MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC

Programs

1. Mass audubon maintains 21 field offices and staffed wildlife sanctuaries (including 18 sanctuaries with nature centers, two of which are in urban areas) and an additional 50 unstaffed wildlife sanctuaries which are open for public visitation. Mass audubon sanctuaries serve as the base for nature and environmental education courses and programs, scientific research, ecological management, and other conservation-related activities. As of june 30, 2025, mass audubon protects 43,035 acres of open space in massachusetts, owning 34,130 and protecting the remaining 8,905 with conservation easements. These diverse protected habitats range from the berkshires to cape cod and the islands and help preserve the rich biodiversity of massachusetts. Mass audubon actively pursues both donations and purchases of additional conservation land and is the largest private conservation landowner in the state. Mass audubon also assists other land trusts and the commonwealth of massachusetts in acquiring conservation land and estimate these assists since 2001 have totaled more than 11,000 acres. An estimated 601,000 visitors came to enjoy mass audubon properties in fy 2025.mass audubon is also the largest…

   $36,470,275 spentof which $1,136,007 as grants$9,987,563 earned by the program
   82% of program spending

2. In addition to the services provided by the network of sanctuaries and the education programming referred to above which are available to members and non-members alike, mass audubon members also enjoy a printed newsletter (explore) produced four times per year, a monthly e-newsletter (explorations), discounts on programs and at gift shops, and publications to increase public awareness of wildlife, nature, and environmental issues. In addition, the mass audubon website (www.massaudubon.org) offers a wide variety of information on mass audubon's sanctuaries, conservation efforts, land protection projects, advocacy issues, climate change work, and the natural world. Mass audubon also operates a gift shop in lincoln which sells merchandise related to nature, wildlife observation and environmental education to both members and non-members as well as a number of smaller nature-themed gift shops at many of the sanctuaries.

   $2,209,267 spent$151,051 earned by the program
   5% of program spending

3. Mass audubon utilizes and develops scientific knowledge to support its longstanding tradition as an organization which uses science as the underpinning for its education, land protection, advocacy and habitat stewardship activities. Current research and/or ecological management work focuses on the protection, restoration, and stewardship of selected massachusetts habitats such as grasslands, coastal heathlands, retired cranberry bogs, and salt marshes. In addition, monitoring of key groups of organisms such as birds, amphibians, invertebrates and plants continues across the state in order to provide an important baseline to evaluate changing environmental conditions associated with climate change and land development. Mass audubon has also developed and implements an invasive species management strategy to protect the integrity of its lands as well as to provide guidance for other landowners throughout the state.mass audubon lands play a critical role in the delivery of its mission, and its land protection efforts focus on conserving ecologically significant tracts of land adjacent to existing wildlife sanctuaries, thereby protecting and enhancing their biological integrity and…

   $4,604,789 spent$686,391 earned by the program
   10% of program spending

4. Key mass audubon advocacy accomplishments in fy 2025 include: 1. Massachusetts governor maura healey signed a sweeping climate and energy bill into law for which mass audubon had lobbied. This act promotes a clean energy grid, advances equity, and protects ratepayers and will provide much-needed reform to the state's approach to siting and permitting clean energy infrastructure. This is a big step forward for clean energy in massachusetts.2. Mass audubon launched the nature for massachusetts coalition, fighting for an increase in state investments for nature. The campaign kicked off with a state house launch event in support of the legislation, an act providing nature for all.3. Mass audubon also participated in state energy siting reform processes, with the goal of shifting incentives to put more solar projects on buildings and developed areas, and fewer large-scale projects in forests and on farms. This included mass audubon's appointment to the state's commission on energy infrastructure siting and permitting.4. Mass audubon's rescue raptors campaign to curb harmful rodent poisons continues to grow, with over 90 communities now organizing around the issue across the state. 36…

   $1,200,605 spent
   3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,484,936.