellowstone Project	$106,935	$0	$68,175	$0	$343,667	$0	$2,772	$0	$9,835	$0	$531,384	$0	$0	$0
Kaitlin Yarnall
Chief Storytelling Officer & SVP	$239,819	$0	$35,242	$0	$472	$0	$8,617	$0	$18,435	$0	$302,585	$0	$0	$0
Robert Bernard
Global Head of Strategic Partnerships	$176,806	$0	$50,000	$0	$152,408	$0	$209,135	$0	$13,909	$0	$602,258	$0	$0	$0
Leora Hanser
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FRANK BORMAN
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Schedule J, Part II NONTAXABLE BENEFITS	Components of benefits and deferred compensation provided to certain executives: life insurance, parking, 401(k), 457(b), dental & medical insurance, long-term disability, and travel/accident insurance. Below is a summary of all officers or key employees who had a severance clause in their respective employment contracts in 2019. These severance amounts are solely contingent upon an employee's involuntary termination without cause from the Society. As such, these amounts were not accrued or funded in any way and were considered unlikely to occur and did not occur in 2019. None of these amounts have been included in Column D. Tara Bunch - 1 times base salary Emma Carrasco - 1 times base salary
Part VII, Section A	The Society paid Manpower Inc. to employ trustee Dr. Peter Raven to review research grant applications. Manpower Inc. paid Dr. Peter Raven $70,000 in 2019.
Schedule J, Part I, Line 1a First-class or charter travel	The Society does not generally pay for first-class airfare. "First-class" refers to Society-paid full-fare first-class airfare. In 2019, one key employee flew first-class for 1 flight leg, and 1 trustee traveled first class on Amtrak for 1 leg, both for business purposes. The cost of this first class travel was reasonable and comparable to the cost of business class. No portion of this additional benefit was reported as taxable compensation to the recipients.
Schedule J, Part I, Line 1a Tax indemnification and gross-up payments	1 officer received a 1-time gross-up payment in 2019. The entire amount was treated as taxable compensation.
Schedule J, Part I, Line 4a Severance or change-of-control payment	THE FOLLOWING FORMER OFFICERS, KEY EMPLOYEES, AND HIGHLY COMPENSATED EMPLOYEES RECEIVED SEVERANCE PAYMENTS IN 2019: LEORA HANSER--$239,111 ROBERT BERNARD--$151,442 CHRISTOPHER JOHNS--$340,385 ($228,715 of Leora Hanser's payments were accrued in 2018) Jonathan Baillie (key employee) and Robert Bernard (5 highest paid) had additional severance of $346,154 and $209,135 respectively accrued at 12/31/19 and reported on Sch. J, Part II, Col. (C).

