International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Our organization develops ratifies and promotes data standards and guidelines for the recording and exchange biodiversity information. We also provide a forum for discussing all aspects of biodiversity information management through conferences online discussions and publications.
- Income
- $19,894
- Spending
- $29,380
- Reserves
- Over 10 years of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
- Highest pay
- $10,000, journal editor
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $866 spent. We convened our annual conference jointly with GEOBON. org GBIF. org and OBIS. org as LivingData2025. com in Bogota Colombia. Highlights included: - 931 registered participants 711 in person 221 virtual; - 554 simple abstracts published in the conference program. The abstracts posters and links to videos are now openly accessible via the conference program. Also see the LivingData2025 YouTube channel -- https : www.youtube. com @LivingData2025. The Humboldt Institute in Bogota was the conference host and served as the financial manager. The conference broke even and no proceeds were distributed to partner organizations. We paid the airfare and lodging for the Chair of our Board to attend the conference.
- $10,077 spent. TDWG made two awards grants to suppor the work of our task groups. One was to our environmental DNA task group which attached a working meeting to the conference of the Genomic Standards Consortium gensc. org which met in Cambridge UK. The TDWG grant helped three participants travel to the meeting. The second grant was to reimburse the travel expenses of the leader of our Technical Architecture Group who traveled to Scotland and Switzerland to work with collaborators to advance a technical specification for digital specimens and further develop a data standard for geological specimens in natural history museums.
- $15,372 spent. More than 100 extended abstracts were published in our journal Biodiversity Information Science and Standards biss.pensoft. net. We paid our editor 10,000 and 5,372 to our journal publisher Pensoft. net.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 2018.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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