National
Wildlife Federation
11100 Wildlife Center Dr
Reston, VA 20190
2008 Income: $94,573,828
2008 Assets: $69,448,048
http://www.nwf.org
Phone:
(703) 438-6000
Fax: (703) 438-6075
EIN: 53-0204616
Founded: 1936
Exempt since: 1943
National Wildlife
Federation is mapped on
Muckety.
 Description:
an old-line
hunting and fishing organization founded in 1936 that was gradually co-opted
by environmentalist leaders beginning in the 1980s, alienating
former members who departed, and recruiting a new social-change and
ideologically oriented membership. In 2004, the group chose a new
CEO who made global warming its top priority, with extreme prejudice
against fossil fuels, particularly oil and gas.
Today the
organization has a $94 million annual budget, mostly gained from
foundation grants, and its top priority remains global warming. Its
primary activities have involved programs and congressional pressure
to end the use of fossil fuels through various stratagems, including
the creation and fostering of Sportsmen for Responsible Oil and Gas
Development (aka Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development) as a
ruse to shut down oil and gas production throughout the United
States.
This changed
emphasis has convinced a number of state wildlife affiliates that
the organization is no longer a sportsmen’s group, but a
money-driven instrument of various ideological foundations donating
millions toward the elimination of fossil fuels in the belief it
will stop global warming. Many sportsmen wondered
about the $100,000 grant in 2006 from New York's Overbrook
Foundation for "Improving the Environmental
Performance and Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the North American
Direct-Mail Catalog Industry" and what that has
to do with wildlife. Such money-grubbing submission to big
foundation social change agendas by the National Wildlife Federation
shows clearly that the group's mission is no longer making wildlife
available for hunters and anglers.
NWF president Larry J Schweiger is a
board of directors member of Al Gore’s
Alliance for Climate
Protection, flagship of the “no more fossil fuels”
global warming fundamentalists.
NWF kicked out
("disaffiliated) its Pennsylvania state organization for refusing to
accept the dogma of global warming as a totally man-made force. Read
the National Wildlife Federation's Letter
of Disaffiliation here. Constituent groups with the Pennsylvania
state organization became so outraged by the national organization's
ideological shift that the largest state group withdrew prior to the
disaffiliation. Read the Luzerne County Federation of Sportsmen
Letter of Withdrawal here.
National Wildlife Federation Officers, Directors, Trustees, and Key Employees
| Name |
Title |
Compensation |
|
Larry J Schweiger |
President |
$309,579 |
|
Jaime Matyas |
COO |
$225,379 |
|
Cynthia Lewin |
Secretary |
$180,454 |
|
Dulce M Gomez-Zormelo |
Treasurer |
$146,677 |
|
Natasha B Perkins |
Assistant Treasurer |
$96,900 |
|
Eryn Starun |
Assistant Secretary |
$85,447 |
|
David L Hargett |
Director |
$0 |
|
Beatrice Busch Von Gontard |
Director |
$0 |
|
Gregor S Bailar |
Director |
$0 |
|
David Carruth |
Director |
$0 |
|
Greg Smith |
Director |
$0 |
|
Lyvier Conss |
Director |
$0 |
|
Mark Winland |
Director |
$0 |
|
Paul Rose |
Director |
$0 |
|
Jerry L Little |
Director |
$0 |
|
Christine Thompson |
Director |
$0 |
|
Jess Sixkiller |
Director |
$0 |
|
Jerome C Ringo |
Immediate Past Chair |
$0 |
|
Rebecca L Scheibelhut |
Past Chair |
$0 |
|
Liz Hamilton |
Director |
$0 |
|
Gene T Oglesby |
Director |
$0 |
|
Earl B Matthew |
Director |
$0 |
|
Mason Bryant Howard |
Director |
$0 |
|
Paul Beaudette |
Director |
$0 |
|
Shelley Cohen |
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Director |
$0 |
|
Michael P Dombeck |
Director |
$0 |
|
Kathleen Hadley |
Director Elected Western Vice Chair |
$0 |
|
Kent Salazar |
Director |
$0 |
|
Spencer Tomb |
Central Vice Chair |
$0 |
|
John Grant |
Director |
$0 |
|
Mark Heckert |
Director |
$0 |
|
Stephen K Allinger |
Eastern Vice Chair |
$0 |
|
Gerald Meral |
Director |
$0 |
|
Lise Van Susteren |
Director |
$0 |
|
Craig D Thompson |
Western Vice Chair |
$0 |
|
Richard Baldes |
Director |
$0 |
|
Lois Quam |
Director |
$0 |
|
Leslie Shad |
Director |
$0 |
|
Thomas Gonzales |
Chair |
$0 |
|
Deborah A Spalding |
Director |
$0 |
|
Virginia Brock |
Director |
$0 |
|
Clark Bullard |
Director |
$0 |
National Wildlife Federation financial condition 2008
|
2008 Revenue |
|
Contributions |
$67,841,100 |
|
Government Grants |
$195,775 |
| Program Services |
