Predator Defense

What it reported doing in 2024

ENDING PREDATOR KILLING: BANNING WILDLIFE TRAPS & POISONS: In 2024 we followed up on our prior work creating a West Coast free of M-44 cyanide bombs and our historic 2023 victory banning them on the 245 million acres of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. We expanded our push by asking federal officials for an M-44 ban on the U.S. Forest Service's 193 million acres of public lands. In this process we learned that-thanks to all our nonstop pressure over the years-quietly, behind the scenes, no M-44s had been deployed by USDA Wildlife Services on Forest Service lands since 2021. Wildlife Services was also currently prohibited from any M-44 activity other than removing devices, including on private lands, via a 2024 appropriations bill. This was incredible news, but is not a permanent ban, not all devices have been removed, and the ban can be undone by Congress. So we continue working to support federal legislation to ban M-44s on all federal, state and local public lands. This remains a public safety issue, as even those who don't care about wildlife do care about their children and their dogs. STOPPING USDA WILDLIFE SERVICES: Continued our ongoing work to expose USDA Wildlife Services' barbaric wildlife-killing programs methods as counterproductive measures that ignore the best-available science and unnecessarily kill thousands of coyotes and other wild animals without examining implications and damage. Their program costs far exceed the financial losses of livestock interests and are cruel, nonselective and dangerous to the public and pets. This work primarily entails social media outreach, coalition-building with other groups, and fielding queries from the media and public. ALLAYING PUBLIC CONCERNS ABOUT PREDATORS: We continued our longstanding tradition of responding to wild-life calls from the public, primarily about sightings of wolves, bears, cougars, coyotes and bobcats. We are generally able to allay their safety concerns by providing advice. We'll never know the number of animals saved from deaths that would have occurred if wildlife agencies became involved, but believe it to be significant.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -23.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 66.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings