Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$857,389

Total expenses

$1,036,096

Contributions and grants received

$835,264

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,474

Other revenue

$20,651

Total assets, end of year

$899,872

Total liabilities, end of year

$52,685

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$847,187

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$780,641

Management and general expenses

$101,019

Fundraising expenses

$154,436

Program service expenses (Part III)

$780,641

Program services were 75.3% 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 · 2023

• Rogue Riverkeeper: Our Rogue Riverkeeper program downsized in 2023, as long-standing grantors and foundations pulled back support following the completion of our campaign on Jordan Cove LNG. However, our personnel still managed to advocate for, and support, measures that promote clean water and fish habitat. Rogue Riverkeeper worked with community members to officially name and protect Blue Heron Creek in Phoenix. We also sought and received protection for a springs complex in the same area that would have been paved and built upon. The unhoused population living along riparian areasespecially along Bear Creek continues to be a challenge that crosses jurisdictions and authorities. As a small non-profit organization, Rogue Riverkeeper participated in collaboratives like the Bear Creek Restoration Initiative where partners including Jackson County and other city representatives work to protect the ecological function of Bear Creek and its riparian area while supporting humane and safe conditions for all community members. We helped pass the Living with Beaver bill that will help private landowners improve waterways and wetlands in the state. Jet boats on the Upper Rogue remained a challenge.

  Expenses $218,785

• ForestWatch Program: Thousands of supporters spoke up over the course of the year to weigh in on local timber sales and other projects. With the help of litigation partners, conservation allies, and local community members, our efforts to protect wildlife and forests: Protected and retained old-growth forests surrounding Lake of the Woods on the Fremont-Winema National Forest. Filed a legal challenge to the Medford District BLMs plan to accelerate old-growth logging in the Late Successional Reserve land use allocation. Prevented logging the Late Mungers and Penn Butte old-growth timber sales above the community of Williams. Oregon. Thwarted salvage logging clearcutting and road construction on steep-erosive decomposed granitic slopes in the headwaters of the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest. Convinced the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to drop or modify hundreds of acres of logging that would have removed late-successional Northern spotted owl habitat. Achieved in the modification, improvement or cancelation of numerous projects across the region. Prevailed in litigation to protect Oregon spotted frog fens and wetlands from grazing near the community of Chemult.

  Expenses $226,152

• Climate Program: KS Wild worked extensively on two national rulemaking efforts to advance protections for old growth and mature forests. The National Old Growth Amendment and Northwest Forest Plan amendment are efforts to change some of the underlying guidelines for how our public forests are managed. KS Wild members submitted over 1,000 comments (adding to the 500,000 comments nationwide) to the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior advocating for durable protections for mature and old-growth forests. We also hosted our 2nd annual Forest Defender Training Series, with more than 100 community members submitting several hundred personal emails and postcards to elected leaders.

  Expenses $210,781

• ALL OTHER CONSERVATION PROGRAMS & OUTREACH

  Expenses $124,923

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

• SHANNON CLERY

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• LAUREL SUTHERLIN

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• MICHAEL DOTSON

  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $91,000

  From this org

  $91,000

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $0

  Hours/week

  40

• TRACY HARDING

  TREASURER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• LESLEY ADAMS

  SECRETARY

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JEFF SCROGGIN

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• MANUEL DE AQUINO

  PRESIDENT

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JUAN PABLO SAN EMETERIO

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• MAUD POWELL

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

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

15 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

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