Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$10,128

Total expenses

$31,410

Contributions and grants received

$1,200

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$8,928

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$7,868

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$7,868

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$26,920

Management and general expenses

$4,490

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$26,920

Program services were 85.7% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• Conservation easement monitoring, managing, and reporting: Investment earnings generated by an endowment from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (the conservation easement holder) to conduct this contracted work. Our financial committee, consisting of two LSPWA directors, voluntarily continued to monitor and report on the status of the endowment account during 2022. The 3-Links field monitoring committee, consisting of four volunteer LSPWA directors, continued to review, edit, and approve all quarterly and annual reports prepared by our contracted field manager until that contract was terminated at the end of the fiscal year. Additionally, the field committee developed an extensive supplemental violation report in 2022 that was submitted to the easement holder. In total, our volunteer committee members invested approximately 800 volunteer hours to the past years activities in this program area.

  Expenses $14,470

• Legal/administrative process efforts: associated with advocacy for following conservation laws. LSPWA invested approximately 1400 hours of volunteer time responding to permit applications at the federal and state levels by a private corporation that desires to establish a new infrastructure corridor through 33 miles of previously undisturbed landscape in the most ecologically sensitive portion of the lower San Pedro Valley. We also wrapped up our involvement in another case, with the federal government admitting that they improperly issued a Clean Water Act permit to a private corporation desiring to build a 70,000-resident development on the River. The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to reimburse legal expenses to LSPWA, five co-plaintiffs, and attorneys at Earthjustice. Three members of LSPWA (two directors and one member at large) served on the litigation review committee, and other LSPWA members contributed volunteer hours.

  Expenses $10,000

• Collaborative Conservation: LSPWA spent about 350 hours of LSPWA volunteer time to participate in quarterly meetings, working group meetings, field events, fence removal work, wildlife monitoring, invasive species control, and document preparation. This program area benefits our mission by developing collaborative relationships with other parties interested in conserving the natural resources of the lower San Pedro watershed, as we accomplish conservation goals related to public education, sustainable rural economic development, appropriate recreation, wildlife corridor connectivity, the coordination of various County resource plans, soil and water conservation, and the abatement of invasive vegetation species.

  Expenses $2,450

• Commenting on government proposals affecting the LSPW: LSPWA volunteers invested approximately 160 volunteer hours providing solicited written public comments to the Bureau of Land Management, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Air Force regarding four different action proposals. This program area supports our mission by contributing our expertise and conservation perspective to proposals and environmental reviews overseen by governmental agencies.

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

1 distribution to a recipient named as a person, $610,695. Counted where the filer named the recipient as a person, as filed. Who received them, and what, are not published.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

10 April 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202301009349300240

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