$10,758,889 |
| Investments |
$124,165 |
| Special Events |
($177,221) |
| Sales |
$287,317 |
| Other |
$15,543,803 |
| Total Revenue: |
$94,573,828 |
|
2008 Expenses |
|
Program Services |
$71,467,578 |
| Administration |
$6,075,181 |
| Other |
$12,582,554 |
| Total Expenses: |
$90,125,313 |
| |
|
Net Gain/Loss: |
$4,448,515 |
50
most recent foundation grants to National Wildlife Federation
|
Donor Foundation |
|
Amount |
|
Year |
|
Grant Description |
|
THE BRAINERD FOUNDATION
Seattle
Washington |
|
$80,000 |
|
2008 |
|
A two-year
grant to build diverse conservation partnerships in southwest
Montana |
|
ARTHUR B SCHULTZ FOUNDATION
Ketchum
Idaho |
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|
$30,000 |
|
2007 |
|
Wildland conservation |
|
444S FOUNDATION
Bellevue
Washington |
|
$35,000 |
|
2007 |
|
Environmental Preservation |
|
SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION
Dallas
Texas |
|
$9,200 |
|
2007 |
|
Support for recovery and protection of
eastern Gray Wolf |
|
HARDER FOUNDATION
Tacoma
Washington |
|
$15,000 |
|
2007 |
|
Marine conservation |
|
BROWN FOUNDATION INC
Houston
Texas |
|
$400,000 |
|
2007 |
|
Texas Living Waters Project |
|
POWELL FOUNDATION
Houston
Texas |
|
$20,000 |
|
2007 |
|
To expand NWF's creating schoolyard
habitats program in HISD schools in 2007-2008 |
|
CURTIS AND EDITH MUNSON FOUNDATION
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
|
$12,500 |
|
2007 |
|
Support of Action Assistance Fund of the
Corps Reform Network, with emphasis on groups in the Gulf of
Mexico and Mississippi watershed |
|
AMGEN FOUNDATION INC
Thousand Oaks
California |
|
$20,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Science education grant |
|
AMERICANA FOUNDATION
Novi
Michigan |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Support for legal and public relations
work to protect UP from sulfide mining |
|
JOHN A. DELEGAN MEMORIAL TRUST
Joliet
Illinois |
|
$6,153 |
|
2006 |
|
General fund |
|
TURNER FOUNDATION INC
Atlanta
Georgia |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
|
|
THE PAMELA T. MCCLELLAND FAMILY
FOUNDATION
Troy
Michigan |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
To fund public charity |
|
ORCHARD FOUNDATION
South Portland
Maine |
|
$15,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Clean the Rain Campaign Northeast
Component |
|
WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION
Menlo Park
California |
|
$600,000 |
|
2006 |
|
For general support of the public lands
program
(SFRED
grant) |
|
WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION
Menlo Park
California |
|
$250,000 |
|
2006 |
|
For the constituency for conservation
initiative (SFRED
grant) |
|
WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION
Menlo Park
California |
|
$50,000 |
|
2006 |
|
For the Population and environment
program |
|
CURTIS AND EDITH MUNSON FOUNDATION
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
|
$20,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Funding in support of the Crop reform
network |
|
THE RUSSELL FAMILY FOUNDATION
Gig Harbor
Washington |
|
$35,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Nearshore Community Wildlife Habitat
Program |
|
WYSS FOUNDATION
West Chester
Pennsylvania |
|
$80,000 |
|
2006 |
|
|
|
COLCOM FOUNDATION
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania |
|
$50,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Pennsylvania clean the rain campaign |
|
AMERICAN HONDA FOUNDATION
Torrance
California |
|
$51,604 |
|
2006 |
|
Strengthen Science Education Through
Connecting with Nature will support Native American students
in Arizona and New Mexico with hands-on environmental science
curriculum specific to their indigenous environment |
|
THE ENERGY FOUNDATION
San Francisco
California |
|
$15,000 |
|
2006 |
|
To support an educational campaign
promoting a renewable power standard for Michigan |
|
BROWN FOUNDATION INC
Houston
Texas |
|
$400,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Texas Living Waters project (multi-2 yrs) |
|
HARDER FOUNDATION
Tacoma
Washington |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
General support |
|
LEWIS FOUNDATION
Cleveland
Ohio |
|
$492,887 |
|
2006 |
|
General Operations |
|
HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC
Houston
Texas |
|
$250,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Toward Phase II of the Texas Living
Waters Project, a collaborative, multiyear program to promote
economically and environmentally sound water resource
management |
|
EUGENE V AND CLARE THAW CHARITABLE TRUST
Santa Fe
