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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by CONCERNED RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENTAL WORKERS.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,094,617
Total expenses
$1,090,110
Contributions and grants received
$604,476
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$489,558
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$583
Total assets, end of year
$840,315
Total liabilities, end of year
$48,337
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$791,978
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$901,403
Management and general expenses
$95,406
Fundraising expenses
$93,301
Program service expenses (Part III)
$901,403

Program services were 82.7% 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

    $604,476

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program Service Revenue

    total $489,558 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other Revenue

    total $583 · related or exempt $583 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $583

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $696,099 · program services $590,710 · management and general $44,382 · fundraising $61,007

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $26,721 · program services $9,277 · management and general $8,722 · fundraising $8,722

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $58,416 · program services $49,571 · management and general $3,725 · fundraising $5,120

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $160 · program services $0 · management and general $160 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $17,551 · program services $0 · management and general $17,551 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $91,969 · program services $91,969 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $18,703 · program services $11,228 · management and general $5,605 · fundraising $1,870

  • 17 · Travel

    total $30,592 · program services $21,415 · management and general $6,118 · fundraising $3,059

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $11,112 · program services $10,578 · management and general $534 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $29,752 · program services $24,045 · management and general $4,516 · fundraising $1,191

  • 24a · Other expenses: Job Supplies

    total $10,678 · program services $10,678 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Repairs & Maintenance

    total $28,996 · program services $24,966 · management and general $2,958 · fundraising $1,072

  • 24c · Other expenses: Workers Compensation Insurance

    total $27,575 · program services $26,959 · management and general $308 · fundraising $308

  • 24d · Other expenses: R& M and Vehicle

    total $20,180 · program services $20,180 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $21,606 · program services $9,827 · management and general $827 · fundraising $10,952

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $532,914 · end of year $589,200

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $190,043 · end of year $110,353

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $12,891 · end of year $13,413

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

    $253,017

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

    $125,668

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $92,587 · end of year $127,349

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $40,964 · end of year $48,337

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $324,480 · end of year $279,212

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $462,991 · end of year $512,766

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The C.R.E.W. is an environmentally oriented youth leadership and employment and youth education nonprofit oganization. The C.R.E.W.s mission is to provide job training, paid employment and opportunites for leadership and community service for youth from Kindergarten to age 26, while preserving, maintaining, and improving public and private wildlands and protecting local communities against the threat of wildfire

Activities or mission (Part I)

C.R.E.W. is an environmentally oriented leadership, employment, and education program for young people from Kindergarten to age 26

  • 1) Fire mitigation services; Prevention of wildfires by the free removal of hazardous vegetative fuels brush clearance for low income seniors, veterans and disabled residents, this program also provides free chipping services for all Ojai Valley residents. 2) Trail repair and construction programs: Trail construction and repair on private and public lands with priority focus within the catastrophic 2017 Thomas Fire Burn Scar 3) Environmental and conservation work: Restoration and Conservation of multiple acre projects that involves trail construction for public access, vegetation management, alternative treatments, irrigation, planting and mainteance of critical habitats.

    Expenses $616,525 · Grants $15,000 · Revenue $489,558

  • Green Valley Project - A movement by high school students in the Ojai Valley and surrounding communities to make a difference by repairing our environment- by planting trees, removing invasive vegetation, restoring damaged meadow or forest habitats for birds, bees, butterflies, or creeks for fish and turtles.

    Expenses $179,815 · Grants $200,000

  • Once upon a Watershed: Once upon a Watershed provides hands-on local watershed education, restoration and environmental stewardship experience for Kindergarten through 8th grade students in the Ventura River Watershed. Through hands-on, standards-based environmental education, our programs cultivate a sense of shared responsibility for our whole earth system, instilling confidence and hope by empowering young people to make a real difference at the local watershed scale.

    Expenses $105,063 · Grants $110,600

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Larry Beckett

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michelle Henson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Mary Bergen

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Laura Ciontea

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Sandy Buechley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bill Brothers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Becky Beckett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bill Slaughter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John McNeil

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Atticus Reyes

    Director

    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
2023
Filed
2 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202422139349301482

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