| Form 990, Part I, Line 1 and Part III, Line 1: |
WWF HAS WORKED SINCE 1961 TO PROTECT THE FUTURE OF NATURE. WWF'S MISSION IS TO CONSERVE NATURE AND REDUCE THE MOST PRESSING THREATS TO THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE ON EARTH. THE global network of WWF organizations ('WWF'), OF WHICH World Wildlife Fund, Inc.('WWF-US') IS PART, WORKs in OVER 100 COUNTRIES, WITH THE SUPPORT OF MILLIONS OF MEMBERS WORLDWIDE. WWF IS DEDICATED TO DELIVERING SCIENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS TO PRESERVE THE DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE OF LIFE ON EARTH, HALT THE DEGRADATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, AND COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE. WWF FOCUSES ITS WORK IN SIX KEY AREAS: *CONSERVE THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT FORESTS TO SUSTAIN NATURE'S DIVERSITY, BENEFIT OUR CLIMATE, AND SUPPORT HUMAN WELL-BEING *SUSTAIN MARINE LIFE AND FUNCTIONING OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS THAT SUPPORT RICH BIODIVERSITY, FOOD SECURITY, AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS *IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN THE HEALTH OF THE WORLD'S MAJOR FRESHWATER BASINS *ENSURE THE WORLD'S MOST ICONIC SPECIES, INCLUDING POLAR BEARS, BISON, TIGERS, RHINOS, AND ELEPHANTS, ARE SECURED AND RECOVERING IN THE WILD *DRIVE SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS TO CONSERVE NATURE AND FEED HUMANITY *CREATE A CLIMATE-RESILIENT AND ZERO-CARBON WORLD POWERED BY RENEWABLE ENERGY WWF WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITIES, INDIVIDUALS, GOVERNMENTS, BUSINESSES, AND FOUNDATIONS TO CONSERVE MANY OF THE WORLD'S MOST ECOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS. TOGETHER, WE ARE: *PROTECTING AND RESTORING SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS WITH INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, AND SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE METHODS *STRENGTHENING LOCAL COMMUNITIES' ABILITY TO CONSERVE THE NATURAL RESOURCES upon which THEY DEPEND *TRANSFORMING SPECIFIC COMMODITY MARKETS TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION ON NATURAL SYSTEMS *MOBILIZING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE TO SUPPORT CONSERVATION |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a-d, Program Services: |
LINE 4A, INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY PROGRAMS: FROM PERU'S RAINFORESTS AND THE MOUNTAINS OF BHUTAN TO NAMIBIA'S COMMUNAL CONSERVANCIES, WWF BRINGS ITS SCIENCE-BASED AND RESULTS ORIENTED APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES all over the world. WWF SUPPORTS THE CREATION OF RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND LIVELIHOODS FOR COMMUNITIES IN SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST REMOTE LOCATIONS. WWF-US MANAGES certain COUNTRY-OFFICE OPERATIONS in LATIN AMERICA, AS WELL AS IN BHUTAN, NAMIBIA, AND NEPAL - DIRECTLY SUPPORTING CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN SOME OF THE MOST ECOLOGICALLY DIVERSE PLACES ON EARTH. LINE 4B, GLOBAL CONSERVATION: WHETHER IN ALASKA'S BRISTOL BAY; MONTANA'S GREAT PLAINS; THE RAINFORESTS OF BRAZIL, PERU, AND BOLIVIA; OR THE MOUNTAINS OF NEPAL AND BHUTAN, WWF-US PARTNERS WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND OTHER GROUPS TO FIND ACTIONS TO PROTECT FRESHWATER RESOURCES FROM CONTAMINATION AND DEPLETION, REDUCE OVERFISHING TO ENSURE RELIABLE FOOD SOURCES, REDUCE CONFLICTS BETWEEN LOCAL PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE, EMPLOY ENERGY SOLUTIONS THAT GENERATE FEWER GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS THAN THE CURRENT ENERGY PRODUCTION SYSTEM, AND ENACT FOREST MANAGEMENT APPROACHES THAT REGENERATE OR RESTORE CRITICAL HABITATS FOR WILDLIFE AND A RANGE OF FOREST-BASED PRODUCTS FOR PEOPLE. LINE 4C, PUBLIC EDUCATION: WWF IS WORKING TO MOBILIZE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE TO SUPPORT CONSERVATION. WWF-US SHARES INFORMATION WITH THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ON NATURE'S VALUE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSERVATION THROUGH A VARIETY OF CHANNELS, FROM OUR WILDCLASSROOMS EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM, OUR SIGNATURE PUBLICATION WORLD WILDLIFE MAGAZINE, OUR PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS, OUR WEBSITE AND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EVENTS SUCH AS EARTH HOUR. LINE 4D, OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES: PUBLIC AFFAIRS: AT WWF, WE BELIEVE WE CAN FOSTER A SAFER, HEALTHIER AND MORE RESILIENT FUTURE FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE. WE HELP INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS