Wild Nature Institute

The Wildlife Nature Institute is a conservation group conducting scientific research to protect wildlife and the environment. 1 It signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal. 2 Wild Nature Institute has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy. 3

At-A-Glance

Issue Areas: Environmental Policy
Location: Weaverville, NC View on map
Tax ID: 46-3021940
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2025): Assets: $262,664 Revenue: $201,601 Expenses: $238,375

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    Opposition to Nuclear Energy

    Wild Nature was one of more than 600 co-signing organizations on a January 2019 open letter to Congress titled “Legislation to Address the Urgent Threat of Climate Change.” The signatories declared their support for new laws to bring about “100 percent decarbonization” of the transportation sector but denounced nuclear power as an example of “dirty energy” that should not be included in any legislation promoting the use of so-called “renewable energy.” 3

    Nuclear power plants produce no carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, and as of 2021 accounted for 19 percent of American electricity production—the largest source of zero carbon electricity in the United States. 4 An October 2018 proposal from The Nature Conservancy noted that zero-carbon nuclear plants produced 7.8 percent of total world energy output and recommended reducing carbon emissions by increasing nuclear capacity to 33 percent of total world energy output. 5

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2025 $262,664 $201,601 $238,375
    2024 $299,438 $253,575 $112,453 View
    2023 $158,316 $157,229 $149,324 View
    2022 $150,411 $174,682 $144,993 View
    2021 $120,722 $141,271 $81,101 View
    2020 $60,552 $66,627 $70,307 View

    Prior year filings: 2015, 2014, 2013

    Revenue Detail

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    Monica Bond PhDSecretary-Treasurer$22,000

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $106,814
    • Number of Grants: 9
    • Number of Funders: 6

    Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $25,0002025 Zoological Society of CincinnatiCONSERVATION SUPPORT DONATION
    $25,0002024 Zoological Society of CincinnatiCONSERVATION SUPPORT DONATION
    $18,0002023 Zoological Society of CincinnatiCONSERVATION SUPPORT DONATION
    $10,9002021 SACRAMENTO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYCONSERVATION
    $10,0002022 THE LIVING DESERT ZOO AND GARDENSDONATION TO WILD NATURE INSTITUTE IN SUPPORT OF THEIR WORK TOWARDS CONSERVING AFRICA'S GIANTS IN TANZANIA.
    $6,9002020 SACRAMENTO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYCONSERVATION
    $1,0002020 The Bessemer Giving Fund C/o Bessemer Trust Company TrusteeGENERAL SUPPORT
    $142022 Amazonsmile FoundationGENERAL SUPPORT

    Mentioned in this Article

    Associated Influence Networks

    View Green New Deal

    Green New Deal

    The Green New Deal (GND) refers to a U.S. House of Representatives resolution and various legislative proposals supported by radical environmentalist groups. While details of the…

    View Opposition to Nuclear Energy

    Opposition to Nuclear Energy

    There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy.    …

    References

    1. “About Us.” Wild Nature Institute. https://www.wildnatureinstitute.org/about-us.html.
    2. “Green New Deal Hub.” Influence Watch. https://www.influencewatch.org/hub/green-new-deal/.
    3. “Group letter to Congress urging Green New Deal passage.” Earthworks. January 10, 2019. Accessed July 27, 2023. https://www.earthworks.org/publications/group-letter-to-congress-urging-green-new-deal-passage/
    4. “Nuclear explained.” U.S. Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/us-nuclear-industry.php
    5. “The Science of Sustainability.” The Nature Conservancy. October 13, 2018. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/the-science-of-sustainability/