Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,182,481
- Total expenses
- $1,792,148
- Contributions and grants received
- $2,854,915
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $212,350
- Investment income
- $75,496
- Other revenue
- $39,720
- Total assets, end of year
- $6,106,250
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $112,286
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $5,993,964
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,479,518
- Management and general expenses
- $169,372
- Fundraising expenses
- $143,258
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,479,518
Program services were 82.6% 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.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$354,181
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1c · Fundraising events
$11,258
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$2,489,476
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$28,837
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2a · Program service revenue: Consulting
total $7,750 · related or exempt $7,750 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Building Share
total $40,360 · related or exempt $40,360 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2c · Program service revenue: Reimbursements
total $164,240 · related or exempt $164,240 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $79,253 · related or exempt $79,253 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6a · Gross rents
real property $1,875 · personal property $0
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6b · Less rental expenses
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $1,875 · personal property $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $1,875 · related or exempt $1,875 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $95,099 · other assets $800
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $97,906 · other assets $1,750
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7c · Gain or loss
securities -$2,807 · other assets -$950
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7d · Net gain or loss
total -$3,757 · related or exempt -$3,757 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$38,508
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$11,228
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$923
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $37,585 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $37,585
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9a · Gaming: gross income
$0
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9b · Gaming: direct expenses
$0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$1,518
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$1,573
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total -$55 · related or exempt -$55 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11a · Other revenue: Misc Income
total $315 · related or exempt $315 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$315
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $82,270 · program services $69,144 · management and general $8,000 · fundraising $5,126
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $997,171 · program services $838,072 · management and general $96,971 · fundraising $62,128
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $45,502 · program services $38,242 · management and general $4,425 · fundraising $2,835
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $74,495 · program services $62,610 · management and general $7,244 · fundraising $4,641
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $80,884 · program services $67,979 · management and general $7,866 · fundraising $5,039
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $147 · program services $147 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $10,100 · program services $0 · management and general $10,100 · fundraising $0
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0 · fundraising $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $79,673 · program services $52,879 · management and general $499 · fundraising $26,295
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $24,824 · program services $20,805 · management and general $4,019 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $116,364 · program services $88,770 · management and general $7,244 · fundraising $20,350
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14 · Information technology
total $20,535 · program services $17,435 · management and general $1,890 · fundraising $1,210
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15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $94,595 · program services $82,341 · management and general $7,469 · fundraising $4,785
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17 · Travel
total $47,012 · program services $45,948 · management and general $0 · fundraising $1,064
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $52,798 · program services $41,275 · management and general $4,467 · fundraising $7,056
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20 · Interest
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $29,831 · program services $25,150 · management and general $2,853 · fundraising $1,828
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23 · Insurance
total $6,123 · program services $0 · management and general $6,123 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: Public Outreach Expenses
total $14,103 · program services $13,331 · management and general $0 · fundraising $772
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24b · Other expenses: Hospitality
total $1,829 · program services $1,537 · management and general $178 · fundraising $114
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24c · Other expenses: Contributions
total $247 · program services $208 · management and general $24 · fundraising $15
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24d · Other expenses: Lobbying
total $13,645 · program services $13,645 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $207,268 · end of year $232,753
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $2,515,420 · end of year $2,203,290
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $9,355 · end of year $8,661
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $11,858 · end of year $21,604
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$976,927
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$499,550
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $500,707 · end of year $477,377
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $1,355,696 · end of year $3,162,565
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $37,150 · end of year $31,496
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $67,741 · end of year $80,790
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $3,985,846 · end of year $5,482,136
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $509,567 · end of year $511,828
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
Northern Plains believes people working together can make a difference. Our mission is to organize Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes; support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy in farm and ranch country and in our towns; and build strong grassroots leaders, always considering the next generation.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Northern Plains Resource Council organizes Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes; support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy; and build strong grassroots leaders, always considering the next generation.
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Clean Energy: We elevated the voices of Montanans impacted by Montana-Dakota Utilities' proposed 19.2% increase and reduced the final increase to 9.1% which saved Eastern Montanans over $4.5M. We worked with the Montana Facilities Finance Authority to bring the total number of counties adopting CPACE to 12 and helped another five counties start the process. In conjunction with our affiliates, our Solarize campaigns have helped 300 residences in Montana through solar assessments which resulted in over 120 installations and increased the total solar installed through our efforts to over 700kw. We recruited, trained, and supported two candidates for rural electric co-op boards. Our work kept one co-op from effectively ending net metering and helped another raise its cap on installation size and adopt a more consumer-friendly true-up policy. Finally, we coordinated powerful member testimony at climate policy listening sessions hosted by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and stood up for DEQ's authority to reject permits that infringe upon our constitutionally-protected right to a clean and healthful environment.
