Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$1,149,523

Total expenses

$1,094,009

Contributions and grants received

$1,050,453

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$2,948

Other revenue

$96,122

Total assets, end of year

$548,427

Total liabilities, end of year

$15,526

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$532,901

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,040,852

Management and general expenses

$48,169

Fundraising expenses

$4,988

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,040,852

Program services were 95.1% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• FREEDOM TO ROAM: CALIFORNIA PROJECT - FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT HAVE GONE TOWARDS THE LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF THE BLUE-CHIP NATURE DOCUMENTARY "FREEDOM TO ROAM" (WORKING TITLE). BASED ON BRAIDED RIVER BOOK WITH FLORIAN SCHULZ, THE WILD EDGE AND OTHER FREEDOM TO ROAM ASSETS, THIS FILM PROJECT IS CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALLEN PREGER AND THE MARGOT MACDOUGALL FAMILY FOUNDATION. GOALS OF THE PROJECT ARE TO EDUCATE ABOUT THE PACIFIC COAST'S MAJOR MARINE CORRIDOR FROM BAJA, CALIFORNIA TO BEAUFORT, ALASKA AND TO INFLUENCE BEHAVIORS AND POLICIES THAT MAINTAIN BIOLOGICAL HOTSPOTS CORE TO INTERCONNECTED WILDLIFE CORRIDORS INTACT AND HEALTHY. POSITIVELY IMPACTS THE SUSTAINABILITY OF BOTH WILDLIFE AND HUMAN COMMUNITIES.

  Expenses $653,605

• LIVING RIVER - THIS BOOK AND VISUAL CAMPAIGN RELEASED IN APRIL 2023 HAS BEEN EDUCATING ABOUT THE IMPERILED COLORADO RIVER WATERSHED. TO DATE, THE AUTHOR DAVE SHOWALTER HAS PRESENTED AT 19 IN-PERSON AND DIGITAL EVENTS AS A PART OF THE LIVING RIVER EVENTS SERIES, REACHING A TOTAL OF 4105 PEOPLE IN PERSON IN COLORADO, ARIZONA, NEVADA, UTAH, WYOMING, AND CALIFORNIA. LARGEST IN-PERSON SPEAKING EVENT WAS 380-PERSON AUDIENCE AT DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE IN THEIR IMAX THEATER, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUDUBON ROCKIES. THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN A GREAT SUCCESS, WITH A CONSERVATIVE TEN MILLION IMPRESSIONS, REACHING ACROSS THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKETS IN PRINT, RADIO INTERVIEWS, AND AT LEAST 92 TELEVISION SPOTS IN REGIONAL MARKETS FROM ANCHORAGE TO ALBUQUERQUE. THE BOOK HAD NATIONAL AUDIENCE REACH IN THE NATURAL HISTORY AND LITERARY SPACE, WITH PROMINENT FEATURES IN NBC AND AFFILIATE STATIONS, ORION, NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE, AND TERRAIN.ORG. LIVING RIVER WAS AWARDED THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND ALSO WAS NAMED ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' 100 BEST INDIE BOOKS OF 2023.

  Expenses $105,779

• AMERICA'S ARCTIC - BRAIDED RIVER IS A MEDIA PARTNER ALONGSIDE A COALITION OF NATIONAL CONSERVATION AND INDIGENOUS NONPROFITS SUPPORTING SCIENCE AND CULTURAL EDUCATION AROUND THE ALASKAN ARCTIC. WE ARE SUPPORTING THE IMPACT CAMPAIGN FOR AN EDUCATIONAL GIANT SCREEN FILM CALLED THE ARCTIC: OUR LAST GREAT WILDERNESS, WHICH HAS BEEN MANY YEARS IN THE MAKING. THE FILM HAS BEEN SHOWN AT MORE THAN 15 THEATERS AT MAJOR SCIENCE CENTERS, FOR MORE THAN 10,000 PEOPLE, INCLUDING SEVERAL THOUSAND SCHOOL GROUPS, AND EDUCATORS. WE HAVE ALSO SUPPORTED FILM AND STORYTELLING EFFORTS DIGITALLY, ON A SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB PLATFORM CALLED PROTECT THE ARCTIC, WHICH HAS MORE THAN 70,000 FOLLOWERS.

  Expenses $99,399

• OTHER PROGRAMS - (1) BOOK DEVELOPMENT OF BIG RIVER: RESILIENCE AND RENEWAL IN THE COLUMBIA BASIN - A BOOK AND VISUAL STORYTELLING CAMPAIGN THAT WILL ILLUMINATE THE BEAUTIFUL AND COMPLICATED COLUMBIA RIVER WATERSHED, FROM SEA TO SOURCE. WE ARE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT THE BOOK'S FIELDWORK, EDITORIAL DEVELOPMENT, AND LAYOUT WERE COMPLETED IN 2023 ON SCHEDULE. THE BOOK WAS DELIVERED TO THE PRINTER IN JANUARY 2024, WITH A PUBLICATION DATE OF JUNE 1, 2024. (2) IN 2023 BRAIDED RIVER SUPPORTED THE WE ARE PUGET SOUND AND ORCA TRAVELING MUSEUM EXHIBITS, WHICH WERE VIEWED BY MORE THAN 40,000 PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY AT MAJOR CULTURAL AND MARINE SCIENCE CENTERS ACROSS WASHINGTON STATE, INCLUDING THE BURKE MUSEUM IN SEATTLE.

  Expenses $182,069

As filed on the 2022 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.

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.

• THE MOUNTAINEERS

  501(C)(3) · EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST · WA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

12 August 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202402279349303805

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