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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by NATIONAL WILDERNESS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE.

Totals

Total revenue
$393,867
Total expenses
$413,474
Contributions and grants received
$393,358
Grants paid
$286,294
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$89
Other revenue
$420
Total assets, end of year
$141,019
Total liabilities, end of year
$55,611
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$85,408
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$352,954
Management and general expenses
$45,334
Fundraising expenses
$15,186
Program service expenses (Part III)
$352,954

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $8,273

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $383,264

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,821

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $89 · related or exempt $89

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS INCOME

    total $420 · related or exempt $420

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $420

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $286,294 · program services $286,294

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $83,954 · program services $41,053 · management and general $29,329 · fundraising $13,572

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $6,426 · program services $3,388 · management and general $1,918 · fundraising $1,120

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $1,750 · management and general $1,750

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $617 · management and general $574 · fundraising $43

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $16,427 · program services $13,905 · management and general $2,367 · fundraising $155

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $7,915 · program services $7,162 · management and general $737 · fundraising $16

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $785 · program services $785

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $866 · management and general $866

  • 24a · Other expenses: REIMBURSED EXPENSES

    total $3,110 · management and general $3,110

  • 24b · Other expenses: PAYROLL SERVICES

    total $2,777 · management and general $2,777

  • 24c · Other expenses: SUPPLIES

    total $868 · program services $41 · management and general $625 · fundraising $202

  • 24d · Other expenses: MEMBERSHIPS

    total $525 · program services $300 · management and general $225

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,160 · program services $26 · management and general $1,056 · fundraising $78

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $98,506 · end of year $123,209

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $156,499 · end of year $17,810

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $139,229 · end of year $42,672

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $10,761 · end of year $12,939

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $99,203 · end of year $77,777

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,812 · end of year $7,631

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance supports stewardship organizations working within the National Wilderness Preservation System. We provide website resources, trainings, webinars, newsletters, produce the annual National Wilderness Workshop, and provide funding through challenge costs shares with the US Forest Service.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To grow and support a national network of wilderness and public land stewardship organizations to provide ongoing stewardship for America's wilderness areas.

  • NWSA supports wilderness stewardship groups across the country with funding opportunities, mentoring, and assistance developing partnerships and working with land management agencies. NWSA's US Forest Service challenge cost share program helps organizations build capacity for public land stewardship.

    Expenses $312,507 · Grants $286,294

  • NWSA offers many on-line and digital resources, including tookits for stewardship organization start-up, sharing of best practices, grant writing, and actions affecting wilderness stewardship. NWSA curates a monthly wilderness newsletter and hosts webinars to connect and educate the wilderness stewardship community. We also offer small grants, sourced from endowment funds, to assist new wilderness stewardship groups with start-up costs.

    Expenses $40,447

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Joelle Marier

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $77,868
    From this org
    $74,160
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,708
    Hours/week
    40
  • Michelle Reilly

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Splain

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bob Ratcliffe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Quinn Brett

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Hodge

    vice chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeff Randa

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ann Baker-Easley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kaitlin Devarona

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Simon Heinberg

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
11 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202611319349302771

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