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Form 990, Part III, Line 4b Scientific Research and Exploration Programs cont.	Approximately nine million tons of plastic waste end up in the ocean each year, threatening our ecosystems, wildlife and human health. By mobilizing global communities and investing in science, exploration, innovation and education, the National Geographic Society is working to tackle the world's plastic waste crisis. In 2019, the Society awarded grants to over 20 Explorers worldwide that are preventing plastic pollution, conducted two Sea to Source expeditions of the Ganges River to investigate plastic pollution with an international, interdiciplinary, female-led team, and developed a teacher course and classroom resources for educators that answer key questions on plastic pollution and inspire solutions. We are also working to empower the next generation of leaders, and the Education team is currently in the second year of our Tackling Plastic GeoChallenge, which enables students around the US to develop their own solutions to the problem and compete for NGS funding. In partnership with Sky Ocean Ventures, the Society conducted its first Innovation Challenge in 2019 and awarded 25 finalists and 3 winners with solutions to plastic waste in the areas of material design, circular economy, and data visualization. In partnership with Morgan Stanley, the Society has also developed a suite of resources to support the citizen science tool Marine Debris Tracker that will be used around the world to collect data and engage audiences on plastic waste in their environment. Through these activities and more, National Geographic Society is working to catalyze action, accelerate impact, empower the next generation, and inspire audiences around the world to make positive change. The National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project (NGOWP) is working to protect the Okavango watershed by exploring and surveying its source waters in Angola. The team has conducted a series of canoe- and land-based expeditions focusing on the least known, most inaccessible parts of the Okavango Basin's river catchments in southeastern and central Angola - a study area of approximately 150,000 square kilometers (57,915 square miles). This area, when linked to protected areas in Namibia and Botswana, would become one of the largest transboundary protected areas on the African continent. Since 2015, the NGOWP team has been surveying the river systems, collecting data and scientific insights to help determine strategies for protecting these essential waterways. In addition to building a case for conservation through expedition science, the team is focused on facilitating long-term, sustainable management of protected areas in Angola by establishing partnerships among governments, NGOs, and local communities. In 2019 the team conducted biodiversity and socioeconomic surveys of the Project Area in Angola and continued to nurture the relationships between and among partners working in Angola. Pristine Seas is an exploration, research, and media project founded and led by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Enric Sala. Its mission is to help protect 20 of the last wild places in the ocean by 2020. This includes not only preserving areas that are pristine or near pristine, but also helping to bring closer to pristine (i.e., to restore) areas that may have suffered some human impacts but still harbor unique features such as large animals, healthy bottom communities, and outstanding biodiversity. The project envisions a future ocean where representative examples of undisturbed ecosystems are protected from direct human activities, with the hope that these places will be healthier, more productive, and more resilient to the impacts of ocean warming and acidification. These protected areas will be the best baselines to understand the true magnitude of human impacts on ocean life, to evaluate the efficacy of management and conservation actions, and to help us determine what future ocean we want for our children and grandchildren. Pristine Seas has carried out expeditions in 31 places, 22 of which have since been protected, covering a total area of more than 5 million square kilometers - more than half the area of Canada. The National Geographic Society is using a science-based approach to support wildlife-compatible landscapes in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and in central Montana-from Yellowstone National Park to Grasslands National Park in Canada. We seek to address the challenges of species recovery and migration across public and private lands while respecting the needs of local landowners and communities. National Geographic Fellow, Arthur Middleton, received funding through his lab at the University of California Berkeley from the Beyond Yellowstone program to assess migration patterns in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Over the next two years, Arthur and his team will use camera traps, radio tracking, observation, and analysis to further our understanding of how living things interact across the land. National Geographic is also supporting local efforts and educators on the ground to build up the next generation of wildlife stewards around Yellowstone and beyond. National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative (BCI) is a comprehensive, action-oriented program that supports on-the-ground big cat conservation projects and a global public awareness campaign, Cause an Uproar. In 2019, BCI conducted an analysis to identify 20 lion strongholds in Africa where we could focus our grantmaking. In 2019, the Big Cats Initiative used this analysis to narrow our original global call to protect big cats around the world to these 20 strongholds in Africa. By the end of 2018, BCI had awarded more than 120 grants covering 27 countries with a total of more than $4 million. The BCI grants program has made important strides in helping communities understand and protect big cats. BCI continues to offer several ways for public engagement, including free educator lesson plans, text and online donations platform. The Nat Geo Society Storytelling team filmed with grantees and used these assets to create local impact videos for the grantees to show to local communities. The National Geographic Photo Ark is a multiyear effort to raise awareness of and find solutions to some of the most pressing issues affecting wildlife and their habitats. The Photo Ark's three-pronged approach harnesses the power of National Geographic photography and the bold ideas of our explorers. Led by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, the project aims to document every species living in the world's zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, inspire action through education, and help save wildlife by supporting on-the-ground conservation efforts. In 2018, Sartore passed both the 8,000 and the 9,000 species mark when he added the Pyrenean desman and Bandula barb to the Photo Ark. In partnership with the Zoological Society of London's EDGE of Existence Program, which focuses on the planet's most unique and endangered species, the Photo Ark established a new fellowship program, coined Nat Geo Photo Ark EDGE Fellows. The program supports on-the-ground conservation efforts to help save species featured in the National Geographic Photo Ark. The 2017 cohort of fellows all focused on Latin American species. In 2019, the Photo Ark and EDGE named an additional 13 fellows based in Asia. The Nat Geo exhibitions team had over 30 Photo Ark exhibitions on display at nonprofit venues around the world. This includes the Annenberg Space for Photography, the Miami Zoo and the London Zoo. Last Wilderness Partnerships--National Geographic envisions a world where intact wilderness areas containing the bulk of biodiversity on our planet, are resilient to-and help us mitigate-climate change, and continue providing the goods and services that are essential for humanity's survival. Our goal is to help protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030. This includes not only preserving areas that are intact, but also restoring areas that may have suffered some human impacts. To address this crisis, the National Geographic Society has developed Last Wild Places, a decade-long initiative to help protect the places that sustain life on Earth. Harnessing expertise developed throughout the Society's 130-year history, Last Wild Places is uniquely positioned to build upon National Geographic's extraordinary legacy of science, exploration, and storytelling to drive impact. Through an integrated approach that supports actionable science, accelerates the adoption of best practices in conservation, uses the latest technology, and inspires people to care for the world around them, we aim to develop a new narrative for nature. In 2019 the program supported five conservation initiatives: American Prairie Reserve, Gorongosa National Park, African Parks, Tompkins Conservation, and the Okavango Wilderness Project.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4a Storytelling & Outreach cont.	The National Geographic Museum store helps visitors take National Geographic home with them by offering captivating books and unique handmade products from around the globe as well as travel accessories that will help guide them on their way. Much of the merchandise relates directly to content in the exhibitions in the museum. Many of the products also contain descriptive histories educating visitors about indigenous peoples or endangered species around the world. National Geographic Live, the Society's signature live event series, had successful spring and fall seasons in 2019 featuring 84 events including lectures and special programs hosted by scientists, photographers, and film makers. Our popular after-hours exploration series continued in 2019 Nat Geo Nights is a monthly series and invites guests to visit after work and hear stories from the field by some of National Geographic's youngest explorers. The Virtual Reality Theater hosted 8 sold out events. The museum also hosted several film festivals in 2019 and 10 student matinees for school groups in Washington, DC and throughout the region. The Storytelling Productions team produces videos that further the goals of the National Geographic Society and its programs. Media is created to achieve measureable results amongst targeted audiences and are distributed during live events, on NGS digital and social platforms, and in classrooms. Additionally, videos were screened at global events such as UN World Wildlife Day and film festivals. In 2019, close to 300 videos were produced, contributing to the marketing, fundraising, conservation, and educational initiatives of the Society. National Geographic Society Digital produces digital content and applications for current and potential funders, influencers, partner organizations, policy makers, teachers/Educators, Explorers, and targeted public audiences. In 2019, the team introduced new applications and a number of significant improvements to existing web properties and applications. Here are a few of the highlights from 2019: * Launched a web site for Campaign for Nature, the NGS partnership with the Wyss Foundation. * Extended the Sumatran Rhino Alliance site to enable NGS Communications to update content and publish press releases. This site is the unbranded hub for all the partnerships involved in the Sumatran Rhino Alliance. * Launched a new online event ticket purchase user experience that significantly improved the usability and has resulted in an increase in users completing checkout. * Integrated museum kiosks developed specifically for the Becoming Jane exhibit with back-office systems to enable NGS to operate a marketing campaign to visitors encouraging them to follow through on their pledge to protect wildlife. * Updated the GeoBee trivia games available on iOS, Android, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Echo Show, and Google Home platforms to support new version OS versions and correct usability issues reported by end users. The Storytelling team manages all media (photos and videos) submitted by Explorers in