Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$692,487

Total expenses

$174,199

Contributions and grants received

$692,487

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,053,367

Total liabilities, end of year

$7,002

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,046,365

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$122,983

Management and general expenses

$39,890

Fundraising expenses

$11,326

Program service expenses (Part III)

$122,983

Program services were 70.6% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• THE LAND RETURN PROGRAM SERVES THE WABANAKI COMMUNITY BY FACILITATING PROPERTY TRANSFERS BACK TO THE WABANAKI NATIONS AND/OR COMMUNITY, WHICH OCCUR SOMETIMES AS DIRECT TRANSFERS TO BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST, AND OTHER TIMES AS REDIRECTED TRANSFERS TO THE TRIBAL NATIONS THEMSELVES. IN LIEU OF A PROPERTY TRANSFER, BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST OCCASIONALLY FACILITATES LAND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS WITH LANDHOLDERS. SUCCESSFUL TRANSFERS HAVE INCLUDED THREE PROPERTIES IN WABANAKI TERRITORY. SUCCESSFUL LAND USE AGREEMENTS INCLUDE OUR PLANTING GROUNDS WHERE OUR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PROGRAM OPERATES ON THE SANDY RIVER.

  Expenses $43,072

• THE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PROGRAM SAW DOZENS OF VOLUNTEERS AND SEVERAL COMMUNITY PLANTING DAYS THROUGHOUT THE WARM SEASON. THE PROGRAM PRODUCED ENOUGH CORN TO HAND OUT FREE CORNMEAL TO THE COMMUNITIES AT SEVERAL COMMUNITY GATHERINGS THROUGHOUT 2023 AND INTO THE SPRING. OTHER CROPS WERE DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO NEED.

  Expenses $41,564

• THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION PROGRAM BROUGHT THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER REPEATEDLY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR INCLUDING TWO OUTDOOR WORKSHOPS, A CULTURAL EXCHANGE EVENT THAT BROUGHT TOGETHER OVER 150 ATTENDEES AND TEACHINGS, TWO SEASONAL CEREMONIES THAT BROUGHT TOGETHER DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS AND WABANAKI COMMUNITIES, AND MULTIPLE DIPLOMATIC GATHERINGS AMONG COMMUNITY LEADERS.

  Expenses $26,290

• EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM: EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS AT SKOWHEGAN HISTORY HOUSE, PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATIONS TO THE WABANAKI COMMISSION ON LAND AND STEWARDSHIP, EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS TO THE FIRST LIGHT LEARNING JOURNEY COHORT, ONLINE EDUCATION FOR GRANTORS, PARTICIPATION IN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GREATER PUBLIC AND THE WABANAKI COMMUNITY FOR FACILITATING BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WABANAKI HISTORY.

  Expenses $12,057

As filed on the 2023 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

2023

Filed

15 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202433219349300623

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