Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$150,785

Total expenses

$313,901

Contributions and grants received

$137,143

Grants paid

$89,527

Program service revenue

$5,720

Investment income

$7,922

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$446,438

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$446,438

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$272,963

Management and general expenses

$25,670

Fundraising expenses

$15,268

Program service expenses (Part III)

$272,963

Program services were 87.0% 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 · 2023

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $94,243 · Grants $10,177

• Fostering a Sustainable Local Food System and Encouraging Waste Prevention: The Food Action Team sustained It's On Us (IOU) Corvallis, feeding people in need of a meal at local restaurants. They continued to partner with a mobile payment app (Kuto) to provide electronic gift cards for use at participating restaurants, making it easier for customers to order meals and to save restaurants significantly on credit card fees. The program also teamed up with the Corvallis Farmers' Market to distribute $20,000 in ARPA funds, supporting local farmers by enabling recipients of Farmers' Market currency to purchase Farmers' Market items of their choice. In addition, the team partnered with Corvallis-Benton County Public Library to create a new Public Seed Library stocked with commercial seed packets. Over 1,500 new and partially used seed packets were donated and distributed. Seven free lectures and 6 pop-up Vegetable Garden Plant Clinics were sponsored in collaboration with Benton County OSU Extension and Master Gardeners. Also, the team distributed nearly 1,000 copies of the 2023 Corvallis Garden Resource Guide and organized an Edible Garden Tour that attracted hundreds of attendees. Their Neighborhood Planters Kiosks, located at 33 residential and public sites, displayed weekly posters to support gardening and neighborhood connections. And, in partnership with Corvallis-Benton County Public Library and Corvallis Community Center, the Food Action Team sponsored a second successful year of "Cooks and Books", pairing library cookbooks with the talents of local chefs and showcasing a variety of ethnic cuisines. The No Food Left Behind program of the Waste Prevention Action Team introduced a new interactive game, Food Waste Prevention Bingo, and distributed thousands of "Smart Strategies" in English and Spanish, teaching how and why to prevent wasted food at home. They also distributed 100 countertop composting pails to make sure inedible food scraps make it from kitchen-to-compost instead of from lunch-to-landfill. The Recycling Block Captains program distributed three separate handouts, educating their neighbors about contamination at the curb, creating less trash, and electronic waste. The team continued to offer both print and online versions of the popular ReUse Directory and concluded the Benton To Go pilot project at nine participating restaurants, enabling customers to use reusable takeout containers and restaurants to cut costs.

  Expenses $91,869 · Grants $500

• Community Outreach, Engaging Volunteers, and Creating an Inclusive Community: As a network of almost 400 partner organizations (businesses, nonprofit organizations, faith communities, educational institutions, and local government units) and hundreds of individual volunteers, the Coalition provided grassroots leadership, inspiration, resources, and opportunities for collaboration in working on sustainability issues. The Coalition encouraged community involvement and interaction by inviting the entire community to its annual and quarterly meetings, where attendees had the opportunity to network and share information about sustainability issues, and numerous presenters among the partner organizations and 12 action teams presented their sustainability accomplishments. The monthly Sustainability Events Calendar also provided opportunities for community members to learn about our partners' activities. In March 2023 the Coalition hosted its annual Sustainability Fair and Town Hall event to continue highlighting the sustainability efforts of the community with the "Community Scrapbook" slide show, and to prompt discussions among the participants in small groups on local sustainability topics. The Sustainability Fair featured local food and musicians, and about 40 hands-on sustainability exhibits. The featured speakers at the Town Hall event were local climate action activists, and a highlight of the program was the launch of a new initiative to help the community become more energy secure. The Coalition also seeks to create an inclusive community. One way to accomplish that is through the Neighborhood Roots program, which completed its second year of increasing shade equity by planting native trees on private properties. Volunteers identified a prospective neighborhood, reached out to residents in the summer, and held a planting party in the fall. Also, the Coalition co-sponsored the 7th annual Champinefu Series, designed to inspire the Corvallis community to acknowledge, understand, and collaborate with the Kalapuya culture. The three-session series included an evening of winter storytelling, during which 440 attendees heard indigenous stories of place in both English and Kalapuyan languages. The Coalition's Steering Committee continues to implement an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Framework by including discussion of EDI resources as part of their monthly meetings. In addition to the $49,841 of cash expenditures for community outreach, engaging volunteers, and creating an inclusive community, a facility rental valued at $5,400 was donated for the Sustainability Fair and Town Hall event.

  Expenses $49,841

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $37,010 · Grants $16,000

As filed on the 2023 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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

• First Alternative Natural Foods Cooperative

  $16,000

  Partnering with the Oregon Clean Power Co-op and with support from local donors and community investors, the Sustainability Coalition is helping Corvallis make the transition to renewable energy. Each Solarize Corvallis project helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while saving the host organizations significant costs on their monthly electric bills. In 2023 three projects were completed (installation of solar panels at Franklin K-8 School, Cheldelin Middle School, and the Benton County Historical Society) and the Coalition awarded a $16,000 grant to First Alternative Natural Foods Cooperative for the installation of solar panels. These projects help advance the Coalition's charitable purpose of promoting an ecologically, economically, and socially healthy city and county through democratic decision-making processes consistent with the Coalition's guiding objectives, one of which is to reduce and ultimately eliminate our community's dependence on fossil fuels.

• City of Corvallis

  $10,177

  The Transportation Action Team, which is working to make Corvallis more livable by promoting walking, biking and use of public transit, co-sponsored the 5th annual Open Streets with the City of Corvallis. The event featured a mile of walkable, bikeable streets for people to explore neighborhoods around Corvallis and fun activities for people of all ages such as live music, dance, games and fitness activities.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

30 October 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

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