Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$457,260

Total expenses

$483,748

Contributions and grants received

$292,085

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$158,656

Investment income

$3,519

Other revenue

$3,000

Total assets, end of year

$522,153

Total liabilities, end of year

$15,740

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$506,413

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$382,426

Management and general expenses

$93,543

Fundraising expenses

$7,779

Program service expenses (Part III)

$382,426

Program services were 79.1% 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

• LIVING RIVER - THIS BOOK AND VISUAL CAMPAIGN RELEASED IN APRIL 2023 HAS BEEN EDUCATING ABOUT THE IMPREILED COLORADO RIVER WATERSHED. IN 2024, THE AUTHOR DAVE SHOWALTER HAS PRESENTED AT 15 IN PERSON AND DIGITAL EVENTS AS PART OF THE LIVING RIVER EVENTS SERIES, REACHING A TOTAL OF 4,435 PEOPLE IN PERSON IN COLORADO, ARIZONA, NEVADA, UTAH, WYOMING, NEW MEXICO, AND CALIFORNIA. THE LARGEST IN PERSON SPEAKING EVENT WAS A 60 PERSON GROUP AT THE UTAH DINE BIKEYAH SUMMER GATHERING AT THE KIGALIA GUARD STATION CAMPGROUND IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UTAH DINE BIKYAH. THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN A LARGE SUCCESS, WITH A CONSERVATIVE TEN MILLION IMPRESSIONS, REACHING ACROSS THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKETS IN PRINT AND RADIO INTERVIEWS. THE BOOK HAD NATIONAL AUDIENCE REACH IN THE NATURAL HISTORY AND LITERARY SPACE, WITH PROMINENT FEATURES IN NBC AND AFFILIATE STATIONS, ORION, AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. LIVING RIVER WAS AWARDED THE INDEPENDENT BOOK AWARD FOR U.S. WEST-MOUNTAIN BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION, AND ALSO AWARDED THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD AND WAS A HIGH PLAINS BOOKAWARDS FINALIST.

  Expenses $150,471

• AMERICA'S ARCTIC - BRAIDED RIVER IS A MEDIA PARTNER ALONGSIDE A COALITION OF NATIONAL CONSERVATION AND INDIGENOUS NONPROFITS SUPPORTING SCIENCE AND CULTURAL EDUCATION AROUND THE ALASKAN ARCTIC. IN PARTICULAR, THE WESTERN ARCTIC AND THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE HAVE BEEN A SPECIAL FOCUS. THROUGH MEDIA CAMPAIGNS, LEGISLATIVE ACTION, AND SUPPORT FOR GROUP TRIPS TO AMERICA'S ARCTIC, BRAIDED RIVER HAS BEEN SPREADING EDUCATION ABOUT PROTECTING THE ARCTIC. BRAIDED RIVER ADDITIONALLY WORKED CLOSELY WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER FLORIAN SCHULTZON FIELD WORK SURROUNDING PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM OF SOME OF THE MOST REMOTE PLACES OF THE ARCTIC. WE ARE CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THE IMPACT CAMPAIGN FOR AN EDUCATIONAL GIANT SCREEN FILM CALLED THE ARCTIC: OUR LAST GREAT WILDERNESS. THE FILM HAS BEEN SHOWN TO DATE AT MORE THAN 20 THEATERS AT MAJOR SCIENCE CENTERS, FOR MORE THAN 10,000 PEOPLE, INCLUDING SEVERAL THOUSAND SCHOOL GROUPS, AND EDUCATORS. WE HAVE ALSO SUPPORTED FILM AND STORYTELLING EFFORTS DIGITALLY, ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB PLATFORM CALLED PROTECT THE ARCTIC, WHICH HAS MORE THAN 58,000 FOLLOWERS.

  Expenses $135,231 · Revenue $158,656

• COLUMBIA RIVER - THIS BOOK AND VISUAL STORYTELLING CAMPAIGN RELEASED ON MAY 22ND OF 2024 HAS BEEN EDUCATING ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL AND COMPLICATED COLUMBIA RIVER SYSTEM AND ITS EXPANSIVE WATERSHED FROM SEA TO SOURCE. TO DATE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID MOSKOWITZ AND THE AUTHOR EILEEN DELEHANTY PEARKES HAVE PRESENTED TO 11 IN PERSON EVENTS AS PART OF THE BIG RIVER EVENT SERIES REACHING A TOTAL OF 450 PEOPLE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THE LARGEST IN PERSON SPEAKING EVENT WAS 115-PERSON AUDIENCE AT THE OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (OMSI) IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 350 PDX, COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER, AND SAVE OUR WILD SALMON. THE TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN A GREAT SUCCESS, REACHING ACROSS NORTH AMERICA AND WESTERN CANADA MARKETS IN PRINT AND SOCIAL MEDIA. BIG RIVER IS A FOREWARDS INDIES FINALIST FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR.

  Expenses $82,881

• OTHER PROGRAMS - (1) IN 2024, BRAIDED RIVER SUPPORTED THE WE ARE PUGET SOUND TRAVELING MUSEUM TRAVELING EVENTS, WHICH WERE VIEWED BY MORE THAN 40,000 PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY. (2) BOOK DEVELOPMENT OF WOODPECKER: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF NORTH AMERICAN WOODPECKERS - A PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AND CAMPAIGN ON ALL 41 SPECIES OF WOODPECKERS IN NORTH AMERICA. THE BOOKS FIELDWORK, EDITORIAL DEVELOPMENT, AND LAYOUT WERE COMPLETED IN 2024, WITH A PUBLICATION DATE OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2025.

  Expenses $13,843

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.

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.

• THE MOUNTAINEERS

  501(C)(3) · EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST · WA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

13 August 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202502259349302840

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