AND SOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST COMPANIES RETHINK THE WAY THEY PRODUCE AND CONSUME ENERGY, FOOD, AND WATER. WWF PROVIDES DECISIONMAKERS WITH THE RESULTS OF FIELD STUDIES DESCRIBING THE BIOLOGICAL RICHNESS OF SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST PRODUCTIVE REGIONS, RESEARCH INTO THE LOSS OR DEGRADATION OF KEY ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE ARCTIC, TROPICAL RAINFORESTS, FISHERIES, CORAL REEFS, RIVER SYSTEMS AND WETLANDS AND SOLUTIONS BASED ON TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS, POLICY INCENTIVES, AND ACTIONS THAT INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS CAN TAKE TO PROTECT OUR PLANET. (EXPENSES $33,938,298 INCLUDING GRANTS OF $7,675,850)(REVENUE $0). MARKET TRANSFORMATION WWF PARTNERS WITH CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, LOCAL COMMUNITIES, NGOS, UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF THE PRODUCTION AND TRADE OF COMMODITIES THAT MOST AFFECT OUR CONSERVATION PRIORITIES. OUR GOAL IS TO MEASURABLY REDUCE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS OF INDIVIDUAL ACTORS AS WELL AS ENTIRE INDUSTRIES. (EXPENSES $28,705,684 INCLUDING GRANTS OF $9,518,961)(REVENUE $0). |
| FORM 990, FY21 Results, Part III: |
In FY 2021, WWF made valuable strides in addressing some of the most significant conservation challenges facing the planet. Among many achievements, we note these: Alerting the world to zoonotic threats. The illegal and unsustainable consumption and trade of wildlife, as well as global deforestation, have long stood as two root causes of zoonotic disease outbreaks. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, WWF responded quickly to help educate consumers and governments around the world about the intersection of conservation and zoonotic threats, mobilize partners and the public, call for immediate actions like closing high-disease-risk wildlife markets in Asia, and integrated zoonotic disease prevention into our global efforts to stop deforestation and wildlife crime. We conducted an extensive, five-country survey with the market research firm GlobeScan and found this advocacy was indeed having an impact. The study showed that changes in government policy were a strong predictor of consumer behavior change, reinforcing how vitally important it is to continue our efforts to encourage governments to eliminate deforestation from supply chains and more effectively regulate wildlife trade. In the US, that has meant working with members of Congress to support the introduction of the Global Pandemic Prevention and Biosecurity Act, which would help to protect nature, prevent high-risk wildlife trade, and reduce demand for risky animal products - all while ensuring the rights and needs of local communities and Indigenous Peoples are protected and supported. Increasing tiger populations and protections WWF celebrated key victories for tiger conservation in FY2021. First, we saw a tripling of tiger numbers-from 10 to 30-in Russia's Land of the Leopard National Park, thanks to increased efforts to address poaching and other wildlife crime, protect natural habitat, and prevent illegal logging. Second, to ensure the roughly 5,000 captive tigers in the US aren't also contributing to the illegal wildlife trade, WWF supported the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which was passed by the House at the end of 2020 and has been recently introduced into the Senate. Returning bison to Native lands At the beginning of FY2021, the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation, with support from WWF and Rosebud Tribal Land Enterprise, successfully transferred 100 plains bison from National Park Service land to the Wolakota Buffalo Range, also known as the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota. The animals will make up the first of as many as 1,500 bison to be welcomed home to Rosebud's 27,680-acre bison area; at capacity, they will become North America's largest Native American owned and managed bison herd. The transfer marks a reunion between the bison and the Native communities who lived together in a symbiotic relationship for millennia. And it is a step toward restoring the rich biodiversity of the Northern Great Plains. Developing a plan to cut US food waste in half WWF brought together a coalition of food waste experts, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and local leaders across the US to address the problem of food loss and waste, which accounts for 40% of all food produced in the country and contributes to more carbon pollution than the entire US airline industry. Our joint action plan contributed to the introduction of the Zero Food Waste Act in the U.S. House and Senate, a