Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC.

Totals

Total revenue: $3,416,327
Total expenses: $3,619,336
Contributions and grants received: $3,046,104
Grants paid: $0
Program service revenue: $0
Investment income: $349,334
Other revenue: $20,889
Total assets, end of year: $16,954,043
Total liabilities, end of year: $298,699
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $16,655,344
Program services expenses (Part IX): $2,680,060
Management and general expenses: $600,090
Fundraising expenses: $339,186
Program service expenses (Part III): $2,680,060

Program services were 74.0% 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.

1b · Membership dues

$2,102,770
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$943,334
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$244,175
3 · Investment income

total $289,566 · excluded $289,566
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $1,862,015
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $1,802,247
7c · Gain or loss

securities $59,768
7d · Net gain or loss

total $59,768 · excluded $59,768
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$26,630
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$6,901
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total $19,729 · excluded $19,729
11a · Other revenue: Other Income

total $1,160 · excluded $1,160
11e · Other revenue, total

$1,160

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $402,943 · program services $317,254 · management and general $50,085 · fundraising $35,604
7 · Other salaries and wages

total $1,683,792 · program services $1,325,721 · management and general $209,293 · fundraising $148,778
8 · Pension plan contributions

total $102,792 · program services $80,932 · management and general $12,777 · fundraising $9,083
9 · Other employee benefits

total $300,631 · program services $238,568 · management and general $39,017 · fundraising $23,046
10 · Payroll taxes

total $153,859 · program services $121,740 · management and general $19,654 · fundraising $12,465
11b · Fees: legal

total $14,776 · management and general $14,776
11c · Fees: accounting

total $30,886 · management and general $30,886
11f · Fees: investment management

total $90,598 · management and general $90,598
11g · Fees: other

total $227,236 · program services $181,396 · management and general $37,031 · fundraising $8,809
12 · Advertising and promotion

total $42,685 · program services $41,766 · management and general $765 · fundraising $154
13 · Office expenses

total $168,131 · program services $93,296 · management and general $17,758 · fundraising $57,077
14 · Information technology

total $107,500 · program services $58,214 · management and general $31,597 · fundraising $17,689
16 · Occupancy

total $44,649 · program services $37,775 · management and general $3,572 · fundraising $3,302
17 · Travel

total $21,154 · program services $15,625 · management and general $4,103 · fundraising $1,426
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $81,841 · program services $59,724 · management and general $19,912 · fundraising $2,205
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

total $49,078 · program services $41,522 · management and general $3,927 · fundraising $3,629
23 · Insurance

total $20,791 · program services $17,590 · management and general $1,664 · fundraising $1,537
24a · Other expenses: Miscellaneous Expense

total $47,899 · program services $34,314 · management and general $4,557 · fundraising $9,028
24b · Other expenses: Subscription and Dues

total $28,095 · program services $14,623 · management and general $8,118 · fundraising $5,354
26 · Joint costs (an allocation of the lines above)

total $49,153 · program services $16,384 · management and general $0 · fundraising $32,769

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $100 · end of year $125
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

beginning of year $2,493,763 · end of year $1,965,783
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $332,204 · end of year $206,535
4 · Accounts receivable

beginning of year $2,639 · end of year $5,674
8 · Inventories for sale or use

beginning of year $5,525 · end of year $6,844
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $61,364 · end of year $22,075
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

$1,332,211
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

$1,037,657
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

beginning of year $295,989 · end of year $294,554
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

beginning of year $13,862,496 · end of year $14,025,983
12 · Investments: other securities

beginning of year $761,354 · end of year $426,470
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $304,486 · end of year $298,699
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $14,669,040 · end of year $14,339,005
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $2,841,908 · end of year $2,316,339

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) works to protect, restore, and conserve Maine's environment, now and for future generations. We harness the power of science, the law, and the voices of nearly 30,000 members, supporters, and activists to secure the most effective safeguards for Maine's environment and communities. Our five advocacy programs are Climate & Clean Energy; Forests & Wildlife; Healthy Waters; Sustainable Maine; and Federal.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) works to protect, restore, and conserve Maine's environment, now and for future generations.

Outreach: NRCM's outreach team engages our supporters and the public using a diverse array of tools. In addition to providing strategic outreach for our advocacy programs and issue campaigns, we focus on values-based, transformational organizing and leadership development to protect Maine's environment. With increased staff capacity in Franklin County, we are committed to building lasting relationships and partnerships with individuals and local organizations across that region. Through our digital outreach, NRCM communicates with our members, supporters, policy makers, and the public using email updates and calls to action, virtual and in-person meetings and events, and social media to advance our mission and meet the goals of our advocacy programs. Through NRCM Rising, we engage people in their 20s-40s around issues important to Maine's next generation of environmental leaders, while also providing networking with peers and leadership development to build Maine's environmental movement.