the field. In 2019, the team oversaw the Storytelling Grants, Programs and Fellowships, which awarded over $4.5 million to 102 of the world's best conservation and natural-world storytellers and supported hundreds of underserved youth, and early career photographers and local news outlets as part of the Photo Camp, 2nd assistant and Lenfest Programs. Museum & Traveling Exhibits National Geographic creates exhibitions that allow visitors to experience the mission of the Society in a unique and highly educational setting. Each year, the National Geographic Museum presents exhibitions and programs that expand on National Geographic content and extend the life of the stories the Society tells not only in Washington, but also in museums around the country and around the world. The National Geographic Museum welcomed 160,000 visitors in 2019, including 10,000 students and school groups. The museum hosted one major exhibition "The Queens of Egypt" and created public programming and educational materials that complemented the experience. The museum also launched a new exhibition in November 2019, "Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall." This multimedia exhibition celebrates the legacy of one of National Geographic's best known and beloved explorers. In addition, the museum toured many of its exhibitions to locations around the world. The most popular of these exhibitions include "PhotoArk" "50 Greatest Photographs" and a new exhibition "Planet or Plastic?" The museum hosted over 80 community programs, including Student Matinee programs, evening lectures, panel discussions, and special film screenings that inspired, educated, and enriched the lives of thousands in the Washington, D.C., area. The audience for the museum includes National Geographic members, local residents, national and international tourists, military personnel, congressional members and staffs, the diplomatic community, school groups, and students from around the region and beyond. Many of the exhibitions that originate at the National Geographic Museum are then offered to other museums around the United States and internationally, so the audiences continue to grow for these projects even after they close in Washington. The National Geographic Society's Marketing & Engagement team catalyzes widespread understanding, engagement, admiration and support for the mission and impact of National Geographic. It propels and safeguards National Geographic's reputation and integrity and its work to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world. The team achieves this through strategic communications, marketing and branding, programmatic engagement, events, partnerships and targeted outreach. It focuses on diverse, targeted audiences, including donors and supporters, scientists and academia, explorers, thought leaders, influencers, partner NGOs, press and the public. In 2019, the Marketing & Engagement team's outreach in support of National Geographic's nonprofit mission included: - Continuation of the National Geographic Explorers Festival, which engaged members, donors, educators, scientists, grantees/explorers and the public around the National Geographic Society's commitment to investing in scientists, explorers, educators and storytellers to change the world. In 2019, the Explorers Festival continued the international series, convening groups of donors, explorers and thought leaders in London and Mexico City. - Hosting the Education Summit, gathering educator leaders from across North America to participate in capacity- and community-building opportunities. Additionally, at the Summit, National Geographic unveiled a new education strategy, defining National Geographic as a major player in the education space. - Leading major communications and outreach campaigns around groundbreaking research supported by the National Geographic Society, including the search for Amelia Earhart's remains, the discovery of the slave ship Clotilda, and an expedition to Mount Everest that resulted in the installation of the world's highest weather station. Collectively, these campaigns resulted in major media coverage in publications and outlets around the globe. - Continuing press, social media and community outreach on behalf of the Campaign for Nature (CFN), a partnership between the Wyss Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Through participation in events like the first-ever Nature Champions Summit, bringing Indigenous partners, world leaders in government and industry, and philanthropists together, CFN is working to advance an ambitious conservation agenda when parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meet to renegotiate a strategic plan for safeguarding Earth's biodiversity.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4c Education Programs, cont.	The Education team at National Geographic offers a series of online courses for teachers designed to help them learn strategies and content to implement in their classrooms. The courses are designed to develop an explorer's mindset in students (based on National Geographic's Learning Framework), be authentic, engaging, connected to instructional practice, and to deepen and broaden content knowledge. In 2019 we offered our three existing long courses--Connecting Geo-Inquiry to Your Teaching Practice, Teaching Global Change in Your Classroom, and Integrating Service with Learning Goals--3 times each, reaching 3,222 teachers. We also built and piloted two additional courses: Collecting Data to Explore Plastic Pollution in our Communities, and Mapping as a Visualization and Communication Tool in your Classroom with a reach of 600 teachers. The Geo-Inquiry Process relies on using a geographic perspective, offering a unique lens to analyze space, place, and the interconnections between the human and natural world. Using both a geographic perspective and the Geo-Inquiry Process, students begin to connect complex components, see patterns, and make connections that change their communities. The five-step process guides students to ASK geographic questions they want answered, COLLECT data that will help answer their questions, VISUALIZE how they should best present this data, CREATE a presentation to help tell their geo-inquiry story, and finally to use these stories to ACT on a plan to address their questions. NGS is delivering training for educators around using the Geo-Inquiry process in their own classrooms to help their students learn about the world and how it works, so they can succeed and make it a better place. We deliver this training through in-person workshops and a new 30-hour online course entitled "Connecting the Geo-Inquiry Process to Your Teaching Practice." In 2018, National Geographic Education closed out the 30+ year old model of distributing grants through the Network of Alliances for Geographic Education to a new, regional-based, National Geographic Society-staffed, National Geographic Educator Network. The Educator Network improves upon the alliance-based network model of program delivery to allow National Geographic to achieve an even greater direct impact on students and educators more efficiently. At its core, the Network provides in-person and online learning opportunities for like-minded educators to engage with National Geographic resources and, most importantly, with one another. Participants in the Network have access to an online community where they can learn, share, and connect with National Geographic's explorers, photographers, and storytellers. In 2019, the Educator Network reached more than 10,500 educators with professional learning and priority initiatives, convened 51 advisory councils in each U.S. state and Canada. This represents a 180% growth rate in educators impacted over 2018, the Educator Network's initial building year. This program is an in-depth partnership with a school district(s) serving under-resourced communities over the course of one or more years that includes the provision and evaluation of professional development programming and resources designed to empower educators and inspire students. In 2019, NGS partnered with Jackson Public Schools (JPS) in MS and with DC Public Schools (DCPS). For the 2019-2020 school year, NGS supported DCPS professional development days for teachers throughout the year and offered DCPS teachers and students the opportunity to participate in a VR Student Matinee on the Okavango Wilderness Project at NGS HQ. NGS supported JPS with ongoing professsional development opportunities and the creation of custom-built, state-standards aligned, high-quality non-fiction readers. The National Geographic Society is committed to educating students about the world, empowering them to succeed and to make the world a better place by becoming global citizens. In order to support this mission, the Society created an Education Fellows program in late 2017, announcing its first class of five Fellows in January for the 2017-2018 school year. The Education Fellows support innovative project development and project leadership, share their expertise on an emerging issue or priority, and help incubate new ideas for geographic education. Fellows are generally mid- to late-career educators and they range from pre-K-12 classroom teachers, informal educators, academic geographers committed to geographic education, and nonprofit professionals to thought leaders in the education space. The 2019 Fellows supported National Geographic Education's work on GIS, connecting students to explorers through Explorer Classroom program, afterschool education, citizen science, and urban school districts. The Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship is a professional development opportunity made possible by a partnership between Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Education. The program is named in honor of Gilbert M. Grosvenor, chairman emeritus of the National Geographic Society and Education Foundation Board member. It gives current Pre-K-12 classroom teachers and informal educators from the 50 U.S. states, Canada, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico the opportunity to extend Grosvenor's legacy of excellence in geographic education. Exemplary educators are recognized for their commitment to geographic education and are given the opportunity to travel aboard the Lindblad-National Geographic fleet. Through this experience, they bring new geographic awareness into their learning environments and communities. In 2019, the program sent 45 educators on expeditions to such places as the Arctic, Galapagos, Antarctica, Central America, and Alaska. While aboard, educators shared the importance of geographic literacy with fellow travelers, developed activities to bring back to their classrooms, and had the adventure of a lifetime. Prior to their expeditions, all Grosvenor Teacher Fellows traveled to Washington, D.C., for a pre-voyage workshop sponsored by Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic. The 2018 Fellows also completed their year 2 leadership commitment by supporting the work of the National Geographic Education team. The online educator community, externally known as the Educator Network, is an online space with discussion boards where Pre-K-12 educators connect with each other and National Geographic around a shared commitment to teach students about the world, empowering them to succeed and to make it a better place. Educators share best teaching practices, resources, opportunities to collaborate, and feedback for National Geographic. National Geographic also shares free and at-cost resources and opportunities to connect and collaborate, both in-person and online. Examples include professional development opportunities, online courses, and exchanges with Explorers. Special interest groups have their own discussion boards where they connect around certification, the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship, and more. The community officially launched in April 2019 and grew to 7,500+ members. The National Geographic GeoBee is an academic competition for public schools, private schools, and home schools in the United States and its territories as well as Department of Defense Dependents Schools. Students in grades 4-8 compete to win $40,000 in scholarships and other prizes. In the 2019 program, 9,727 schools across the country held a National Geographic GeoBee, engaging 2,529,020 students to learn about the world and how it works. Up to 100 school winners in each state went on to compete in the state competition, and the state champions traveled to Society headquarters in Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Finals. National Geographic created and distributed school GeoBee packets that included a question booklet, rules, participation certificates, and a champion medal. The Society also generated a number of study tools for students, including online quizzes and voice-activated apps. Additionally, the Society administered state competitions in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and created and disseminated question booklets, procedures, and prizes. The GeoBee culminated in three days of competition in Washington, D.C., in May, with the final day dedicated to the Championship round positioning the top 3 students in a competition to determine the first-, second-, and third-place overall winners.