bill that would provide state governments, Native Nations, and local leaders with much-needed resources for food waste prevention, measurement, and recycling-and put the nation on a path to cutting food loss and waste in half by 2030. Engaging key audiences to protect forests Forests are under threat. In 2020, the tropics lost more than 30 million acres of tree cover, and an emergency of this magnitude needs an all-hands-on-deck approach. So this year, WWF launched Forests Forward, a new program that engages and advises major companies on how to use nature-based solutions and responsible sourcing to meet sustainability goals while protecting forests and the rights of people in forest communities. To date, five leading companies have signed on as Forests Forward participants in the United States. WWF also worked to exponentially expand our successful Project Finance for Permanence model through collaboration with some of the biggest contributors to conservation and philanthropy. This nascent effort is poised to bring new funding to protect forests and other conservation areas at a truly global scale. Designing a plan for water security and renewable energy in Nepal Nepal has committed to dramatically expanding its clean energy generation, with the planned increase driven almost entirely by future hydropower projects. A series of technical studies, funded by USAID and conducted by WWF and partners over a 5-year period, provided Nepal with an important new blueprint for securing its healthy rivers, mitigating climate change, and building a functional renewable energy future-all while preserving Nepal's exceptional natural heritage and setting an example for other nations to follow. Keeping a dangerous mine at bay Oceans regulate the climate, produce half the oxygen we breathe, and nourish the world with their fish stocks. Yet the health and population of many of those fish stocks and other marine species are declining due to illegal fishing, pollution, and other harmful human activity. In the case of Bristol Bay's salmon, that activity is the construction of a mine. In the face of such threats, this year's victory in Alaska's Bristol Bay was especially heartening. For decades, WWF worked alongside a host of local and national partners to protect the bay's communities and prolific salmon fisheries from the toxic threat of an open pit mine known as the Pebble Mine being built at the headwaters far upstream. This year, that effort-fueled in part by direct outreach from more than 635,000 WWF supporters-paid off when the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a crucial permit to build Pebble Mine. Accelerating climate solutions The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. If humans continue to degrade nature, the impacts we're already experiencing-floods, drought, wildfires, and resource shortages-will continue to increase. That's why WWF is working to jumpstart the use of nature itself to reduce carbon emissions and limit global temperature rise. Nature-based approaches aim to both protect nature and harness its power to mitigate climate change for a more resilient future. In 2021, the Bezos Earth Fund invested $100 million to supercharge WWF's efforts to implement and measure the impact of interventions across three areas: restoring mangroves, our carbon-storing, coastline protectors; developing seaweed as an alternative for animal feed, proteins, and packaging materials; and protecting habitat in partnership with both Indigenous and local communities and governments to secure the lasting protection of nature. Investing in these three critical areas allows us to further protect and restore ecosystems that store carbon, while also building local community resilience to the reality of climate-accelerated weather events. The design and expansion of nature-based solutions is an innovation whose time has come. WWF has also continued working with the private sector to scale up climate solutions and hold companies accountable for meeting climate goals. WWF worked with a coalition of NGOs to launch the AAA Framework for Climate Policy Leadership. The initiative sets a new standard for corporate climate leadership and urges all companies to take a set of concrete steps in support of a net-zero future. WWF also mobilized corporate climate champions to lend momentum to national policy efforts, including a virtual CEOs Dialogue at the President's Leaders Summit on Climate moderated by WWF CEO Carter Roberts and featuring the CEOs of five major US companies discussing the need for ambitious science-based targets and investments in nature-based solutions. |
| Form 990, Part V, Line 3b, Form 990-T Filing: |
