Craighead Beringia South
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Craighead Beringia South is dedicated to promoting a balanced approach to conservation management and educational programs by pursuing long-term innovative wildlife research.
- Income
- $42,759
- Spending
- $49,473
- Reserves
- 104.3 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 56%
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)
- $36,843 spent. Non-Invasive Monitoring Project: Peter Alexander wrote aninteractive computer application to match species based onphoto-ID. He is continuing to develop a version where a user (Sch O)
- $3,355 spent. JJC Archive: John C Craighead and his brother Frank werelegendary in the field of wildlife biology. Throughouttheir pioneering careers, they collected images and video (Sch O)
- can input any collection of photos to build a capture history or cleanup a capture history that a machine learning algorithm may have put together with inconsistencies. Ecology and Evolution has accepted a manuscript from us. The paper is a general proof of concept of the idea. It covers the effectiveness of our novel camera trap design and the improvement in human ability to individually identify pumas in photos.in addition to their professional publications. The JJC Archival Project is an effort to disseminate their professional work and digitize the images and video collected during their careers.
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 1998.
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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