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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by EWG ACTION FUND.

Totals

Total revenue
$55,736
Total expenses
$22,346
Contributions and grants received
$55,736
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$87,536
Total liabilities, end of year
$976
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$86,560
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,416
Management and general expenses
$8,179
Fundraising expenses
$9,751
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,416

Program services were 19.8% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $55,736

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,830 · program services $2,655 · fundraising $175

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $248 · program services $234 · fundraising $14

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $244 · program services $230 · fundraising $14

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $100 · management and general $100

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $3,692 · management and general $3,692

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $38 · program services $38

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $1,684 · management and general $1,684

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $473 · program services $466 · fundraising $7

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,291 · program services $380 · management and general $1,398 · fundraising $513

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $10,386 · program services $122 · management and general $1,240 · fundraising $9,024

  • 17 · Travel

    total $103 · program services $36 · management and general $65 · fundraising $2

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $39 · program services $37 · fundraising $2

  • 24a · Other expenses: IN-KIND GOODS

    total $218 · program services $218

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $53,423 · end of year $87,520

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $260 · end of year $16

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $513 · end of year $976

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year -$31,748 · end of year $4,846

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $84,918 · end of year $81,714

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

EWG ACTION FUND (THE ACTION FUND) USES THE POWER OF INFORMATION TO PROTECT CITIZENS' HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THE ACTION FUND WILL CARRY OUT ITS MISSION BY PROMOTING PUBLIC LEGISLATIVE AWARENESS, EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY ON A RANGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROMOTE HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY ON A RANGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

  • TOXICS AND HUMAN HEALTH - THE ACTION FUND ADVOCATES AND EDUCATES THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON AREAS RELATED TO TOXIC CHEMICALS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS, AND HUMAN HEALTH. EXAMPLES INCLUDE COSMETICS AND PERSISTENT BIO ACCUMULATIVE TOXINS.

    Expenses $4,416

  • WATER AND AGRICULTURE - THE ACTION FUND EDUCATES DECISION-MAKERS AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE THREATS TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY FROM AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF, PESTICIDES ON FOOD, AND OF FARM SUBSIDIES TO LARGE CORPORATIONS.

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Durwood Zaelke

    CHAIR & PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ken Cook

    TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $324,714
    From this org
    $312,714
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,000
    Hours/week
    1

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $312,714
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,000
    Filer's total
    $324,714

  • Scott Mallan

    VP FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $233,919
    From this org
    $222,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,874
    Hours/week
    1

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $222,045
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,874
    Filer's total
    $233,919

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3
KEN COOK, WHO SERVES AS TREASURER, IS LISTED IN PART VII, SECTION A. HOWEVER, HE IS COMPENSATED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP (EWG), AN UNRELATED ORGANIZATION PER THE IRS INSTRUCTIONS. KEN COOK'S COMPENSATION PAID BY EWG WAS DETERMINED USING A REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY INDEPENDENT PERSONS, COMPARABILITY DATA, AND CONTEMPORANEOUS SUBSTANTIATION OF THE DELIBERATION AND DECISION.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
20 September 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202312709349300216

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