Expenses $545,699
Climate & Clean Energy: NRCM is a leader in advocating for policies to reduce the threat of climate change and promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. We are working with state officials and agencies, scientists and technical experts, legislators, community leaders, state and national environmental organizations, and many other allies to build momentum for deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and a rapid transition to a clean energy grid that powers Maine's businesses, homes, transportation, and heating systems.

Expenses $490,311
Communications: NRCM communicates with our members, supporters, policy makers, and the public using email updates, single-issue reports, direct mail, radio, videos, social media, and our website. The wide range of tools we regularly use advances our mission and helps to meet the goals of our programs.

Expenses $439,489
Sustainable Maine: Tapping into the state's strong tradition of local action, NRCM takes a practical, collaborative approach to addressing environmental problems faced by Maine people, businesses, and communities, particularly to prevent and better manage waste. NRCM seeks to achieve systemic changes in policies and practices at the local and state levels to reduce the environmental impacts of daily living. NRCM has helped achieve many first-in-the-nation policies to reduce plastic, packaging, and difficult-to-manage materials and works to ensure that corporations responsible for generating waste become part of the solution for recycling, reduced packaging, and design changes in products. Healthy Waters: NRCM plays a critical role in preventing pollution to Maine waterways and advocating for policies to improve the health of our rivers, lakes, and streams, as well as the communities, wildlife, and fisheries that depend upon those waters. NRCM focuses on removal of obsolete dams that block fish migration, preventing toxic pollution such as mineral mining, and watchdogging permit applications and policy proposals that could threaten Maine waters.State House Advocacy: NRCM is Maine's leading environmental advocate at the State House, using its policy advocates and outreach staff to track and influence dozens of bills each legislative session. NRCM drafts legislation and amendments, testifies before multiple committees, works with coalitions on legislative strategies, and provides education to elected officials as they seek passage of important legislative proposals across a range of issues.Forests & Wildlife: NRCM works to protect Maine's natural areas, wildlife habitat, and the undeveloped character of Maine's North Woods. We support responsible land development and sustainable forest practices that protect sensitive ecosystems and habitat. We also advocate for increased public ownership of Maine lands to improve access to the natural world for Maine people and visitors. While development pressures and the loss of public access continue to intensify, NRCM remains a leading voice for balancing economic development with conservation, especially in Maine's iconic North Woods.Federal: Decisions made in Washington, D.C., have lasting effects on Maine's clean air and water, thriving forests and wildlife, and on the health of Maine people, its economy, and its way of life. NRCM works directly with Maine's Congressional delegation and with a broad coalition of national environmental organizations and in-state allies to help ensure that policy decisions in Washington contribute to the protection of Maine's environment.

Expenses $1,204,561

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

Listed in Part VII

Edward Simmons

Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Maria Gallace

Vice Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Norton H Lamb

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Amy Scott

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lucy Abbott

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Emily Beck

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sarah Cotton

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Seana Cullinan

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sam Day

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Anthony Eames

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Francesca Galluccio-Steele

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Marcia Harrington

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Diana McDowell

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Peter S Millard

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sadie Lloyd Mudge

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kathryn Olmstead

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Elizabeth A Rettenmaier

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
David Schylling

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Stephanie Smith

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ben Whalen

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Anne S Winchester

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Bonnie S Wood

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
William Meserve

Past Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dennis King

Past Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sarah Short

Past Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael Catania

Past Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Rebeccah Sanders

Curent CEO

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Peter Didisheim

Interim CEO (Jul-Dec) see Sch O

Total calculated

$138,763

From this org

$108,165

From related orgs

$0

Other

$30,598

Hours/week

40
Kathryn Hyttel

Director of Finance

Total calculated

$109,116

From this org

$90,786

From related orgs

$0

Other

$18,330

Hours/week

40
Lisa Pohlmann

Past CEO

Total calculated

$155,063

From this org

$128,376

From related orgs

$0

Other

$26,687

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$53,848

Bonus

$0

Other

$74,528

Deferred

$3,769

Nontaxable benefits

$22,918

Filer's total

$155,063

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

3 · Compensation committee
3 · Compensation survey or study
3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
4a · Severance or change-of-control payment

Answered no

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 4a: During the calendar year 2022, Lisa Pohlmann, Past Chief Executive Officer, received a severance payment of $74,528.

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.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Related corporations and trusts

Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.

Katrina Chamberlin Trust

T · Banking · ME · 100% owned · controlled entity

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2022
Filed: 31 October 2023
IRS schema version: 2022v5.0
Source object: 202323199349302577

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