Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$1,256,210

Total expenses

$722,849

Contributions and grants received

$1,226,662

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$20,412

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$9,136

Total assets, end of year

$1,305,837

Total liabilities, end of year

-$3,589

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,309,426

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$656,110

Management and general expenses

$63,269

Fundraising expenses

$3,470

Program service expenses (Part III)

$656,110

Program services were 90.8% 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

• After a lull due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, WAWA began to welcome visitors back to the Outdoor Activity Center (OAC). WAWA increased its nature-based camp,O-Academy, from 4 to 8 weekly sessions in the summer, reinstated its Great American Campout to engage youth and families in a special overnight camping experience; engaged over 500 volunteers in nearly 1,600 hours of service to maintain the trails, remove invasive species,and care for the food and wildlife gardens; distributed 312 bags of fresh produce to Southwest Atlanta families; facilitated over 530 hours of outdoor programs; led 1,314 miles of hiking trails; and engaged over 1,845 families.

  Expenses $212,690 · Revenue $22,572

• WAWA took over Thrive Outside Atlanta, a collaborative initiative of environmental non-profit organizations to engage youth from underserved communities in experiences in the outdoors. WAWA supported nearly 700 Metro Atlanta youth from Boys and Girls Clubs, Boys Clubs and City of Atlanta Camp Best Friends sites in engaging in nature-based learning opportunities at several sites (City of Atlanta parks and outdoor spaces, the Outdoor Activity Center, Chattahoochee Nature Center, Nantahala Outdoor Center, and Chattahoochee Riverkeepers Floating Classroom on West Point Lake).

  Expenses $89,274

• In collaboration with the Cascade Springs Nature Conservancy and the Pi Alpha Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., WAWA restored and began to better protect the water quality of a natural spring at the Cascade Springs Nature Preserve adjacent to the preserve's iconic waterfall; increased safety and walkability at the preserve by repairing a boardwalk and establishing a stone walkway/stairs on the path to the waterfall; and led a frog pond restoration project in this heavily visited and used greenspace in the City of Atlanta.

  Expenses $25,000

• Provided land and water stewardship of publicly forested greenspaces in Southwest Atlanta and waterways in Northwest and Southwest Atlanta through water quality monitoring, trail maintenance, creek clean-up activities, and invasive plant removal. Delivered watershed-based environmental training programs to community residents, conducted community-engaged research on urban heat islands and heat resilience, and facilitated energy audits for residents in energy burdened neighborhoods.

  Expenses $329,146

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.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

6 May 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202341309349304949

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