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4b Scientific Research and Exploration Programs, cont.	Out of Eden--Over the past seven years, moving at the beat of his footsteps, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek has walked a large part of the original 21,000-mile pathways of the first human ancestors who migrated out of Africa during the Stone Age. Guided by the latest scientific discoveries and propelled by insightful storytelling, Salopek's immensely long odyssey, called the Out of Eden Walk, is an exploration of the critical issues of our time - from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival - as told through the lives of the ordinary people who inhabit these stories every day. In this way, he is reconnecting readers from across the globe with their common past - and with a vision of shared humanity that transcends borders, languages, politics, religions, and continents. In effect, the walk's "slow journalism" offers a thoughtful and innovative storytelling alternative to the shallower distractions of our wired, frenzied world. So far, Salopek has trekked from Ethiopia to Myanmar. In the years ahead, he will inch through SE Asia, China, Siberia, and the New World to his journey's finish line in Argentina's chilly Tierra del Fuego, the last wild horizon trod by Homo sapiens. In 2019, Salopek completed his year-long trek across northern India and entered Myanmar, moving from South Asia into Southeast Asia and beginning a new phase of the walk with different cultural, topographical, and biological landscapes. Illegal Wildlife Trade --the Illegal Wildlife Trade program leverages National Geographic's power of storytelling to raise awareness, inspire action, and provide critical tools to reduce the trade in illegal wildlife. The primary storytelling platform is the blog Wildlife Watch, which is dedicated to shining light on commercial-scale exploitation of wildlife and other valued resources, identifying weaknesses in national and international efforts to protect wildlife, and empowering institutions and individuals working for a better world. Stories cover a range of human activity, from crime to heroism. In 2019, a number of Wildife Watch stories appeared in National Geographic Magazine including a story on U.S. captive tigers, the illegal pangolin trade and illegal wildlife tourism. All stories were then distributed to specific stakeholders. National Geographic's Perpetual Planet Impact Initiative is a multiyear effort to endeavor upon a groundbreaking scientific agenda to understand climate change topics in remote regions. We are studying three of Earth's most critical life support systems: mountains as water towers, rainforests as water and carbon pumps, and the least studied parts of the ocean.The Perpetual Planet expeditions will generate rich stories about changes to Earth's physical geography and how wildlife and human societies are adapting to changing climatic conditions. High-profile expeditions to each environment will highlight these systems and generate new knowledge. In 2019, the Perpetual Planet team of scientists completed a multi-faceted expedition to Mount Everest studying meteorology, geology, glaciology, mapping, and biology. The expedition successfully installed the highest weather stations and collected the highest ice core samples. The open-source meteorological data collected from the weather stations is publically available. The Perpetual Planet Expedition team has donated gear such as: a raft for lake coring to Ananta Gajurel of Tribhuvan University, first aid supplies to the Himalayan Rescue Association and Sherpa community of Phortse, clothing to various porters and the Sherpa community of Phortse, dehydrated high-altitude food to the community of Phortse, weather stations to the Government of Nepal, and a drone to Tribhuvan University in Nepal. In addition to completing the first marquee scientific expedition, the team awarded two rounds of High Alpine Climate Change grants, hosted three international convenings, released the Water Tower Index and published a scientific paper in Nature. This work informs our continued study of Earth's vulnerable mountain regions, rainforests, and ocean in 2020 and beyond. Clotilda--the National Geographic Society supported the search for the last slaveship to the U.S., the "Clotilda," through experimental research in a zero visibility highly silted underwater environment. The positive ID of the discoveries allowed us to turn the page on an undocumented chapter in the American history of slavery. Researcher Dr. James Delgado was deployed with high technology - sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profile machinery to survey a stretch of the Mobile River where the shipwreck was located. The local community has been transformed by this discovery and the reclamation of their lost history. The project culminated in a major digital news story on nationalgeographic.com as well as a future National Geographic magazine cover story scheduled for February 2020. Search for Amelia Earhart--The National Geographic Society supported a search for National Geographic gold medal recipient Amelia Earhart's remains in the South Pacific (the Amelia Expedition). Using advanced technology both underwater and on land as well as the use of ancient DNA analysis. The project was documented as part of television special which aired on the National Geographic Channel in October 2019. National Geographic's Exploration Technology Lab uses technology development to build and deploy systems and hardware to accelerate exploration and understanding of our cultural and natural heritage. In 2019 the Lab has focused on Extreme Exploration, Exploration Technology, and Conservation Technology. Under our Extreme Exploration focus, the Exploration Technology Team collaborated with the Perpetual Planet Everest science team on the design, testing and deployment of five automated weather stations along the ascent of Mt. Everest, culminating in the highest weather stations ever installed anywhere on the planet. As part of the Everest Expedition, the Exploration Technology Lab also worked with Explorer Corey Jaskolski to create high resolution scans of the Nepalese side of Mt Everest. To date, deep sea cams, designed for sampling the deep sea and monitoring ocean health, were deployed over 100 times around the world, including for the first time the Southern Antarctic. For the first time, deep sea video from around the world has been plotted onto a global map with a baseline deep sea biodiversity index applied. For Conservation Technology, National Geographic and Esri partnered together to develop the Esri ArcGIS Online solution-ArcGIS for Protected Area Management (PAM)-to provide area managers with a suite of geospatial apps which support key workflows essential for managing natural areas in Africa. The Exploration Technology Lab also supported the discovery of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last American slave ship which smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860. Our team supported the search for the remains of the ship and analyzed a nail from the wreck and found that it was nearly 99 percent pure iron, consistent with fasteners used in shipbuilding in Alabama in the 1850s.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4b Scientific Research and Exploration Programs, cont.	The Geographic Visualization Lab aims to transform the way people experience, understand, and appreciate natural and cultural diversity and the need for conservation through the creation of digital experiences. The Geographic Visualization Lab has built EarthPulse, a password protected automated monitoring and reporting systems that enables senior decision makers to measure progress towards conservation goals around the globe. Additionally, the Geographic Visualization Lab has collaborated with Google Geo for Good and World Resources Institute on Dynamic World - the first ever 1 billion label training dataset for machine learning based land use/land cover mapping. This training dataset, which includes over 25,000 densely-annotated scenes of European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, will enable progress in automated, dynamic land cover mapping and monitoring to support a range of NGS and partner organization missions. The Geographic Visualization Lab also joined the Allen Coral Atlas partnership, led by Vulcan, Inc. which is using high resolution satellite imagery to create the first global map of coral reefs, including methodology (in development) to identify changes in these reef systems. The NGS team is leading Field Engagement for the Atlas. This year, the Allen Coral Atlas Southwest Pacific maps became live. These maps are new benthic and geomorphic maps of Tonga, Vanuatu, Niue, New Caledonia, Samoa, American Samoa, and a refresher of Fiji. This totals over 22,000 km2 of coral reef area mapped. The Geographic Visualization Lab also provides Geographic Services for internal and external National Geographic Society use. In 2019, the Geographic Visualization Lab supported 10+ different NGS teams and initiatives through geospatial analysis, mapping, research, and general geographic consultation. The Citizen Explorer Lab is working with the world's leading organizations in citizen science and open innovation to empower students, educators, innovators, community organizers, and individuals worldwide to contribute critical data needed to secure the natural systems that are essential for all life. The Citizen Explorer Lab worked with the NGS Explorer Programs and International teams to develop iNaturalist BioBlitz events, in which NGS Explorers partner with local educators to create custom biodiversity data collection experiences for students that tie back into the classroom's learning objectives.This activity facilitated greater appreciation and understanding of local biodiversity across 11 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and encouraged 1,030 students to document and protect their local species. It also created a greater connection between 20 Explorers, 348 local researchers and 94 teachers that live in communities surrounding NatGeo funded research (Explorers giving back). Their efforts yielded 6,989 new biodiversity observations across 1,781 species. In October 2019, the Citizen Explorer Lab hosted a convening on Latin American Participation in the iNaturalist Network in Merida, Mexico consisting of current members of the iNaturalist Network in Latin America, as well as organizations in the process of joining the Network or supporting major iNaturalist outreach activities in Latin America. Explorer Programs--National Geographic's Explorer Programs empowers our network of science, conservation, education and storytelling grantees through elevation opportunities (e.g, the Explorer-at-Large program, the National Geographic Fellows program, and National Geographic awards); Explorer community in-person and online engagement; Explorer speaking and presentation opportunities; and National Geographic capacity development opportunities such as our National Geographic Sciencetelling Bootcamp. In 2019, National Geographic's Sciencetelling Bootcamp continued to run monthly in-person workshops all over the world. In total we offered ten bootcamps both in the US and abroad in collaboration with International and Education Teams. In 2019 we continued to expand on Spanish Language Sciencetelling Bootcamp offerings, both in-person and online. 