Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by NATIONAL WILDERNESS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,012,934
- Total expenses
- $998,126
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,012,934
- Grants paid
- $862,502
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $255,005
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $149,990
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $105,015
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $911,873
- Management and general expenses
- $67,649
- Fundraising expenses
- $18,604
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $911,873
Program services were 91.4% 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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1b · Membership dues
$11,127
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$988,909
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$12,898
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3 · Investment income
total $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $862,502 · program services $862,502
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $82,642 · program services $30,656 · management and general $35,349 · fundraising $16,637
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $6,374 · program services $2,537 · management and general $2,460 · fundraising $1,377
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $6,250 · management and general $6,250
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $1,303 · management and general $1,303
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $0
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14 · Information technology
total $16,003 · program services $10,622 · management and general $5,381
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $242 · program services $242
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17 · Travel
total $6,919 · program services $3,322 · management and general $3,589 · fundraising $8
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $877 · management and general $877
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24a · Other expenses: ACCRUED PTO
total $7,724 · management and general $7,724
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24b · Other expenses: REIMBURSED EXPENSES
total $3,000 · management and general $3,000
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24c · Other expenses: PRINTING
total $1,319 · program services $252 · management and general $602 · fundraising $465
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24d · Other expenses: SUPPLIES
total $1,218 · program services $620 · management and general $598
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24e · All other expenses
total $1,753 · program services $1,120 · management and general $516 · fundraising $117
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $77,190 · end of year $98,506
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $109,469 · end of year $156,499
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $93,915 · end of year $139,229
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $2,537 · end of year $10,761
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $86,249 · end of year $99,203
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $3,958 · end of year $5,812
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance supports stewardship organizations working within the National Wilderness Preservation System. We provide website resources, trainings, webinars, newsletters, produce the annual National Wilderness Workshop, and provide funding through challenge costs shares with the US Forest Service.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To grow and support a national network of wilderness and public land stewardship organizations to provide ongoing stewardship for America's wilderness areas.
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NWSA supports wilderness stewardship groups across the country with funding opportunities, mentoring, and assistance developing partnerships and working with land management agencies. NWSA's US Forest Service challenge cost share program helps organizations build capacity for public land stewardship.
Expenses $892,939 · Grants $998,908
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NWSA offers many on-line and digital resources, including tookits for stewardship organization start-up, sharing of best practices, grant writing, and actions affecting wilderness stewardship. NWSA curates a monthly wilderness newsletter and hosts webinars to connect and educate the wilderness stewardship community. We also offer small grants, sourced from endowment funds, to assist new wilderness stewardship groups with start-up costs.
Expenses $15,929
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NWSA co-hosts the annual National Wilderness Workshop, a national gathering of volunteers, stewardship groups, academics, and land management agency professionals to connect the wilderness stewardship community, share best practices, keep current with conservation science, learn from experts and each other, and develop scalable solutions to issues affecting wilderness management and stewardship.
Expenses $3,005
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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JOELLE MARIER
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $77,025
- From this org
- $73,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $3,525
- Hours/week
- 40
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MICHAEL SPLAIN
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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BOB RATCLIFFE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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IAN NELSON
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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BILL HODGE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JEFF RANDA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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ANN BAKER-EASLEY
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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KAITLIN DEVARONA
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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SIMON HEINBERG
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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$80,000
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$75,717
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$61,694
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$50,000
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$49,311
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$31,527
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$30,000
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$29,896
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$29,863
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
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$29,006
WILDERNESS AND TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 14 August 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202512269349302966
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