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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$160,549
Total expenses
$156,995
Contributions and grants received
$160,343
Grants paid
$13,392
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$3
Other revenue
$203
Total assets, end of year
$178,679
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$178,679
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$144,184
Management and general expenses
$9,967
Fundraising expenses
$2,844
Program service expenses (Part III)
$144,184

Program services were 91.8% 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

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $106,729

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $53,614

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $1,056

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Consulting services

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

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $3 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $3

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

    $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $1,285

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $1,082

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $203 · related or exempt $203

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $13,392 · program services $13,392

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

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

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

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

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $36,747 · program services $32,203 · management and general $2,395 · fundraising $2,149

  • 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 $2,811 · program services $0 · management and general $2,811 · 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 $1,680 · program services $0 · management and general $1,680 · 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 $85,995 · program services $85,387 · management and general $433 · fundraising $175

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $295 · program services $295 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,077 · program services $35 · management and general $615 · fundraising $427

  • 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 $913 · program services $883 · management and general $0 · fundraising $30

  • 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 $110 · program services $0 · management and general $110 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,035 · program services $172 · management and general $1,863 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Equipment and materials

    total $11,487 · program services $11,436 · management and general $51 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Bank & credit card charges

    total $103 · program services $31 · management and general $9 · fundraising $63

  • 24c · Other expenses: Memberships

    total $350 · program services $350 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $162,912 · end of year $166,573

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $12,103 · end of year $12,106

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

    $9,730

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

    $9,730

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $110 · end of year $0

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $175,125 · end of year $178,679

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Improving Lewis Creek and its watershed. Our area of work includes the middle Lake Champlain Valley and the Lewis Creek, LaPlatte, Thorp/Kimball/Holmes, and McCabe's watersheds. We focus on the health of Lake Champlain and its basin feeder streams, which send the bulk (approx. 80%) of phosphorus pollution to the lake when streams are experiencing their more frequent high flow events.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Improving Lewis Creek and its watershed.

  • RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION * Coordinated boat launch steward programs at Bristol Pond and Monkton Pond. * Thorp / Kimball invasive European Frogbit and other invasive plant control - Year 14 (Charlotte). * LaPlatte Natural Area invasive European Frogbit and other invasive plant control - Year 11 (Shelburne). * Helped receive funding for bridge abutment removal, Hollow Brook (Starksboro). * AOTS: Received funding, and contracted with construction firm, for the restoration of a wetland behind the United Church of Hinesburg in 2023. * AOTS: Completed final documentation of new AOTS sites at Charlotte Library and Last Resort Farm (Monkton). * AOTS: Received funding for designing stormwater improvements in residential area (Hinesburg). * Planted trees and shrubs on 3.4 acres along Lewis Creek (Ferrisburgh). * Received grant and completed engineering design work related to stormwater at Cota Ballfields (Starksboro). * Began participation in a joint grant to create a watershed action plan for the Lake Iroquois-Patrick Brook watershed (Hinesburg).

    Expenses $104,142

  • PLANNING AND DATA COLLECTION * Developed water quality sampling plan in cooperation with VT DEC and ACRWC, and monitored 16 sites nine times thoughout the spring and summer with the help of 26 volunteers (Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, Hinesburg, Shelburne, Starksboro). * Continued work on a grant to prioritize, and create three concept designs for, McCabe's Brook water quality improvement projects (Shelburne, Charlotte). * Created a storymap showing water quality sampling results (available at bit.ly/LCA-WQ-2021).

    Expenses $21,566 · Grants $13,392

  • EDUCATION AND OUTREACH * Presented three webinars on water quality (Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, Hinesburg). * AOTS: Began creation of a manual that will help landowners determine how to improve stormwater management on their property, and will hold workshops to explain why it is important. * Received training to educate students about watersheds, visited schools (Hinesburg). * Participated in water quality planning meetings including State Tactical Basin Plan update meetings, CCRPC Clean Water Advisory Committee meetings, Basin Water Quality Council meetings, and Watersheds United Vermont meetings.

    Expenses $18,476

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Andrea Morgante

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Stevie Spencer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Louis duPont

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Myra Handy

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Runcie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Erb

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Glynda McKinnon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Callie Douglass

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Abel Fillion

    Director

    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
2022
Filed
6 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202303139349302000

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