2019 was also the launch of the first Sciencetelling Bootcamp online suite of courses including, Video Production, Social Media, Writing, Public Speaking and Photography. The National Geographic Society continues to support the Explorers-in-Residence program to develop and enhance its long-standing relationships with some of the world's preeminent scientists and storytellers. These experts are dedicated to making notable advances in their respective fields and are highly regarded within scientific and exploration circles. National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence's groundbreaking discoveries fuel the kind of critical information, conservation initiatives, and compelling stories that are the hallmark of the National Geographic Society. National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence for 2019 are Enric Sala, marine ecologist; Sylvia Earle, oceanographer; Bob Ballard, ocean explorer; Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist; James Cameron, filmmaker and explorer; Mike Fay, conservationist; Beverly and Dereck Joubert, filmmakers and conservationists; Louise and Meave Leakey, paleontologists; Tom Lovejoy, conservation biologist, and Rodrigo Medellin, ecologist. National Geographic Fellows provide expert consultation on active projects supported by National Geographic that have clear goals and deliverables. They lead novel, ambitious projects that promise to make an impact on the world. Focusing on collaboration with cross-divisional stakeholders at National Geographic, they deliver broad media impact during their term. They represent and illustrate the diversity of disciplines that the Society covers in its scientific and editorial efforts. 2019 National Geographic Fellows include: Willie Buford, educator; Joe Grabowski, educator; Peg Keiner, educator; Anne Lewis, educator; Kerryanne Monahan; Anita Palmer, educator; Rue Mapp, educator; Valencia Clay, educator; Bronwyn Agrios, technology; Katy Croff Bell, archaeological oceanographer; Darlene Cavalier, citizen scientice; Jonatha Giddens, deep-sea research ecologist; Whitney Goodell, marine ecologist, Dan Hammer, environmental data scientist; Anne Haywood, citizen science; Naftali Honig, Wildlife Crime Investigator; Corey Jaskolski, engineer; Elizabeth Tyson, citizen science; James Watson, conservation scientist; Martin Wikelski, ornithologist; Maya Lin, designer, architect, and artist; Davide Monteleone, photographer; Hannah Nordhaus, storytelling; Sandesh Kadur, Wildlife Filmmaker; Photographer; Gautam Shah, Wildlife Storyteller; Thomas P Peschak, Conservation Photographer; Brian Skerry, photographer and photojournalist; Anand Varma, Photographer; Xaquin GV, visual journalist, Evgenia Arbugaeva, photojournalist; Cory Richards, Photojournalist; Steve Boyes, conservation biologist; Amielle DeWan, training and capacity building; Chris Golden, ecologist and epidemiologist; Dominique Gonalves, ecologist; Jenna Jambeck, Environmental Engineer; Matthew Jordan, project management; Heather Koldewey, Marine Biologist, Environmentalist; Danny Kinka, conservation tech, Julia Lee, behavioral scientist, organizational psychologist; Arthur Middleton, biologist; Rudi Putra, conservation biologist; Paul Salopek, journalist; Brent Stirton, Wildlife Crime Photographer; Rae Wynn-Grant, carnivore ecologist. Explorers' Week--National Geographic's annual Explorers Festival engages members, donors, educators, scientists, grantees/explorers around the National Geographic Society's commitment to investing in scientists, explorers, educators, and storytellers to illuminate and protect the wonders of our world. Explorer Programs team supports the Festival by contributing to the internally focused Explorer Symposium as well as leading various explorer engagement efforts, including communications training, leadership training, mentorship, idea generation, and networking. Approximately 200 Explorers participated in the 2019 Explorers Festival.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4c Education Programs	In the 2019-20 school year, the GeoChallenge competition was offereed free in all 50 states plus D.C. by issuing a challenge entitled "Tackling Plastic!" that invited participants to create solutions to the single-use plastic crisis while building skills in geography, mapmaking, storytelling, and video production. A total of 5,973 teams registered to participate in the GeoChallenge and 1,041 teams submitted projects. National Geographic Live Student Matinees bring groundbreaking scientists, photographers, and explorers out of the field and onto stages across the United States and North America. Through compelling storytelling, these speakers offer exciting knowledge from the front lines of discovery, and highlight the critical importance of science, exploration, and conservation. Connecting these powerful role models directly with students inspires a new generation of explorers. In 2019, Student Matinee programs reached over 30,000 students in dozens of cities across North America, including Washington, D.C.; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Chicago; Lone Tree, Colorado; Los Angeles; Indianapolis; Kansas City, Missouri; Mesa, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4b Scientific Research and Exploration Programs cont.	National Geographic's Early Career Leadership Program (formerly called the Young Explorer Leadership and Development Program) is a year-long opportunity for researchers, conservationists, storytellers, and educators to engage with National Geographic and collaborate with each other during the crucial early years of their careers. This program arms the Society's promising younger explorers with the skills, experiences, and support necessary to propel their careers to the next level through mentorship, media and leadership training, and project development guidance. National Geographic wants to help seed future generations of leaders - individuals who, together with the Society, will tackle global challenges with enthusiasm, commitment, and curiosity, generating transformative solutions to key challenges. In 2019 National Geographic selected our second cohort for the program which was launched with a pilot from 2017-2018. In 2019 the participants came to NGS headquarters for a week of leadership training, media training and other events. Throughout the remainder of the year they joined monthly webinars to learn from NG staff and expert explorers about topics such leadership skills, effective social media, and using citizen science in their community. The participants were also each paired with a National Geographic Educator and planned activities with their classrooms. The Early Career Leadership Program 2019-2020 cohort comprises Gabrielle Corradino, marine ecologist; Alberto Borges, ecologist; Giovanni Chimienti, marine biologist; Imogen Napper, marine biologist; Salome Buglass, marine ecologist; Llenel (Ellie) Gonzales de Castro, archaeologist; Lina Marcela Aragon, biologist; Maurice Oniango, documentary filmmaker; Munmun Dhalaria, documentary filmmaker; Tutilo Mudumba, wildlife ecologist; Wangechi Kiongo, environmental conservationist; Gena Steffens, photographer, writer; Marcello Calisti, engineer; Leonardo Lanna, conservation biologist; Kate McNally, environmental anthropologist; Catalina Velasco, marine biologist; Vanessa Bezy, marine biologist; Gretchen Johnson, biologist and Patrick Smallhorn-West, ecologist. Senior members of the explorer community serve as mentors for the programs. The 2019-2020 mentors for this program are Asha De Vos, Shane Gero, Maria Fadiman, Marina Elliot, Adjany Costa, Jonatha Giddens, Erika Larse, Tierney Tys, Whitney Goodell, Sandesh Kadur, Lilliana Guittierez, Peg Keiner, Brennan Phillips, Ronan Donovan, Katy Croff Bell, Paula Rodriguez, Gregg Trienish, Losang Ragbey. Explorer Community--National Geographic provides online and in-person environments to develop and catalyze our Explorers to accelerate their work by sharing ideas, solutions, and resources as well as scale their impact and influence in their own networks and local communities. Explorers share the values of the Explorers Mindset including collaboration, curiosity, leadership, and the desire to tell their stories. In 2019, we continued to roll out National Geographic Explorer Hubs (formerly called Chapters) to help Explorers connect with each other within specific geographic regions and with their own communities. Additionally, we held Explorer community activities in key regions in London, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Kenya and Washington, D.C. to train and empower Explorers. We continued to build out our online Explorer Community and on-boarded an additional 1000 of our Explorers into the Online Community for a total of 1,600 community members who are sharing ideas and leading discussions with one another to develop skills and help each other problem-solve. Mentorship Program--Formal Explorer Mentorship is embedded into two cohort based programs at National Geographic Society, the Early Career Leadership Program (previously called the Young Explorer Leadership and Development Program) and the Fulbright-NGS Fellowship Program. The Explorers serving as mentors in 2019 are: Zeb Hogan, Sophia Jones, Tara Roberts, Jennifer Berglund, Asha De Vos, Shane Gero, Maria Fadiman, Marina Elliot, Adjany Costa, Jonatha Giddens, Erika Larse, Tierney Tys, Whitney Goodell, Sandesh Kadur, Lilliana Guittierez, Peg Keiner, Brennan Phillips, Ronan Donovan, Katy Croff Bell, Paula Rodriguez, Gregg Trienish, and Losang Ragbey. Grant Programs--the Grants Program provided grants that fit into the Society's three focus lenses: Changing Planet, Wildlife, and Human Journey. The grants covered conservation, education, research, storytelling, and technology, and funded work all over the world. In addition, the Society awarded Early Career grants to find and support the next generation of global change-makers. Changing Planet--Changing Planet grants focus on our Earth's dynamic terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. These are the foundations of life on the planet, yet are increasingly threatened by exploitation, mismanagement, and climate change. We seek projects that illuminate these issues to better inform decision making and to develop more effective models for conservation and protected area management at large scales. This area of focus seeks to reduce negative human impacts on ecosystems and Earth processes by increasing knowledge, inspiring action, and creating solutions with direct, quantifiable, and scalable methods for conserving landscapes or seascapes. In 2019, grants were awarded in the following topics: Extreme Environments: Alpine Climate Change; Protecting the Last Wild Places; Reducing Ocean Plastic Pollution. Wildlife--Wildlife includes species-focused projects and the local evolutionary and ecological processes that sustain them. Although extinction is a natural part of evolution, the current accelerated loss of species means that we need novel approaches and solutions that support biological diversity and abundance. This area of focus supports projects that seek to discover and identify species and ecosystems and to mitigate threats to Earth's life forms. Projects will improve understanding of biological diversity, including behavior, life history, evolution, ecology, and habitat requirements. In 2019, grants were awarded in the following topics: Big Cats Conservation; Species Recovery; Making the Case for Nature; and Species Discovery. Human Journey--Human Journey Grants focus on learning more about who we are and what our future will be on this planet. It supports projects in a range of fields that are helping us understand the origins and development of our species; how we modified and adapted to diverse landscapes across the globe; the evolution of cultures and societies; and the current status of and trends in our cultural, linguistic, and genetic diversity. Recognizing that human society is currently out of balance with the natural world, we also seek projects that propose solutions to mitigate this imbalance. In 2019, grants were awarded in the following topics: Human Origins in Africa and Asia; Ancient DNA.