Due to differing fiscal years of investment holdings in pass-through entities that include UBIT reported on WWF's Form 990-T, there are delays in receiving the necessary forms K-1 for the tax period. It will be filed within the six-month extension allowed, no later than May 15, 2022. Form 990, Part V, Line 4b, List of Foreign Countries: BELIZE, BHUTAN, BOLIVIA, CHILE, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA, GUYANA, HONDURAS, MEXICO, NAMIBIA, NEPAL, PARAGUAY, PERU, SURINAME. |
| FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 4: |
ON May 18, 2021, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, INC. amended its bylaws to clarify that board officers can include a Chairperson or two-co-chairpersons. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B: WWF'S FINANCE DEPARTMENT GATHERS INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION AND PREPARES THE DRAFT 990 WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF WWF's EXTERNAL AUDITORS. THE DRAFT IS REVIEWED BY THE CEO AND CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER. THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER REVIEWS THE 990 WITH THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD'S AUDIT COMMITTEE, AFTER WHICH, AND PRIOR TO FILING,THE 990 IS MADE AVAILABLE TO OUR FULL BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR REVIEW. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c: |
EACH DIRECTOR AND STAFF MEMBER IS PROVIDED WITH A COPY OF WWF'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AT THE START OF THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH WWF AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, AND each SIGNS AN ANNUAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE POLICY, WITH DISCLOSURE OF ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. WWF'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE WWF BOARD HANDBOOK AND IN BOARD AND STAFF ORIENTATION MATERIALS; is AVAILABLE TO ALL STAFF ON WWF'S INTRANET SITE; AND is FEATURED AT PERIODIC STAFF TRAININGS. IN ADDITION TO disclosing any potential conflicts annually ALL DIRECTORS AND STAFF are required to DISCLOSE POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST As soon as they are identified AND BEFORE THE ORGANIZATION undertakes any relationship with respect to WHICH THERE IS A POTENTIAL CONFLICT. CONFLICTS INVOLVING DIRECTORS ARE RAISED WITH THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, AND THEBOARD (OR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ACTING IN ITS STEAD) REVIEWS THE FACTS OFEACH SITUATION, MAKing AN INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION of how to best serve WWW's INTERESTS, I.E., IF A CONFLICT is identified, the board will determine WHETHER IT CAN BE FULLY AND SATISFACTORILY ADDRESSED, OR THE proposed relationship MUST BE ABANDONED. THE BOARD MEMBER WITH THE potential CONFLICT IS NOT permitted to be PRESENT DURING DISCUSSION AND TAKES NO PART IN DECISIONS RELATING TO THE MATTER. CONFLICTS INVOLVING STAFF MEMBERS ARE RAISED for review by WWF'S PRESIDENT, WHO evaluates THE FACTS OF EACH SITUATION AND DETERMINES, IF A CONFLICT EXISTS, WHETHER and how IT CAN BE FULLY AND SATISFACTORILY ADDRESSED. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15: |
PRIOR TO ANY INCREASES IN SALARY OR PAYMENTS OF ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION (SUCH AS BONUSES) TO A "DISQUALIFIED PERSON", THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WWF BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AS ADVISED BY ITS COMPENSATION SUBCOMMITTEE, REVIEWS THE PERFORMANCE OF THAT INDIVIDUAL AND THE RELEVANT MARKET DATA FOR COMPENSATION OF THE POSITION. THE disqualified person at issue IS NOT not permitted to be PRESENT AND TAKES NO PART IN THE DISCUSSION. WWF CLOSELY OBSERVES THE IRS' "INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS" PROCESS IN CONDUCTING THE REVIEW AND OBTAINS AN ASSESSMENT AS TO REASONABLENESS FROM AN EXTERNAL COMPENSATION PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRM. ALL BOARD MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REVIEW AND ARE APPRISED OF OUTCOMES. |
| FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 17 - STATES: |
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| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19: |
THE ORGANIZATION MAKES ITS certificate of incorporation, CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AVAILABLE ON ITS OWN WEBSITE AND UPON REQUEST. |
| Form 990,Part XI, Line 9-Other Changes in net assets or fund bal: |
Gain/Loss exchange rate differences : 241,234 Cancelled grants: 406,495 TOTAL OTHER CHANGES IN NET ASSETS : 647,729 |
| Form 990, Part XII, Line 2c - Oversight of Audit: |
THERE HAVE BEEN NO CHANGES DURING THE YEAR IN THE PROCESS. |
Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.