Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$11,433

Total expenses

$10,629

Contributions and grants received

$11,409

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$24

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$6,138,648

Total liabilities, end of year

$6,135,387

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,261

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$10,629

Management and general expenses

$0

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$10,629

Program services were 100.0% 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.

Mission and programs · 2025

• In 2025, Wilderness East (WE) furthered its official mission of advancing wildlands protection in Appalachia by supporting and collaborating with the nonprofit Arc of Appalachia, as prioritized in its Articles of Incorporation. The mission of Wilderness East is to help the Arc of Appalachia, and other nonprofit land trusts when relevant, acquire new natural areas by buying and holding them temporarily in order to give time for the initiating land trust to raise funds to buy and permanently secure them as enduring nature preserves. In 2025, WE acquired, via secured promissory notes held by the Arc of Appalachia, the following properties: Four acquisitions to expand the Arc of Appalachia's Tobacco Barn Hollow Preserve in Pike County, Ohio, the acreages being 46, 5, 24, and 112, respectively, Five Miles on the Gauley near Craigsville, WV, totaling 1,336 acres, The Emerald Forest Hocking Hills, Ohio, totaling 114 acres, and Keystone Swamp in Jackson County, Ohio, totaling 54.065 acres.

  Expenses $10,629

• Wilderness East accomplished an inner strengthening in 2025, significantly expanding its board members and invigorating its goals and missions. A website was designed and published, a logo was designed, and plans were made to engage Wilderness East Board Members as volunteers to increase the number of free or low-cost educational programs presented in Arc of Appalachia preserves in 2026. Board Members also committed to significantly increase their knowledge of negotiating and managing conservation easements so that WE could accept conservation easements capably in the future, if the need arose.

As filed on the 2025 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

29 July 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.0

Source object

202632109349301758

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