Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$85,315

Total expenses

$80,034

Contributions and grants received

$73,012

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$3,704

Investment income

$19

Other revenue

$8,580

Total assets, end of year

$548,830

Total liabilities, end of year

$13,112

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$535,718

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$52,955

Management and general expenses

$26,591

Fundraising expenses

$488

Program service expenses (Part III)

$52,955

Program services were 66.2% 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 · 2024

• EDUCATION: WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE SOUTH WHIDBEY SCHOOL DISTRICT, SEVERAL NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WERE DEVELOPED. IN THE SPRING, VARIOUS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS ATTENDED GRADE APPROPRIATE K TO 6TH GRADE CLASSES IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND AT WHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS' OUTDOOR CLASSROOM. THESE CLASSES CENTERED AROUND "HABITATS AND CREATURES", WHERE STUDENTS BROKEN UP INTO SMALL GROUPS EXPLORED THE FOREST AND STREAM ECOSYSTEMS AND THE PLANTS AND CREATURES WHO LIVE IN THEM. APPROX. 751 STUDENTS FROM 8 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. IN THE FALL, GRADES 1ST THROUGH 5TH AND 8TH STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN CLASSROOM PROGRAMS AND FIELD TRIPS TO THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM THAT EXPLORED OUR FASCINATING "DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE FOREST". THIS PROGRAM INVITES STUDENTS ON A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF OUR FOREST ECOSYSTEM. EACH LESSON OFFERS A HANDS-ON EXPLORATION OF LIFE BENEATH THE FOREST CANOPY, FROM TINY SOIL-DWELLING ORGANISMS TO FASCINATING FUNGI. STUDENTS ROTATED THROUGH VARIOUS HANDS-ON LEARNING ACTIVITIES APPROPRIATE FOR THEIR GRADE LEVEL. APPROX. 465 STUDENTS ACROSS 5 SCHOOLS. DURING JULY AND AUGUST TWO DIFFERENT SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOUTH WHIDBEY PARKS AND RECREATION, WERE DEVELOPED. THE "FEATHERED FRIENDS" FOR AGES 6 THROUGH 8 EXPLORED WAS CONDUCTED AT THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM. THE SALISH SEA JR. SCIENTISTS", FOR AGES 9 THROUGH 12, WAS CONDUCTED AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER AND LANGLEY MARINA. 27 STUDENTS. SALMON IN THE CLASSROOM PROGRAM: INSTRUCTED 3RD AND 5TH GRADE STUDENTS ABOUT THE LIFE CYCLE OF SALMON. SALMON EGGS WERE PROVIDED TO THE SCHOOL AND REARED IN THE SCHOOL AQUARIUMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SALMON LIFE CYCLE LESSONS. WHEN THE FISH HATCHED AND REACHED FRY STAGE, THEY WERE RELEASED IN MARCH BY GROUPS OF STUDENTS WITH THEIR TEACHERS AND FAMILIES INTO MAXWELTON CREEK AT THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM. APPROX. 50 STUDENTS. COMMUNITY EDUCATION WAS PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH VARIOUS FAMILY- ORIENTED EVENTS HELD ON WHIDBEY ISLAND, AND ALSO IN NEWSLETTERS, WEBSITE, AND SOCIAL MEDIA.

  Expenses $49,558 · Revenue $3,704

• CONSERVATION / RESEARCH: CONSERVATION / RESEARCH: PARTICIPATED IN COMMUNITY, TRIBAL, AND GOVERNMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS. CONDUCTED A CRAB LARVA RESEARCH PROJECT AND PUBLIC OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST CRAB RESEARCH GROUP. 275 VOLUNTEER HOURS.

• STEWARDSHIP: STEWARDSHIP: PERFORMED FOREST, WETLAND AND PUBLIC BEACH RESTORATION AT 5 LOCATIONS ON SOUTH WHIDBEY ISLAND. APPROX. 25 PEOPLE FOR 475 VOLUNTEER HOURS.

  Expenses $2,197

• SCHOLARSHIP: OFFERED ONE SCHOLARSHIP TO A SOUTH WHIDBEY HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PLANNING TO STUDY BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE IN COLLEGE AND WORKING IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD. SOPHIA PATRIN RECEIVED A 1,200 SCHOLARSHIP PAID DIRECTLY TO UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

  Expenses $1,200

As filed on the 2024 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.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

2 October 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.0

Source object

202512809349301021

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