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← RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$504,247
Total expenses
$498,786
Contributions and grants received
$28,674
Grants paid
$300
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$4
Other revenue
$475,569
Total assets, end of year
$181,918
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$181,918
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$497,865
Management and general expenses
$921
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$497,865

Program services were 99.8% 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

    $28,674

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $4 · excluded $4

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $945,157

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $467,622

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $477,535 · excluded $477,535

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $2,238

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $4,204

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total -$1,966 · related or exempt -$1,966

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $300 · program services $300

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $398 · management and general $398

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $251 · program services $251

  • 24a · Other expenses: PAYMENTS TO NATIONAL

    total $472,839 · program services $472,839

  • 24b · Other expenses: HABITAT MANAGEMENT

    total $18,970 · program services $18,970

  • 24c · Other expenses: DONATIONS

    total $5,391 · program services $5,391

  • 24d · Other expenses: SERVICE CHARGES

    total $523 · management and general $523

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $114 · program services $114

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $176,457 · end of year $181,918

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $176,457 · end of year $181,918

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

ESTABLISHED IN 1961, THE RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY UNITES CONSERVATIONISTS TO IMPROVE WILDLIFE HABITAT AND FOREST HEALTH AND PROMOTE A CONSERVATION ETHIC, ALL GROUNDED IN THE TENETS OF SCIENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ESTABLISHED IN 1961, THE RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY IS NORTH AMERICA'S FOREMOST (CONT. ON SCHEDULE O)

  • RGS UNITES CONSERVATIONISTS TO IMPROVE WILDLIFE HABITAT AND FOREST HEALTH. SINCE 1961, RGS HAS PROMOTED STEWARDSHIP FOR OUR FORESTS, OUR WILDLIFE, AND OUR FUTURE. OUR VISION IS TO CREATE LANDSCAPES OF DIVERSE, FUNCTIONING FOREST ECOSYSTEMS THAT PROVIDE HOMES FOR WILDLIFE AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THEM.

    Expenses $497,565

  • EDUCATION IS CRITICAL TO PROTECTING, RESTORING AND CREATING EARLY SUCCESSIONAL FORESTS THAT PROVIDE HABITAT FOR RUFFED GROUSE, WOODCOCK, SONGBIRDS AND OTHER FOREST WILDLIFE. RGS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS PROMOTE SCIENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $300 · Grants $300

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Julie Sandstrom

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Seth E Dizard Esq

    VICE CHAIR & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Brian W Smith

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Joseph Lehmann

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • David Kuritzky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • David Moore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Bruce A Bennett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • George Rich

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Ed Shuford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Joseph M Byers Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Nelson Freeman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Robert Unkovic

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Roy Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Terry Wilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Tracy Lee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • W Stephen Maritz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Benjamin C Jones

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $256,577
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $227,454
    Other
    $29,123
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $227,454 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $29,123 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $256,577 related

  • Kimberly D Swisher

    FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION D

    Total calculated
    $109,984
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $89,801
    Other
    $20,183
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

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

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.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
14 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202423199349312977

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