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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2022 , filed 14 February 2024. matched by us Only the Part I totals and the names listed in Part VII are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue
$140,889 changed to $869,155
Total expenses
$363,553 changed to $605,406
Contributions and grants received
$134,568 changed to $869,155
Grants paid
$281,970 changed to $0
Investment income
$6,321 changed to $0
Total assets, end of year
$0 changed to $283,964
Total liabilities, end of year
$0 changed to $10,867
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$0 changed to $273,097
Program services expenses
$337,738 changed to $430,480
Management and general expenses
$17,957 changed to $131,004
Fundraising expenses
$7,858 changed to $43,922
Program service expenses (Part III)
$337,738 changed to $430,480

Listed only on the earlier return

  • Carolina Ramos
  • Juliana Repp
  • Nazune Menka
  • Pat Handlin
  • Rachel Lederman

Listed only on the later return

  • Carolina Martin Ramos
  • Michelle Cook
  • Natali Segovia
  • Patricia Handlin

Listed under a different title

  • Daniel T'Seleie: DIRECTOR then BOARD MEMBER
  • King Downing: DIRECTOR then BOARD MEMBER

Totals

Total revenue
$140,889
Total expenses
$363,553
Contributions and grants received
$134,568
Grants paid
$281,970
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$6,321
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$0
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$0
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$337,738
Management and general expenses
$17,957
Fundraising expenses
$7,858
Program service expenses (Part III)
$337,738

Program services were 92.9% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $123,469

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $11,099

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $6,321 · excluded $6,321

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $281,970 · program services $281,970

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $28,120 · program services $19,450 · management and general $6,086 · fundraising $2,584

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $21,563 · program services $19,125 · management and general $813 · fundraising $1,625

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $4,095 · program services $3,833 · management and general $166 · fundraising $96

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $3,836 · program services $3,214 · management and general $376 · fundraising $246

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $8,359 · management and general $8,359

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $3,655 · program services $705 · fundraising $2,950

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,226 · program services $1,923 · management and general $234 · fundraising $69

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $1,998 · program services $1,128 · management and general $582 · fundraising $288

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $1,178 · management and general $1,178

  • 17 · Travel

    total $4,263 · program services $4,263

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $725 · program services $725

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $155 · management and general $155

  • 24a · Other expenses: LEGAL PROGRAM EXPENSE

    total $1,402 · program services $1,402

  • 24b · Other expenses: BOOKS AND SUBSCRIPTION

    total $8 · management and general $8

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $237,173

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $2,824

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $1,000

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $18,333

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $222,664

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

PROVIDING LEGAL SUPPORT, ADVOCACY, AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING FOR INDIGENOUS CENTERED AND QUIDED ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENTS. WE ENVISION A WORLD WHERE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ARE CENTERED AND GUIDING THE WORLD TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDING LEGAL SUPPORT, ADVOCACY, AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING FOR INDIGENOUS CENTERED AND GUIDED ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENTS.

  • WPLC INITIALLY SERVED AS THE ON-THE-GROUND LEGAL TEAM FOR THE INDIGENOUS- LED RESISTANCE TO THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINA (DAPL) AT STANDING ROCK, NORTH DAKOTA. SINCE THAT TIME WE HAVE PROVIDED LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN CRIMINAL AND CIVIL CASES, LEGAL EDUCATION AND OTHER LEGAL SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY TO THE WATER PROTECTOR MOVEMENT UTLITIZING STAFF AND VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICE WORKERS AND ATTORNEYS ALL OVER TURTLE ISLAND. OUR CRIMINAL DEFENSE PROGRAM WORK INCLUDES LEGAL EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, JAIL SUPPORT, CASE COORDINATION AND CRIMINAL DEFENSE REPRESENTATION. OUR CIVIL RIGHT PROGRAM WORK INCLUDES EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, OUTREACH AND CIVIL LEGAL REPESENTATION TO THOSE HARMED OR AT RISK OF HARM BY EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE AND OTHER MISCONDUCT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS AND IN DEFENSE OF INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND SACRED SITES. WPLC ALSO ENGAGES WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS ON BEHALF OF INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.

    Expenses $337,738 · Grants $281,970

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • King Downing

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pat Handlin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Lederman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Nazune Menka

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Carolina Ramos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Juliana Repp

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Daniel T'Seleie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Knopp

    FINANCE DIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

4 distributions to recipients named as people, $315,151 in total. Counted where the filer named the recipient as a person, as filed. Who received them, and what, are not published.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
15 April 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202331049349300848

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