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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by RAMAPOUGH CULTURE AND LAND FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$345,895
Total expenses
$180,175
Contributions and grants received
$345,895
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$250,097
Total liabilities, end of year
$78,125
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$171,972
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$0
Management and general expenses
$180,175
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$0

Program services were 0.0% 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.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $345,895

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $0

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $0

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

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

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $0

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $66,275 · program services $0 · management and general $66,275 · fundraising $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $20,200 · program services $0 · management and general $20,200 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,850 · program services $0 · management and general $7,850 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,400 · program services $0 · management and general $3,400 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: fuel for electricty

    total $21,500 · program services $0 · management and general $21,500 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: operational expenses building expenses heat electric internet seeds animal feed volunteer supplies t

    total $43,650 · program services $0 · management and general $43,650 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: tractor farm truck maintenance fuel

    total $17,300 · program services $0 · management and general $17,300 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $6,252 · end of year $78,125

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $178,529

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $6,557

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $171,972

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $78,125

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,252 · end of year $171,972

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation's vision is to weave a land ethic into the fabric of our society; to ensure eight generations vision that will advance the understanding for future generations. Land stewardship land conveyance and restoration of land health; protect and restore lands sacred sites and water bodies providing educational programming for Native Americans and the general public future generations in order to protect land for conservation cultural ceremonial practices and educational purposes. Food Sovereignty; freely develop and implement self-determined definitions of food sovereignty; cultivate access and secure nutritious culturally essential food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods; and design and maintain food systems and enact policies that advance tribal priorities for ensuring that tribal citizens and surrounding community have the sustenance they need to thrive physically mentally socially and culturally not just today

  • Living on these lands for thousands of years Munsee Lunaape and their ancestors built and maintained a massive network of trails and markers to physically and spiritually navigate their relationship to this land. Cairns cradle rocks compass stones balance boulders viewing seats and ceremonial complexes help the stewards of this land nurture balance between the living and their spirit ancestors Mother Earth and the Sky Beings and the people and the land. This already encroached upon cultural resource is under severe further threat from exurban development artifact-hunting and the sheer lack of awareness. This work is a necessary part of the Ramapough peoples' efforts to restore cultural and environmental balance back to the region and to heal themselves from centuries of dispossession and persecution. Picaro Mann to devise a strategy for recognizing Indigenous local knowledge traditions and collaborating with scholars community organizations and the general public. This is an essential step towards launching a broader campaign to raise awareness about the Munsee Lunaape landscape to encourage further research and preservation efforts. This work will help restore Native cultures in New Jersey to their rightful prominence and help non-Natives develop more sustainable and spiritually-viable relationships to the land. Over the last few years Picaro Mann has been codifying knowledge she inherited from her ancestors communications from the stones themselves and archival and academic material she has gathered from scholars and local experts. Over the course of this work the land has revealed to her that Munsee Lunaape CSLs are far more extensive than many realize and that it requires immediate protection. Generations of Ramapough people have painstakingly preserved this irreplaceable knowledge system on their own. The land now requests the help of others before too much more is lost. Picaro Mann to develop best practices and protocols for bringing these cultural landscapes to public attention. We will help her connect the Ramapough people with historians archeologists local experts and a variety of other stakeholders to develop a Native-centered strategy for the stewardship study and interpretation of this precious cultural resource. This will assist the Ramapough and other Indigenous groups assert their rightful places as stewards for the study and interpretation of their cultural patrimony. Picaro Mann has conducted field survey of the "Middle Forty" on the Delaware River around the sacred Minisink Island area. The work consists of GPS documentation with descriptions photos and deed research. Education outreach and partnerships with Historical societies environmental organizations all stakeholders who want preservation of land and culture as is. The proposal to re designation scenic river and waterways nation designation to NPS National Park Service will threaten our as is land and culture.

  • Food land and justice a partnership of Decolonizing wealth Project. The 50,000 is provided for general operating support.

  • Environmental justice land stewardship funding through water and land injustice. 45,000

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Michaeline Picaro

    executive director

    Total calculated
    $116,400
    From this org
    $116,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45 + 20 related

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
2022
Filed
18 May 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202311389349300011

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