Form 990 for tax year 2022

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2022 , filed 17 March 2025. matched by us Only the Part I totals and the names listed in Part VII are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue

$3,117,948 →changed to $2,536,482

Contributions and grants received

$2,651,584 →changed to $2,070,118

Total liabilities, end of year

$563,315 →changed to $1,144,781

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$19,627,037 →changed to $19,045,571

Totals

Total revenue

$3,117,948

Total expenses

$2,456,174

Contributions and grants received

$2,651,584

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$123,272

Investment income

$307,933

Other revenue

$35,159

Total assets, end of year

$20,190,352

Total liabilities, end of year

$563,315

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$19,627,037

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,927,983

Management and general expenses

$419,451

Fundraising expenses

$108,740

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,927,983

Program services were 78.5% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• Rooting Youth in Nature: LandPaths creates models for impactful nature-based youth experiences. We draw heavily on research finding that multi-day programs and consistent mentors are key factors that increase the long-term impact on a child's relationship and attitudes toward nature.In Our Own Backyard is a nature awareness program built to enhance student connection and confidence in the outdoors. In Our Own Backyard, school-based, provides an in-depth experience with 4-full day field trips, and 2 classroom visits over the course of the school year, averaging 20 hours in the field per student. In Our Own Backyard curriculum correlates with many of the state and federal science, math, language arts and physical education standards, and anticipates strong alignment with common core and next generation science standards. In Our Own Backyard serves approximately 700 students, is offered for free to schools with over 50% of the student body qualifying for free and reduced lunch. In 2012, LandPaths launched a teen-focused program, Inspired Forward. Built on the In Our Own Backyard model, Inspired Forward is a field-based, multi-day program. Inspired Forward is an unique offering to low-income and underrepresented youth, providing experiential learning opportunities and tackling teen issues of gang prevention, substance use, and other challenges through developing a strong sense of belonging, confidence, and leadership while role-modeling positive choices. Inspired Forward is offered free to schools and partner organizations serving low-income communities. In 2020 and 2021, LandPaths was one of the only Organizations in Sonoma County to provide nature-based camps in the face of the pandemic. LandPaths provided 12 weeks of Covid-safe day camps to 375 youth, providing scholarships to 118 of those campers. LandPaths own camp is a nature-based summer immersion program for kids from 6 to 13 years old. Owl camp offers a rich place for children to explore the natural world, test out new ideas and experience the freedom of child-directed, open-ended learning through nature exploration and play guided in small groups by expert educators. Each summer as children work through how to build a fort, experiment with art, or discover native plants and animals, they are exercising their brains in important ways-and building a memorable connection with the land in every step. LandPaths also offers Rivertrek camps. In 2020-2021 the Rivertrek was converted to a multi-day day program to ensure covid-safety, successfully serving 23 teens. Consistent with LandPath's youth programs, these camps immerse youth in nature and develop outdoor skills, such as paddling, camp cooking, fire starting, filtering water all the way down to caring for your feet and hands (and blisters). These experiences and skill development, build participant sense of belonging (with nature and with peers) and confidence in continuing outdoor activities and exploration for a lifetime.Branching Out Conservation for Everyone: LandPaths is Sonoma county's lead public access organization, working county-wide and providing over 200 free to the public outings annually with over 5,000 participants-all with an exemplary safety record. Diverse by Design, LandPaths outings and Vamos Afuera, include themed hikes, farm tours, camp outs, kayak trips, Spanish-language and stewardship projects allowing residents and visitors to discover the county's beauty and take part in its healing. We tap our community's local knowledge and experience in creating the outings and shaping engaging programs. Our passion is to invite all Sonoma county residents outdoors-including the most reluctant or unfamiliar-sparking their curiosity in nature through positive and relevant nature-based experiences.In 2007, LandPaths broke ground at Bayer farm setting off an avalanche of "Firsts." Bayer farm was our first urban park project, our first partnership with the city of Santa Rosa, our first partnership with the Latino community, and our first community garden. Since that time Bayer farm has grown into a farm-based community center with programs ranging from Iread Outside, a nature-based early childhood literacy program to summer free lunch. In 2017 we were invited to partner with Sonoma county regional parks to create another community garden based on the Bayer farm model at Andy Unity Park. Program accomplishments in these place-based, outdoor community hubs included two summer free lunch programs in partnership with Redwood Community Foodbank, and converting educational garden plots into food production plots to provide access to nutritious, organic food to 85 families in the low-income, primarily LatinX communities surrounding the two community gardens. In 2020-21, Volunteers did 7,954 hours of volunteer service at Bayer farm and Jeff's Garden (formerly Andy's Unity Park Community Garden).Growing Community with Nature/Community Care: LandPaths champions community conservation, where residents participate in actions that support a healthy community-nature and people alike.People powered parks is our approach to land stewardship, on our own lands and lands we assist in managing for agency partners. LandPaths owns six unique preserves in Sonoma County: Bohemia Ecological Preserve, Ocean Song, and Grove of the Old Trees in West County, Rancho Mark West and Calistoga Road in Northeast Santa Rosa, and Riddell Preserve in the Healdsburg Area. Totaling over 2,000 protected acres of land in Sonoma County, the properties are diverse in habitat values, from old growth redwoods, serpentine soils and associated plant community, madrone and oak woodland, to Salomon bearing creeks. Our preserves originate with shared values between the landowner and LandPaths-values of land stewardship and community engagement. LandPaths actively takes care of these lands with on-going community investments to remove non-native plant species and planting natives to improve native wildlife habitat, repairing old ranch roads to improve water quality and steelhead spawning habitat, and building trails for future public use. in 2021, LandPaths acquired the Myers parcel adjoining Ocean Song preserve in West Sonoma County, creating an almost 800 acre unified preserve, which will contribute to carbon sequestration, fire fuel reduction, habitat protection, and outdoor educational opportunities in our region. The young stewards launched in 2021, arising from our commitment to build climate and wildfire resilience locally, advance equity in the conservation field through intentional recruitment and paid work experience, and respond to the need for green workforce training for young adults, who've been left to contend with the climate crisis. Now in its fourth session, the program has reached 23 young people. LandPaths' people powered parks model has also assisted agencies from city, regional to state parks, transition properties to public parks. LandPaths currently assists with: (1) Bayer Farm, LandPaths' farm-based park in the lowest income area of Santa Rosa in partnership with the City of Santa Rosa, serving 40 families with garden allotments, and over 1,000 community residents and school-age youth, many visiting repeatedly throughout the year, and (2) Fitch Mountain and Healdsburg Ridge, with 230 acres of natural open space, with the City of Healdsburg. People powered parks foster individual and community commitments to nature and community.Treksonoma combines our love of bringing people outdoors with our interest in linking land (public and private) together, creating wildlife and community linkages. Most of this programming has been hiatus during the pandemic for health safety. These multi-day experiences cultivate a group conversation, learning and connection to the landscape, its diversity of habitats and land uses, land stewardship, people and each other-building blocks to a sustainable community. LandPaths is committed to building a network of routes where we all can walk-roll-paddle, where our children can do this with their schoolmates, where we are welcomed as we pass through, and where we can refocus energy on healthy land, healthy people, and healthy community.

  Expenses $1,927,983 · Revenue $123,272

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

14 May 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202441359349307874

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