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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by BACKBONE CAMPAIGN.

Totals

Total revenue
$306,121
Total expenses
$300,795
Contributions and grants received
$203,856
Grants paid
$111
Program service revenue
$93,089
Investment income
$5,952
Other revenue
$3,224
Total assets, end of year
$380,751
Total liabilities, end of year
$5,526
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$375,225
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$234,900
Management and general expenses
$51,815
Fundraising expenses
$14,080
Program service expenses (Part III)
$234,900

Program services were 78.1% 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

    $203,856

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $250

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Artful Activism

    total $77,047 · related or exempt $77,047

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Education Events

    total $1,519 · related or exempt $1,519

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Fiscal Sponsorship

    total $814 · related or exempt $814

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Solutionary Rail

    total $224 · related or exempt $224

  • 2e · Program service revenue: Save Wild Salmon

    total $13,485 · related or exempt $13,485

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $4,034 · excluded $4,034

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $3,224 · excluded $3,224

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    other assets $6,591

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    other assets $4,673

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    other assets $1,918

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $1,918

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $111 · program services $111

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $63,850 · program services $52,995 · management and general $7,024 · fundraising $3,831

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $78,522 · program services $65,857 · management and general $8,096 · fundraising $4,569

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $18,684 · program services $15,450 · management and general $2,079 · fundraising $1,155

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $15,003 · program services $11,975 · management and general $2,185 · fundraising $843

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,788 · management and general $1,788

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,626 · management and general $5,626

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $22,796 · program services $22,462 · management and general $334

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,056 · program services $1,056

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $5,984 · program services $3,543 · management and general $2,202 · fundraising $239

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $7,235 · program services $2,566 · management and general $4,669

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $4,575 · management and general $4,575

  • 17 · Travel

    total $17,628 · program services $13,013 · management and general $4,615

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $3,149 · management and general $3,149

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,137 · management and general $3,137

  • 24a · Other expenses: Program Expenses

    total $44,730 · program services $44,730

  • 24b · Other expenses: Licenses, Taxes & Fees

    total $5,621 · program services $264 · management and general $1,914 · fundraising $3,443

  • 24c · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions

    total $898 · program services $487 · management and general $411

  • 24d · Other expenses: Misc Expense

    total $402 · program services $391 · management and general $11

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $38,378 · end of year $54,251

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $220,106 · end of year $2,905

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $4,018

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $223,416

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $15,742

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $4,673 · end of year $207,674

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $155,439 · end of year $111,903

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $3,688 · end of year $5,526

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $414,908 · end of year $375,225

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Backbone Campaign amplifies the aspirations of "We the People" with creative strategies & artful activism to manifest a world where life, community, nature, and our obligations (continued on Schedule O)

Activities or mission (Part I)

Backbone Campaign amplifies the aspirations of We the People with creative strategies and artful activism

  • Backbone Campaign's Artful Activism developed and deployed innovative skills, tactics, and creativity to amplify progressive values to inform and inspire the public's mind, heart and imagination. We hosted an Action Camp and trained 45 BIPOC leaders in kayaktivism, then supported a powerful action near the Summit of the Americas, demanding Zero Emissions Now! We utilized our projection gear and other creative tools to call for separation of church and state, progressive taxation, climate action, medicare for all, racial justice, ending single use plastics, stopping extinction, asylee protections, workers' rights and more.

    Expenses $104,576 · Revenue $77,046

  • Our Solutionary Rail project champions rail in the public interest and researches and advocates for electrification, modeshift, and transmission of green energy along rail right of way. Solutionary Rail also, through its webinars and calls to action, helped to amplify the voices and demands of railroad workers as they prepared for a strike. In 2022, we did a deep dive into what it would take to transition the shipping of grain in SE Washington off barges and onto rail, in the event the lock and dam system of the Lower Snake River is shut down. Our research resulted in the "Trains Can Save Salmon Plan." It is a blueprint for a resilient and revitalized region in SE Washington, with connected freight and passenger rail.

    Expenses $90,442 · Revenue $224

  • Backbone Campaign executed a number of creative actions advocating for the restoration of the Snake River through breaching the four dams on the lower part of the river. We took props - puppets and banners - to Washington DC several times, showed up across the region with compelling imagery, bannered on overpasses, created Human Orca Murals with hundreds of people, and led processions in communities, to draw attention to the urgent need to stop extinction of orca and salmon. We received television coverage of our creative actions, as well as earned media in newspapers, from the New York Times to regional newspapers.

    Expenses $8,994 · Revenue $13,485

  • Education Events

    Expenses $4,845 · Revenue $1,520

  • Local Resiliance

    Expenses $7,911

  • Fiscal Sponsorship

    Expenses $18,132 · Revenue $814

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

Listed in Part VII

  • William Moyer

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $67,199
    From this org
    $61,835
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,364
    Hours/week
    40

  • Amy Morrison

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $67,200
    From this org
    $60,539
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,661
    Hours/week
    40

  • Margaret Flowers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Rogers-Wright

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Snyder

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Blake Kremer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rivera Sun

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David McLanahan

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yvette Arellano

    CoChair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Lou Finley

    CoChair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
2022
Filed
30 October 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202323039349302182

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