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The Earth Species Project

Fiscal year ending 2024. Filed on November 17, 2025.

8605 Santa Monica Blvd 78666
West Hollywood, California 90069

The Earth Species Project (EIN: 82-5167508) has filed an IRS Form 990 since fiscal year 2019. In its fiscal year 2024 IRS Form 990 filing, The Earth Species Project, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, reported compensation for 8 out of 14 total employees. Among the employees shown here, the average compensation is $183,528. The highest compensated employee at The Earth Species Project is Andrea Austin with fiscal year 2024 compensation of $213,444.

Revenue, expenses, and employee compensation

Revenue

$20,793,212

Expenses

$4,837,122

Employee compensation

$2,350,625
Revenue, expenses, and employee compensation over time

Reported Compensated Employees

Andrea Austin
Head of Operations
$213,444
$180,000 No related comp$33,444
Katherine Zacarian
Chief Executive Officer
$191,655
$180,000 No related comp$11,655
Benjamin Hoffman
Senior AI Research
$191,445
$155,000 No related comp$36,445
Sara Keen
Senior Research Sc
$189,004
$155,000 No related comp$34,004
Masato Hagiwara
Senior AI Research
$180,493
$155,000 No related comp$25,493
Madeline Cusimano
Senior AI Research
$179,979
$155,000 No related comp$24,979
Jen-Yu Liu
Senior AI Research
$173,884
$155,000 No related comp$18,884
Aza Raskin
President
$148,320
$144,000 No related comp$4,320

Benchmark Employee Compensation

Non-Employee Board Members

Brewster Kahle
Director
Kay Butterfield
Director
Merlin van Lawick
Director
Michael Selvitelle
Senior Advisor
Sean White
Director
Wendy Hanamura
Director

Mission Statement

The Earth Species Project (ESP)is the new frontier of interspecies understanding. We decode animal communication with advanced AI to illuminate the diverse intelligences on earth.Founded in 2018, Earth Species Project brings together the best of tech, nonprofit, and academia to shift the way humans relate to the rest of nature.We develop the worlds first and most capable large language models like AVES and NatureLM-audio for studying animal communication. Built on AI breakthroughs in human language and reasoning, our multimodal foundation models capture the complexity of the natural world and illuminate the languages hidden across the tree of life. To accelerate progress across the scientific community, we open source as much of our work as possible sharing datasets, benchmarks, and models to advance the study of animal communication. In collaboration with leading biologists around the world, were also using our models to study the vocal repertoire of crows, beluga whales, elephants, a

Revisions to this organization profile

November 17, 2025:
2024 The Earth Species Project 990 filed
August 13, 2024:
2023 The Earth Species Project 990 filed
October 5, 2023:
2022 The Earth Species Project 990 filed

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