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Misc. Program Services, cont.	Engaged and healthy workforce Sustainability is a regular part of new employee orientation and all occupants of headquarters' buildings are encouraged to join the Green Team help improve sustainability in building operations. All employees and tenants are encouraged to actively participate in and create the many, varied sustainability events and initiatives on campus including Earth Week, green courtyard markets, campus gardening, green news, Bike to Work Day, staff beekeeping, and corporate responsibility groups. Lessons learned for the workplace also help encourage healthier and more sustainable activities outside the office. The Society encourages bicycle commuting through the provision of sidewalk bike racks for the public, garaged bike racks and bike room for employees, bike maintenance stands and air pumps, lockers, showers, employee discounts at bike shops, free membership with bike sharing services, and being an official pit stop on Bike to Work Day. Carpooling and the use of low-emission vehicles are supported through parking discounts and free charging for electric vehicles. Discounts with local car shares are offered to employees and tenants. Employees can benefit from a metro commuting subsidy or bicycle commuter subsidy. Exercise fitness areas are available to all staff members and tenants and were recently renovated and expanded. A rooftop herb garden staffed by National Geographic employees supplies herbs to the Cafeteria. A local, sustainable farm sells CSA shares and runs a weekly farm stand in the headquarters courtyard throughout the summer, fall and early winter. Monthly throughout the summer, a green market is held in the courtyard featuring local and sustainable businesses. A "Swap Meet" is held several times a year in which employees can give away personal items they no longer want (e.g. clothes, books, toys, jewelry, small appliances) and take home personal items given by others, with any remaining items donated to local charities. Employees and tenants can bring 'difficult to recycle' CFLs and batteries and plastic film from home to designated collection areas year-round and bring in personal electronics to annual e-cycling events. Specific achievements in 2019: * Committed to no single-use plastic for on campus events and food service * As part of Planet or Plastic Initiative, completed audit of National Geographic supply chains to determine extent of plastic waste and began working toward eliminating it * Gave away for re-use several tons of furniture, office supplies, and art supplies * Maintained extensive recycling and reuse programs while completing relocation of most building occupants and welcoming several hundred new tenants (The Embassy of Australia). The National Geographic Society Library The National Geographic Library's reading room is open to the public by appointment, and library and archives staffers respond to phone calls, letters and emails. In 2019 they handled some 400 queries from scholars and members of the public. They also provided more than 50 tours of the library & archives, including researchers, VIPs, grantees, student groups, and professional colleagues from other libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions. Librarians participated in regional interlibrary loan, lending items from the physical collection to various DC-area libraries. Finally, hundreds of books and magazines were donated to nonprofit organizations.
Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Description of other program services	(Expenses $ 269,105 including grants of $ 269,105)(Revenue $ 7,084,120) In 2019, miscellaneous program activity included a 1-time stock option exercise in an educational cruise-ship partner, an impact investing directive, continuing sustainability initiatives, and a reading room and library open to the public. In 2019, NGS realized $6.7 million in revenue recognition from the exercise of stock options to purchase shares in an educational cruise partner of National Geographic Partners. NGS IMPACT INVESTING The Investment Subcommittee with the approval of the Finance Committee directed the Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) to deploy a portion of the investment fund to impact investments within the guidelines of the total portfolio. The OCIO has the flexibility to invest across asset classes and will be measured against the MSCI All Country World Index (net) over a full market cycle. Impact parameters must demonstrate strong alignment with one or more of NGS' global mission priorities to help protect species-at-risk, better understand human history and culture, and conserve some of our planet's last wild places. Relevant investment strategies may include but are not limited to environmental sustainability, conservation, resource efficiency, cultural diversity, and education. 2019 SUSTAINABILITY The National Geographic Society remains committed to operating more sustainably in its own facilities and in its expectations of suppliers, vendors, and partners. The Society's headquarters became the first LEED-EB certified buildings (2003), and, through ongoing tracking of energy usage, maintenance activities, waste, office and building supplies, and renovation activity the Society has maintained continuous LEED-EB certification, rising from silver to gold in 2009. In building renovations completed in 2019, existing-building LEED considerations were taken into account throughout the process. The renovated spaces added daylight harvesting and the 17th St building switched from mainly T8 to LED lighting - reducing mercury content and increasing energy savings. The renovation also allowed the 17th St building to add independent HVAC controls enabling half floors to be powered on or off rather than necessitating an entire floor being conditioned when only a small space is in use. All the new carpet installed was Interface, renowned for its recycled content . Construction teams were tasked with detailed attention to recycling as much construction waste as possible, including old carpet and ceiling tiles recycled with their original manufacturers. All renovation purchasing is being applied toward the Society's 7th LEED certification. Sustainability goals The Society has adopted a Corporate Responsibility Policy that it shares with employees, suppliers, vendors, and partners. In 2019 a joint Sustainability Governance Committee was formed with National Geographic Society and National Geographic Partners was formed to continually evaluate, update, and further corporate responsibility policies and goals. The Society also continues to work toward four core company-wide sustainability goals: * to become a carbon neutral company * to work toward zero landfill waste * to practice wise resource stewardship * to have an engaged and healthy workforce Becoming a carbon neutral company The society performs an annual carbon assessment of its Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon emissions. The goal is to quantify carbon emissions from Society activities, reduce such emissions as much as possible, and offset emissions that cannot be eliminated. The Society purchases RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) to offset all the electrical usage of its owned buildings and leased space. Offsets also are purchased for emissions at Society-owned buildings and leased space and business travel emissions. Day to day operations are continually evaluated and improved to seek maximum energy efficiency. Sending zero waste to the landfill The Society seeks to reduce waste produced at its headquarters and to reuse, recycle or compost as much as possible. Employees and tenants share office supplies in communal copy rooms, a large recycling area, and regular building Swap Meets to reduce the need to purchase new office supplies, packaging material, furniture, and more. Employees, tenants and guests are urged to use reusable dishware and refill bottles at water fountains rather than use disposable containers and utensils. Furniture, equipment, supplies, and Nat Geo products that can't be used at the headquarters are offered for re-use to local nonprofits, schools, museums, and artists. Recycling and composting is encouraged on every floor with centralized waste centers located through the buildings for employees, tenants and guests. Recycling and upcycling streams include paper, metals, glass, plastics, electronics, plastic film, plastic bags, and construction materials. Practicing the wise use of resources Paper suppliers to the Society are asked to provide paper from certified forestry sources and never from old-growth or high-conservation-value designated forests and to never provide paper bleached with elemental chlorine. National Geographic Society activities and services are to be legally and ethically conducted by treating employees, environments, and cultures with respect. Suppliers who provide manufacturing services to the Society are expected to follow Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production principles as defined by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) - including such measures as reusing waste, process modification, and the awareness and reduction of hazardous materials use. Only green-e certified cleaning products and low or non-VOC paints are used in the Society's headquarters. In addition, many of the building materials used in the Society are made from recycled material. Water Restoration Certificates are purchased to offset water usage in the DC headquarters. Butterfly gardens and beehives on the headquarters grounds and rooftop support endangered species and educational efforts. Meatless Monday discounts are offered to all employees, tenants, and guests to promote consumption of delicious, nutritious, yet less resource intensive foods. The type of supplies purchased for use at headquarters and the disposal of all items is tracked for LEED-EB, ensuring ongoing improvement in sustainable purchasing and landfill diversion. In conjunction with the National Geographic Plastic or Planet? Initiative, the Society has made a special effort to remove single-use plastic waste and unnecessary plastic at headquarters. Special event badges and parking tags have been changed from plastic to paper. All staff kitchens stock reusable dishware and utensils. Coffee makers and bottleless water coolers with CO2 in each kitchen allows staff to fill reusable mugs and bottles. In the Cafeteria, straws are paper and all to-go food packaging except for one windowed box and some pre-packaged snacks are compostable. Some snacks are provided in returnable glass containers for a deposit. Bottled water is provided in recyclable metal bottles. A supply chain audit was completed in 2019 and multiple suppliers and National Geographic teams are working on plastic pollution free ideas and solutions for their businesses. Continued on Sch. O Other Miscellaneous Programs.