Expenses $339,864
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Oil & Gas: We amplified the voices of concerned Laurel community members to combat NorthWestern Energy's methane-fired power plant on the banks of the Yellowstone River. We generated an outpouring of letters to the editor in opposition to the zoning changes required for the plant to become operational and we flooded the Montana DEQ with hundreds of comments about the plant's dangerous pollution during the public comment period. We conducted a canvass in Laurel to provide information about the proposed plant and learn more about community concerns and attitudes toward the plan, then organized people to push the Laurel City/County Planning Board to reject efforts to rezone the land where the plant was built. We also continued our efforts to stop air pollution from orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells in Montana. We helped the state secure $25M in federal funding to plug identified orphaned wells across the state, roughly half of which were completed in 2023 and the rest should be complete by fall of 2024. We oversaw the finalization of the EPA's Methane Rule which aimed to cut 80% of methane emissions from oil and gas development over the next 15 years.
Expenses $230,936
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Coal Transition: We petitioned the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement to investigate Signal Peak Energy's ongoing violations, finances, and legality of cancelling long-held grazing leases near the longwall mine they operate in the Bull Mountains. We filed a formal complaint against Signal Peak with the Montana DEQ requesting investigation into the company's ongoing violations and, following inaction, we requested the DEQ revoke Signal Peak Energy's mining permit. We expanded our membership base in the Bull Mountains and developed a strategy to ensure area ranchers and communities are well-informed and can plan around the mine's activities, trajectory, and timeframe.
Expenses $209,670
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Agriculture: We organized ranches and key stakeholders to support rulemaking related to the Packers and Stockyards Act and the American Beef Labeling Act, requiring country-of-origin labeling (COOL) at the federal level. We expanded the audience of those who care about agricultural issues and united ranchers, consumers, and conservationists around livestock and COOL reform. We hosted the 8th annual Montana Local Food Challenge in August, including an event in Glendive with our affiliate group, Dawson Resource Council. Healthy Soils: We passed a joint resolution during the 2023 legislative session establishing a Montana Soil Health Week and Day. The inaugural Soil Health Week will take place the first week of April 2024. We hosted two Soil Crawl events and one virtual gathering that covered soil health tools and principles such as rotational grazing, soil tests and amendments, invasive species management, cover crops, and more. Good Neighbor Agreement: We pushed back on mine expansion activities, ensuring traffic safety and minimizing the mine's footprint wherever possible in the Stillwater and Boulder valleys. As a result of GNA member involvement and technical advisor input, the Stillwater mine has implemented state-of-the-art, satellite-linked survey equipment to measure ground movement and groundwater pore pressure changes for the Stillwater mine tailing and storage facilities. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Northern Plains worked closely with Western Native Voice and several other organizations to organize a showing of Murder in the Bighorn, a docuseries from Showtime about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis. Roughly 300 people attended the screening and the discussion panel featuring Blackfeet Nation filmmakers Ivy and Ivan MacDonald and family members of the victims. We supported and collaborated with Western Native Voice as they lead Indigenous Peoples Day activities and celebrations. We continued our Lessons from Indigenous Organizing series with Native American speakers who are doing powerful organizing work across the state. Protecting Montana's Constitution: We mobilized thousands of Montanans on the Montana Constitution as several proposals came up at the Montana legislature. While there were 69 proposed amendments to the constitution, ZERO passed. We organized a rally, "We the People: A Rally for the Montana Constitution" that brought together Montanans from all walks of life to tell the state legislature that our constitution should stand to protect our rights as currently written.
Expenses $699,048
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Margaret Gordon
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $84,115
- From this org
- $84,115
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
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Jeanie Alderson
At-Large Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Kristin Aus
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Steve Charter
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Jeff Dibenedetto
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Charlie French
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Kristine Glenn
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Barbara Gulick
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Scott Hancock
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Linda Iverson
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
George Kelly
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ita Kileen
At Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jasmine Krotkov
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Clint McRae
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Peter Mickelsen
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jane Moses
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kirk Panasuk
At Large Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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June Peterson
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ellen Pfister
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rae Peppers
At-Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ken Siroky
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John Smith
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Barbara Ulrich O'Grady
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Nathan Varley
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Eleanor Wend
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Gordon Whirry
Affiliate Representative
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Edward Barta
Chair of the Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Norane Freistadt
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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John Brown
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Sue Beug
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Roxa Reller
Assistant Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Craig McClure
Assistant Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Joan Kresich
Past Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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 May 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.0
- Source object
- 202441369349303994
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