New Mexico |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Towards funding for the position oja
land, wildlife and Clean Energy Act coalition coordinator |
|
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
Southeastern
Pennsylvania |
|
$23,500 |
|
2006 |
|
Environment & wildlife |
|
WALLACE GLOBAL FUND
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
|
$10,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Bringing the voices of developing
countries to the biofuels sustainability debate travel support |
|
WALLACE GLOBAL FUND
Washington
Dist Of Columbia |
|
$61,600 |
|
2006 |
|
Confronting global warming inspiring
Americans to action |
|
SAPELO FOUNDATION INC
Brunswick
Georgia |
|
$18,000 |
|
2006 |
|
To build a constituency of rural land
owners in the great okefenokee ecosystem for support of
environmental and wildlife conservation values including the
priorities of the Georgia water coalition |
|
KENDEDA FUND
Wilmington
Delaware |
|
$50,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Atlanta earth tomorrow program |
|
DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION
Los Altos
California |
|
$100,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Population global institutions/global
solutions |
|
RICHARD AND RHODA GOLDMAN FUND
San Francisco
California |
|
$75,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Population and environment program to
increase U S funding for international family planning and to
place population growth on the environmental agendas of U S
and international governmental agencies |
|
MARISLA FOUNDATION
Laguna Beach
California |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Unified endangered species campaign |
|
LIZ CLAIBORNE & ART ORTENBERG FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Grazing allotment retirement program |
|
444S FOUNDATION
Bellevue
Washington |
|
$42,500 |
|
2006 |
|
Environmental preservation |
|
444S FOUNDATION
Bellevue
Washington |
|
$30,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Environmental preservation |
|
THE BRAINERD FOUNDATION
Seattle
Washington |
|
$25,000 |
|
2006 |
|
To build
support for maintaining Montana's wildlife and conservation
laws. |
|
STARBUCKS FOUNDATION
Seattle
Washington |
|
$10,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Giving Voice Program |
|
SKAGGS FOUNDATION
Juneau
Alaska |
|
$4,000 |
|
2006 |
|
AYEA conference |
|
ISABEL SHANNON TRUST UW CO-TRUSTEE 155
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Winston Salem
North Carolina |
|
$21,588 |
|
2006 |
|
General support |
|
JOYCE FOUNDATION
Chicago
Illinois |
|
$50,000 |
|
2006 |
|
To convene scientists and natural
resource managers, in collaboration with the Great Lakes
Fisheries Trust, to develop a scientific consensus on the way
to manage the Great Lakes. |
|
JOYCE FOUNDATION
Chicago
Illinois |
|
$110,000 |
|
2006 |
|
For Its Great Lakes Natural Resources
Center to provide strategic leadership and communications
support to the Healing Our Waters campaign for Great Lakes
restoration |
|
JOYCE FOUNDATION
Chicago
Illinois |
|
$56,000 |
|
2006 |
|
To build support in Indiana and Michigan
for coal gasification as an alternative to conventional
coal-burning power plants. Indiana Wildlife Federation and
Michigan United Conservation Clubs would be partners in this
effort. (21 months) |
|
RICHARD C DEVEREAUX FOUNDATION
Bloomfield Hills
Michigan |
|
$50,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Operating Support |
|
BIOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC
Arnold
Maryland |
|
$10,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Habitat/ Land Conservation |
|
THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE
ENVIRONMENT
Annapolis
Maryland |
|
$60,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Global warning |
|
BARBARA E PARISH FOUNDATION
Kalamazoo
Michigan |
|
$5,000 |
|
2006 |
|
General support |
|
OVERBROOK FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
|
$65,000 |
|
2006 |
|
'Building Markets for 'Environmental
Papers Among Key Consumer Segments' |
|
OVERBROOK FOUNDATION
New York
New York |
|
$100,000 |
|
2006 |
|
Improving the Environmental Performance
and Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the North American
Direct-Mail Catalog Industry |
|
SURDNA FOUNDATION INC
New York
New York |
|
$150,000 |
|
2006 |
|
To defend the fundamental principles of
the endangered species act and develop and promote a proactive
policy agenda to strengthen America's most important wildlife
conservation law |
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