Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$358,469

Total expenses

$59,697

Contributions and grants received

$352,862

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$1,623

Investment income

$19

Other revenue

$3,965

Total assets, end of year

$542,104

Total liabilities, end of year

$11,667

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$530,437

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$45,024

Management and general expenses

$12,735

Fundraising expenses

$1,938

Program service expenses (Part III)

$45,024

Program services were 75.4% 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 · 2023

• EDUCATION: WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE SOUTH WHIDBEY SCHOOL DISTRICT, VARIOUS NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WERE DEVELOPED. IN THE SPRING, VARIOUS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS ATTENDED GRADE APPROPRIATE K TO 8TH GRADE CLASSES IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND AT WHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS' OUTDOOR CLASSROOM WHERE SMALL GROUPS OF STUDENTS EXPLORED THE FOREST AND STREAM ECOSYSTEMS AND THE PLANTS AND CREATURES WHO LIVE IN THEM. SPRING 2023 PROGRAMS CENTERED AROUND "WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS, MACROINVERTEBRATES IN THE STREAM AND NATIVE PLANTS". APPROX. 533 STUDENTS FROM 5 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. IN THE FALL, GRADES 1ST THROUGH 8TH STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN CLASSROOM PROGRAMS AND FIELD TRIPS TO THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM THAT EXPLORED OUR FASCINATING "SALMON IN THE ECOSYSTEM". STUDENTS ROTATED THROUGH VARIOUS HANDS-ON LEARNING ACTIVITIES APPROPRIATE FOR THEIR GRADE LEVEL. APPROX. 548 STUDENTS ACROSS 6 SCHOOLS DURING JULY AND AUGUST TWO DIFFERENT SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOUTH WHIDBEY PARKS AND RECREATION, WERE DEVELOPED AND CONDUCTED AT THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM. THE ANIMAL AMBASSADORS FOR AGES 5 THROUGH 8 EXPLORED ANIMAL CLASSIFICATIONS AND COMPLETED STEM ORIENTED ACTIVITIES PERTAINING TO FOREST-DWELLING ANIMAL SPECIES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THE SURVIVAL SCHOOL STUDENTS, AGES 9 THROUGH 12, LEARNED PRACTICAL WILDERNESS SKILLS AND ENGAGED IN HANDS ON SURVIVAL ACTIVITIES. 29 STUDENTS. SALMON IN THE CLASSROOM PROGRAM: INSTRUCTED 3RD AND 5TH GRADE STUDENTS ABOUT THE LIFE CYCLE OF SALMON. SALMON EGGS WERE PROVIDED TO THE SCHOOL AND REARED IN THE SCHOOL AQUARIUMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SALMON LIFE CYCLE LESSONS. WHEN THE FISH HATCHED AND REACHED FRY STAGE, THEY WERE RELEASED BY GROUPS OF STUDENTS WITH THEIR TEACHERS AND FAMILIES INTO MAXWELTON CREEK AT THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM. APPROX.50 STUDENTS. COMMUNITY EDUCATION WAS PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH VARIOUS FAMILY ORIENTED EVENTS, NEWSLETTERS, WEBSITE, AND SOCIAL MEDIA.

  Expenses $43,422 · Revenue $1,623

• CONSERVATION / RESEARCH: PARTICIPATED IN COMMUNITY, TRIBAL, AND GOVERNMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS. CONDUCTED A CRAB LARVA RESEARCH PROJECT AND PUBLIC OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST CRAB RESEARCH GROUP. 275 VOLUNTEER HOURS.

• STEWARDSHIP: PERFORMED FOREST, WETLAND AND PUBLIC BEACH RESTORATION AT 5 LOCATIONS ON SOUTH WHIDBEY ISLAND. APROX. 30 PEOPLE FOR 450 VOLUNTEER HOURS.

  Expenses $402

• SCHOLARSHIP: OFFERED ONE SCHOLARSHIP TO A SOUTH WHIDBEY HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PLANNING TO STUDY BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE IN COLLEGE AND WORKING IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD. EVA WIRTH RECEIVED A 1,200 SCHOLARSHIP PAID DIRECTLY TO WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

  Expenses $1,200

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

6 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202423119349302637

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