Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$149,209

Total expenses

$90,401

Contributions and grants received

$149,209

Grants paid

$83,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$249,933

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$249,933

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$83,250

Management and general expenses

$7,151

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$83,250

Program services were 92.1% 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

• Clean and Sustainable Energy Project: clean energy and efficiency education and outreach and monitoring of current landscape for dirtier fossil fuel options. This year we emphasized transportation and efficiency in addition to utility-level work. Help public connect to resources on how to engage with merchant solar companies. With partners, educate the public on best practices for obtaining solar and energy storage systems including low-income households and focusing on developing energy democracy best practices. Educate the public on transportation related energy issues. Educate the public on health issues regarding fossil fuel usage. Publish solar energy guides for public education. Track merchant solar activity. Serve as a resource for merchant solar companies, farmers, landowners, neighbors, and anyone with questions about merchant solar facilities in Kentucky.

  Expenses $32,000 · Grants $27,000

• Climate Plan Education: Build and maintain a climate action web site. Revise and distribute the booklet "Key Steps to Climate Action" guide. Educate the public on current climate change impacts in Kentucky. Educate the public on opportunities through Solarize Projects as new localities are added. Network with other local Climate Action groups and partner on projects as appropriate, amplifying their climate messaging. Inform the public of opportunities through Federal initiatives and tax benefits. Help build a toolkit for the US Climate Action Network actions in partnership with other USCAN members. Educate the public of the impacts of cryptocurrency mining on energy usage.

  Expenses $13,000 · Grants $13,000

• Infrastructure, Toxics and Waste: Support frontline communities engaging in the impacts of fossil fuel related infrastructure for just energy solutions while delaying the emerging new gas/fossil markets and waste projects that perpetuate the use of fossil fuels and plastics. Help communities make informed choices that improve their health, and their property rights. Educate the public on issues that hinder citizen's rights to protest toxic infrastructure, and to retire old infrastructure. Maintain the kybeyondfossilfuels.org website and Facebook pages. Educate the public and land rights, the Bernheim pipeline project, environmental issues with abandoned gas well and coal mines. Educate the public an the health impacts of waste streams including the impacts of PFAS chemicals.

  Expenses $15,000 · Grants $15,000

• Biodiversity Education: Promotion of information and awareness of Kentucky's rare and threatened plants and animals, to conserve what is native and threatened. Educate visitors to the Louisville Zoo, at Earth Day events, at Perryville's Springfest, Lexington's Greenfest, and Louisville's Earth Walk on biodiversity. Promote wildlife corridors and habitat connectivity. Participate in the Pollinators Stakeholder group.

  Expenses $6,000 · Grants $6,000

• Non-partisan vote engagement involving texting and social media GOTV efforts around the mid-term elections. Target voters were members of Kentucky Rural Electric Co-ops.

  Expenses $5,000 · Grants $5,000

• Land Conservation and Stewardship: Support outdoor recreation initiatives to build a constituent base for land preservation. Work to preserve contiguous lands for wildlife corridors. Educate the public on climate resilience. Distribute information on Federal funding for land conservation. Use social media and in-person events to educate stakeholders. Collect research on the economic impact of outdoor recreation. Coordinate with other land conservation organizations on projects related to this work.

  Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000

• Culture and Heritage Project: Use of arts to advance our mission to the public and gain awareness of our organization. This includes the Wild and Scenic Film Festival and our Kentucky Voices evening.

  Expenses $2,250 · Grants $2,000

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

• Kentucky Conservation Committee

  $78,000

  Conservation and Education

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

1 May 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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