Society for Biodiversity Preservation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822245785
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 6308546669
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,793
- Expenses
- $113,949
- Assets
- $14,044
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gurram Gopal (President)
People named in this filing
- Gurram Gopal (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As custodians of biodiversity conservation, our mission is to protect our natural heritage from the adverse impacts of pollution, habitat degradation, climate change, and other human activities through Applied Conservation, Education, and Advocacy of Science-Based Policy. Our efforts are focused on: environmental literacy to educate citizens on the importance of local flora and fauna; promoting citizen action and partnering with diverse stakeholders to reclaim and preserve local habitats and native ecosystems. We strongly advocate science-based policies and support scientific research in promoting the strategic and sustainable use of natural resources. We serve as a portal for understanding and engaging with the natural world through conservation training, supporting local habitat restoration projects, and contributing to ecosystem research initiatives. We aim to create the next generation of informed environmental stewards and citizen scientists to protect the species diver
What it reported doing in 2025
Funded gardening efforts by the Schools in Naperville and educational efforts by Rowan College and education through LinkedIn and other social media
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 7.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 91.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.