Form 990, Part V, Line 3b Reason for not filing Form 990-T	The 990T is on extension awaiting final K-1 investment information necessary to prepare a complete and accurate return.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b Review of form 990 by governing body	The Society's Form 990 was prepared by tax and financial staff at the Society, and was reviewed by senior management, including the President and Chief Legal Officer. It was also reviewed by the Society's outside tax advisors. A draft of this Form 990 was provided to the full Board of Trustees for comments and questions, and a conference call was held in which all Board members had an opportunity to participate in commenting and addressing any questions or issues about the draft 990. If any revisions result from the call, another copy is then provided to each of the Trustees for any additional questions, comments, or input before it was filed with the IRS.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c Conflict of interest policy	The National Geographic Society maintains a Code of Ethics stating the Society's expectation that staff (employees), officers and third party representatives (including independent contractors, consultants, business partners and others who support our mission or receive our funds), will perform their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the highest standards of ethical conduct. The Code of Ethics is published internally, and on the Society's public facing Website https://www.nationalgeographic.org/ethics/. The Code of Ethics is rooted in the Society's commitment to carry out its mission in a manner that earns the respect of everyone we interact with including charitable donors, business associates, third party representatives, Society members, our staff, explorers, fellows, grantees and the general public. In recognition that accomplishing this objective depends on the individual commitment of our staff and business partners to acting with personal integrity, the following core principles apply: (1) we will conduct every aspect of our business in a fair, lawful and ethical manner; (2) we will encourage and expect everyone we work with to do the same; and (3) we will maintain a culture that reinforces these principles. The Code of Ethics includes the Society's Conflict of Interest Policy, which (1) defines potential conflicts of interest and provides several illustrative examples; (2) requires disclosure of any potential conflict to the Society; and (3) prohibits a conflicted staff member from engaging in any activity or decision-making concerning a potential conflict of interest in the absence of disclosure and independent resolution (including recusal and other steps deemed appropriate to resolve the potential conflict) by the Society, as set forth as follows in the terms of the policy itself: "Avoid Conflicts of Interest A conflict of interest arises when you, a family member, or a close friend has a business, financial, or personal interest in the other side of a transaction or business dealing with the National Geographic Society. You must always act in the best interest of the Society. This includes being sensitive to situations where it might appear that your responsibility to the Society has been compromised. Here are some ways a conflict of interest might arise: Having a personal, family, or financial interest in any Society transaction Acting as an employee or consultant for, or providing any other assistance to, a competitor Having a financial interest in a competitor, supplier, contractor, grantee, fellow, consultant, or other business partner Hiring or supervising a family member Accepting gifts, discounts, or services beyond policy limits from anyone doing (or seeking) business with the National Geographic Society Most potential conflicts can be resolved in a simple and mutually acceptable way. The key is to disclose the issue promptly-before it becomes an actual conflict that could compromise your responsibility to act exclusively in the National Geographic Society's best interest. If you have a potential conflict of interest, you must report it to your manager-before you engage in any activity related to the situation. Your manager, in consultation with you, Human Resources, and Law &Business Affairs, will determine what measures should be taken to resolve it appropriately. Such measures typically include recusing yourself from any decision relating to the matter. If you are unsure but have questions, get help from your manager, Human Resources or the Society's ethics officer. Gifts and Gratuities Staff members may not receive any gift worth more than $100 from any person or organization doing business with the National Geographic Society. Staff members involved in purchasing decisions must take extra care to avoid any gifts that might affect, or appear to affect, their decision-making responsibilities on behalf of the National Geographic Society. Additionally, the Society's Code of Ethics expressly prohibits bribery and all other forms of corruption; sets standards for conducting diligence and for approval of certain third party business relationships; and mandates reporting of any potential issues to the Society's Ethic's Officer, or other designated Society representative as set forth in the Code of Ethics: Corruption and Bribery - Strictly Prohibited Every country we work in has laws against corruption and bribery. We take compliance with these laws seriously. As a U.S.-based organization, the National Geographic Society focuses particular attention on the anti-bribery standards of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. We may not offer, promise, pay, give, or approve any bribe, kickback, or other inducement in the form of cash or anything else of value (such as gifts, travel, entertainment, or charitable contributions) to any person or organization with the intent to exert improper influence over the recipient, induce the recipient to violate their duty of loyalty, secure an improper advantage for the National Geographic Society, or improperly reward the recipient for past conduct. Nor may we allow any third party representative (such as customs clearance brokers, independent contractors, consultants, business partners, or anyone else) to do so on our behalf. Our Anti-Corruption policy sets standards that must be followed in our relationships with explorers, fellows, grantees, third party representatives, field workers ('fixers'), exhibitors, and recipients of charitable donations. Additionally, there are special standards that apply to our interactions with government officials (including travel, accommodations, meals, and entertainment). If you think that an improper payment has been solicited, offered, or made, you must promptly report it to the ethics officer, or another contact listed on the last page of the Code. The Society requires each of its employees including its officers to complete a business conduct certification (referred to as the Society's 'Ethics and Policies Pledge') as a condition of continuing employment annually. Each staff member is required to affirm that: * I have read and I understand my obligations under the National Geographic Society's Code of Ethics. I agree to comply with the Code, the Society's policies, and laws that apply to my responsibilities on behalf of the Society. * I understand that I am obligated to report all potential Code, policy or legal violations I am aware of. I am familiar with the options available to me for asking questions or reporting a potential violation. * I am not aware of any potential violation, or I have reported all potential violations that I am aware of. (A staff member who is aware of an unreported potential violation is prompted to report it prior to completing the certification.)" The Society maintains an Ethics Helpline operated by an independent third party for reporting potential violations or asking questions concerning the Code of Ethics, the Society's policies and/or legal compliance. The Helpline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Helpline accepts email, web-based and automated phone line submissions, and also offers the option of speaking to a customer service representative. The Helpline accepts anonymous reports and allows an individual who makes a report to receive follow up communications even if he/she chooses to remain anonymous. The Society maintains a separate Code of Ethics for its Directors and Trustees, which is based on the same core principles as the Code applicable to the Society's staff and third party partners, and grounded in the same commitment to maintaining the highest standards of ethics and personal integrity. It includes a Conflict of Interest policy applicable to Directors and Trustees specifically, which mandates disclosure of potential direct or indirect material conflicts involving Board-level decisions, as well as recusal from decision-making and voting on a conflict matter. The Society's Board members may contact the General Counsel or Ethics Officer with questions or concerns, and may also avail themselves of the Society's Ethics Helpline. Each Board member submits a Conflict of Interest Certification annually certifying that: there are no conflicts of interest (or disclosing potential conflicts if any may exist); and committing to continuing disclosure should a conflict arise subsequently.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a Process to establish compensation of top management official	The Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society has delegated authority to the Compensation Committee to oversee the compensation and benefits of certain senior executives of the Society. The Committee, which is composed exclusively of independent members of the Board of Trustees, is responsible for overseeing an executive compensation program for the Society's senior executives. The Committee follows the procedures set forth in the IRS regulations under Section 4958 in making compensation decisions. In particular, the Committee engages an independent compensation consultant to prepare and present comparable market data with respect to the Society's cash compensation and benefits programs, and is also advised by outside counsel. The Committee reviews the performance of senior executives and evaluates their compensation and benefits in light of the comparable market data provided by the independent compensation consultant and other relevant factors. The Committee relies on such market data in awarding cash compensation and reviewing benefit programs for the Society's senior executives, and receives an opinion from the independent compensation consultant as to the reasonableness and comparability of the Society's executive compensation and benefits programs to that provided for similar services by similar organizations under similar circumstances. The Committee documents its decisions regarding executive compensation decisions in its minutes. The Chair of the Committee promptly reports all actions taken by the Committee to the full Board of Trustees.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b Process to establish compensation of other employees	The Compensation Committee followed the process described above at meetings held in February, September, & December of 2019 with respect to compensation decisions for the following senior executives positions; President and CEO: EVP, Chief Operations & Financial Officer; EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary; Chief Marketing & Engagement Officer; Chief Administrative Officer; SVP, Global Strategy; Chief Scientist & SVP, Science and Exploration; Executive Director, Yellowstone Project and Special Advisor.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 19 Required documents available to the public	The Society's corporate charter is available to the public through the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Corporations Division. The financial statements of the tax-exempt parent, the National Geographic Society, are made available in this Form 990. The Society does not currently make its audited financial statements available to the public because they are issued on a consolidated basis, which include financial details of the activities of Society's taxable subsidiary which are not disclosed for competitive reasons. The Society's Forms 990 and 990T are available upon request, as well as online at Guidestar.org.
Form 990, Part VIII, Line 2f Other Program Service Revenue	- Total Revenue: , Related or Exempt Function Revenue: , Unrelated Business Revenue: , Revenue Excluded from Tax Under Sections 512, 513, or 514: ;
Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Other Fees	OTHER PROFESSIONAL FEES - Total Expense: 41904639, Program Service Expense: 40560394, Management and General Expenses: , Fundraising Expenses: 1344245;
Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Other changes in net assets or fund balances	Post-retirement Benefits-FAS 158 - 4779624; Grants cancelled/returned - 849245;

