Form 990 for tax year 2022
Filed by SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN WILDERNESS STEWARDS.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,034,257
- Total expenses
- $1,031,898
- Contributions and grants received
- $135,487
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $888,241
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $10,529
- Total assets, end of year
- $264,775
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $78,519
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $186,256
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $734,041
- Management and general expenses
- $216,675
- Fundraising expenses
- $81,182
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $734,041
Program services were 71.1% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$135,487
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$503
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2a · Program service revenue: Government Contracts
total $802,679 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Program Revenue
total $85,562 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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9a · Gaming: gross income
$796
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $796 · excluded $796
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11a · Other revenue: Worker's Compensation Refund
total $9,606 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $9,606
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11b · Other revenue: Insurance Refund
total $54 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $54
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11c · Other revenue: Reimbursements
total $73 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $73
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11e · Other revenue, total
$9,733
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $82,634 · program services $43,796 · management and general $27,269 · fundraising $11,569
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $647,615 · program services $472,180 · management and general $123,178 · fundraising $52,257
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $35,840 · program services $31,214 · management and general $3,681 · fundraising $945
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $52,541 · program services $40,457 · management and general $8,932 · fundraising $3,152
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11b · Fees: legal
total $224 · program services $23 · management and general $188 · fundraising $13
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $10,126 · program services $0 · management and general $10,126 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $16,028 · program services $9,173 · management and general $5,122 · fundraising $1,733
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $166 · program services $7 · management and general $64 · fundraising $95
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13 · Office expenses
total $9,149 · program services $4,367 · management and general $4,062 · fundraising $720
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14 · Information technology
total $9,375 · program services $4,687 · management and general $3,750 · fundraising $938
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16 · Occupancy
total $21,637 · program services $6,491 · management and general $12,982 · fundraising $2,164
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17 · Travel
total $78,925 · program services $77,109 · management and general $1,135 · fundraising $681
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $2,965 · program services $0 · management and general $2,965 · fundraising $0
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20 · Interest
total $702 · program services $562 · management and general $105 · fundraising $35
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $4,568 · program services $3,655 · management and general $685 · fundraising $228
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23 · Insurance
total $36,648 · program services $23,902 · management and general $9,908 · fundraising $2,838
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24a · Other expenses: Program Supplies
total $9,260 · program services $9,260 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: Staff Training
total $4,995 · program services $4,246 · management and general $749 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: Miscellaneous Expense
total $6,333 · program services $2,912 · management and general $1,774 · fundraising $1,647
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24d · Other expenses: Event Expense
total $2,167 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $2,167
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $55,175 · end of year $81,940
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $188,580 · end of year $10,000
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $158,811
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $2,522 · end of year $2,522
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$94,042
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$94,042
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $4,568 · end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $1,732 · end of year $11,502
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $63,552 · end of year $68,749
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $5,128
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $9,770
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $183,897 · end of year $186,256
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
SAWS exists to set standards of excellence that inspire, connect, and equip people to steward wild landscapes.
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Stewardship (Field Crews, Rangers, Specialists): SAWS created 16 new jobs this year, hiring seasonals across the country to steward wild public land in the southeast as wilderness field crew leaders and members, wilderness rangers, and wilderness specialists. Among many stewardship highlights, SAWS cleared 28 miles of trail of vegetation, removed 1063 downed trees, and installed 186 wooden and stone steps. Our stewardship staff removed a whopping 799 pounds of trash while collecting important wilderness data and connecting with 3232 visitors in the field. In addition to SAWS mighty presence in the field, wilderness specialists also completed 52 technical wilderness character documents including detailed narratives of special wild places as well as scouring files and databases to compile key information and data about these places that will form a baseline for monitoring wilderness character indefinitely.
Expenses $734,041 · Revenue $888,241
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Partnership and Outreach: SAWS participated in or hosted 78 stewardship events with 35 being volunteer, 26 education, and 17 community events across our bootprint. SAWS accumulated 36,900 stewardship hours that covered 9 states and 45 wildernesses in 2022 alone. One large outreach event SAWS plans and co-hosts is The Bridge Program, a candidate hub focused on people of color and underrepresented backgrounds in the environmental sector. We offer career navigation support, professional development, networking with like-minded candidates and intentional employers, as well as vetted job posting opportunities. The Bridge Program worked with hundreds of underrepresented candidates and helped them secure a wide range of environmental jobs in communications, policy, law, operations, sales, development, philanthropy, human resources, and more. We also interacted with 26 teachers and 150 students in public schools and community events.
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Training and Education: SAWS planned, organized, and executed the Southern Region's Wilderness Skills Institute (WSI), a free regional traditional tools and wilderness training for federal agency staff, partners, and volunteers across the southeast. SAWS co-hosts WSI with the U.S. Forest Service and Appalachian Trail Conservancy. In 2023 we were able to offer 8 separate courses for approximately 100 participants across 21 partner organizations and 11 national forests, and for 64 first time participants. In addition to WSI, SAWS was able to award another 134 crosscut saw certifications across the country as SAWS was sought outside our regular bootprint. We executed another 9 training courses including crosscut saw, wilderness 101, wilderness values, trail maintenance, and trail design and construction.
As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Kaitlin de Varona
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $74,412
- From this org
- $59,699
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,713
- Hours/week
- 40
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Chris Sporl
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Kim Smith Woodford
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Nealon DeVore
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
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Paul Dickens
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Bart Hawley
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Aliya Naim
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Anya Boyko
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lornett Vestal
Board Member
- 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
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 22 July 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202442079349301304
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