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← HEADWATERS AT THE COMAL

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by HEADWATERS AT THE COMAL.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,540,083
Total expenses
$1,718,071
Contributions and grants received
$2,468,597
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$23,526
Investment income
$47,960
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$2,571,888
Total liabilities, end of year
$179,117
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,392,771
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,421,335
Management and general expenses
$159,667
Fundraising expenses
$137,069
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,421,335

Program services were 82.7% 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.

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $667,603

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,800,994

  • 2a · Program service revenue: EDUCATION SERVICES

    total $23,526 · related or exempt $23,526

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $47,960 · excluded $47,960

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $240,997 · program services $98,809 · management and general $77,119 · fundraising $65,069

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $160,663 · program services $65,872 · management and general $51,412 · fundraising $43,379

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $23,725 · management and general $23,725

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,227,813 · program services $1,210,033 · fundraising $17,780

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $27,407 · program services $27,407

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,915 · management and general $1,915

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $5,891 · management and general $1,761 · fundraising $4,130

  • 17 · Travel

    total $16 · management and general $13 · fundraising $3

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $6,285 · program services $737 · management and general $3,108 · fundraising $2,440

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $968 · program services $397 · management and general $310 · fundraising $261

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM EVENTS

    total $18,423 · program services $16,060 · fundraising $2,363

  • 24b · Other expenses: VOLUNTEER TRAINING

    total $2,020 · program services $2,020

  • 24c · Other expenses: BANK SERVICE CHARGES

    total $1,910 · management and general $266 · fundraising $1,644

  • 24d · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $38 · management and general $38

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,410,524 · end of year $918,856

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $233,737

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $181,190 · end of year $234,561

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $874 · end of year $4,742

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $1,179,992

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $66,180 · end of year $174,163

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $5,615 · end of year $4,954

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $1,520,793 · end of year $2,392,771

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

STRENGTHENING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND NATURE BY SHOWCASING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMAL SPRINGS. PREMIER EDUCATION CENTER INSPIRING HEARTS AND MINDS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSERVATION TO COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF HEADWATERS AT THE COMAL IS TO STRENGTHEN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND NATURE BY SHOWCASING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMAL SPRINGS. CREATE A PREMIER EDUCATION CENTER INSPIRING HEARTS AND MINDS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSERVATION TO COMMUNITY. THIS IS ACHIEVED THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES.

  • PROGRAM SERVICES: HEADWATERS AT THE COMAL HOSTS A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF ALL AGES. TOPICS INCLUDE NATIVE PLANTS, ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER CONSERVATION, ARCHAEOLOGY, A CHILDREN'S SCIENCE SERIES, AND A WATERSHED EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DRY COMAL CREEK WATERSHED PROTECTION PLAN. HEADWATERS IS OPEN TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS FOR TOURS AND MEETINGS OR TO VISIT ON THEIR OWN AND LEARN THROUGH SELF-GUIDED TOUR INFORMATION AND INTERPRETIVE SIGNAGE. A TOTAL OF 3,483 PEOPLE VISITED HEADWATERS AT THE COMAL IN 2023 AND PARTICIPATED IN OVER 150 TOURS, EDUCATION PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY EVENTS AND SELF-GUIDED VISITS. THE GOAL OF OUR PROGRAMS IS TO INSPIRE HEARTS AND MINDS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSERVATION, CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL, TO THE GREATER COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $1,367,086 · Revenue $23,526

  • NATIVE PRAIRIE AND RIPARIAN RESTORATION: THE HEADWATERS HAS REMOVED ALMOST 4.5 ACRES OF ASPHALT AND IMPERVIOUS COVER AND REPLACED THAT AREA WITH NATIVE SOIL, HUNDREDS OF GRASSES, FORBS, AND TREES IN ORDER TO DIVERT WATER AWAY FROM THE HEADWATER SPRINGS OF THE COMAL RIVER AND FILTER THROUGH NATURAL STORM WATER MANAGEMENT OF BERMS, SWALES, CHECK DAMS AND VERNAL POOLS. CONTINUAL MAINTENANCE OF THE PRAIRIE AND RIPARIAN AREA ALONG SPRING RUN #4 OF THE COMAL RIVER IS NECESSARY TO CONTROL REINTRODUCTION OF INVASIVE SPECIES. IN ADDITION, CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAMS HELP TO MONITOR WATER QUALITY AND COLLECT DATA ON RE-INTRODUCTION OF BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES, FROGS, DRAGONFLIES, AND OTHER SPECIES ATTRACTED TO THE RESTORED AREA.

    Expenses $54,249

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ian Taylor

    VICE PRESIDENT (TERM 05/2023)

    Total calculated
    $399,138
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $320,816
    Other
    $78,322
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $288,236 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,132 related
    Other
    $0 + $31,448 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $60,007 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $18,315 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $399,138 related

  • Dawn Schriewer

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $308,080
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $238,935
    Other
    $69,145
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $210,138 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,132 related
    Other
    $0 + $27,665 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $44,514 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,631 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $308,080 related

  • Melissa Krause

    BOARD PRESIDENT (START 04/2023)

    Total calculated
    $262,239
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $211,815
    Other
    $50,424
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $207,444 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,132 related
    Other
    $0 + $3,239 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $38,596 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $11,828 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $262,239 related

  • Brent Lundmark

    BOARD MEMBER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $214,804
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $163,152
    Other
    $51,652
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $153,050 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,132 related
    Other
    $0 + $8,970 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $31,466 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $20,186 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $214,804 related

  • Shawn Schorn

    BOARD MEMBER AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $203,737
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $156,528
    Other
    $47,209
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $153,723 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,132 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,673 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,969 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $17,240 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $203,737 related

  • Judith Dykes-Hoffmann

    BOARD PRESIDENT (TERM 03/2023)

    Total calculated
    $1,200
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,200
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Leonard Dougal

    BOARD VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jordan Matney

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wayne Peters

    TRUSTEE (TERM 03/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Nancy Pappas

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $164,115
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $125,271
    Other
    $38,844
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $119,951 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,132 related
    Other
    $0 + $4,188 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $24,212 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $14,632 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $164,115 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3
ALL COMPENSATION IS PAID BY NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES, A RELATED ORGANIZATION. NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES USES THE FOLLOWING TO ESTABLISH COMPENSATION: - COMPENSATION SURVEY OR STUDY

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES

    UTILITY COMPANY · TX

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
4 September 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202442489349301329

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