Schedule R IRS990ScheduleR

Id Disregarded Entities IdDisregardedEntitiesGrp

Disregarded Entity Name DisregardedEntityName

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1	NG URL HOLDING LLC	BusinessNameLine1Txt

US Address USAddress

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Address Line1	1145 17TH ST NW	AddressLine1Txt
City	WASHINGTON	CityNm
State Abbreviation	DC	StateAbbreviationCd
ZIP	20036	ZIPCd

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Primary Activities	HOLDING COMPANY	PrimaryActivitiesTxt
Legal Domicile State	DC	LegalDomicileStateCd
Total Income	$0	TotalIncomeAmt
End Of Year Assets	$0	EndOfYearAssetsAmt

Direct Controlling Entity Name DirectControllingEntityName

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY	BusinessNameLine1Txt

Id Related Tax Exempt Org IdRelatedTaxExemptOrgGrp

Disregarded Entity Name DisregardedEntityName

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1	NG Foundation for Sci Ex (Asia)	BusinessNameLine1Txt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Primary Activities	grant making	PrimaryActivitiesTxt
Legal Domicile Foreign Country	KS	LegalDomicileForeignCountryCd
Exempt Code Section	501(c)(3)	ExemptCodeSectionTxt
Public Charity Status	8	PublicCharityStatusTxt

Direct Controlling Entity Name DirectControllingEntityName

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Business Name Line1	National Geographic Society	BusinessNameLine1Txt

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Controlled Organization	Yes (true)	ControlledOrganizationInd

Id Related Org Txbl Corp Tr IdRelatedOrgTxblCorpTrGrp (4 entries)

Address Line1USAddress/AddressLine1Txt	CityUSAddress/CityNm	State AbbreviationUSAddress/StateAbbreviationCd	ZIPUSAddress/ZIPCd	EINEIN	Primary ActivitiesPrimaryActivitiesTxt	Legal Domicile StateLegalDomicileStateCd	Business Name Line1DirectControllingEntityName/BusinessNameLine1Txt	Entity TypeEntityTypeTxt	Share Of Total IncomeShareOfTotalIncomeAmt	Share Of EOY AssetsShareOfEOYAssetsAmt	OwnershipOwnershipPct	Controlled OrganizationControlledOrganizationInd	Legal Domicile Foreign CountryLegalDomicileForeignCountryCd
NGSP INC
1145 17TH ST NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20036	161750687	HOLDING CO.	DC	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY	C Corporation	$64,853,000	$1,419,379,000	1	Yes (true)
NGHB INC
1145 17TH ST NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20036	942731426	HOLDING CO.	DC	NGSP INC	C Corporation	$0	$0	1	Yes (true)
NG UK Ltd
					HOLDING COMPANY		NGSP INC	C Corporation	$0	$0	1	Yes (true)	UK
NGTI LTD
					HOLDING COMPANY		NGSP INC	C Corporation	$0	$0	1	Yes (true)	UK

Field	Value	IRS element (for citing)
Receipt Of Int Annts Rnts Rylts	Yes (true)	ReceiptOfIntAnntsRntsRyltsInd
Gift Grnt Or Cap Contri To Oth Org	false	GiftGrntOrCapContriToOthOrgInd
Gift Grnt Cap Contri From Oth Org	false	GiftGrntCapContriFromOthOrgInd
Loans Or Guarantees To Other Org	Yes (true)	LoansOrGuaranteesToOtherOrgInd
Loans Or Guarantees From Oth Org	false	LoansOrGuaranteesFromOthOrgInd
Div Related Organization	Yes (true)	DivRelatedOrganizationInd
Asset Sale To Other Org	false	AssetSaleToOtherOrgInd
Asset Purchase From Other Org	false	AssetPurchaseFromOtherOrgInd
Asset Exchange	false	AssetExchangeInd
Rental Of Facilities To Oth Org	false	RentalOfFacilitiesToOthOrgInd
Rental Of Fclts From Oth Org	false	RentalOfFcltsFromOthOrgInd
Perform Of Services For Oth Org	Yes (true)	PerformOfServicesForOthOrgInd
Perform Of Services By Other Org	false	PerformOfServicesByOtherOrgInd
Sharing Of Facilities	false	SharingOfFacilitiesInd
Paid Employees Sharing	false	PaidEmployeesSharingInd
Reimbursement Paid To Other Org	false	ReimbursementPaidToOtherOrgInd
Reimbursement Paid By Other Org	false	ReimbursementPaidByOtherOrgInd
Transfer To Other Org	false	TransferToOtherOrgInd
Transfer From Other Org	false	TransferFromOtherOrgInd

Transactions Related Org TransactionsRelatedOrgGrp (5 entries)

Transaction TypeTransactionTypeTxt	InvolvedInvolvedAmt	Method Of Amount DeterminationMethodOfAmountDeterminationTxt
NGSP Inc
F	$52,900,000	AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NGSP INC
A	$1,182,863	AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NG FOUNDATION FOR SCI EX (ASIA)
L	$946,421	AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NGSP Inc
L	$6,121,761	AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NGSP INC
D	$25,835,000	AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS