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EARTH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

EIN 26-1204422 PHOENIX, AZ

Revenue 2023
$1,205,131
Expenses 2023
$1,059,107

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B990
Classification
1000
Street
555 N CENTRAL AVENUE SUITE 402P ASU

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

ENVIRONMENT AND EDUCATIONAL FILMS - THE CARBON NATION DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES AND NATIONAL TOUR BEGAN IN 2010 WITH 1500 SHOWINGS ON THE POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO THE DAMAGING EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

  • EARTH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CONTINUES THE PRODUCTION AND RELEASE OF SERIES OF SHORT FILMS ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, CARBON MITIGATION AND SOIL HEALTH. SHORT FILM, USED AS COMMUNICATION TOOLS, ARE SCREENED AND PRESENTED AT FILM FESTIVALS, CONFERENCES, CORPORATIONS, STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS. ALL SHORT FILMS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC VIEWING ONLINE AND FREE OF CHARGE.RECENT FILM RELEASES INCLUDE: HERD IMPACT, THIS FARM IS MEDICINE, DURING THE DROUGHT, I SEE WATER & SUNSINE, GIVERS AND TAKERS, A FENCE AND AN OWNER. AMP PROJECT BY CARBON NATION FILM CREWS DOCUMENTED FARMERS PARTICIPATING IN THE ROOTS SO DEEP RESEARCH PROJECT. THE FOUR-PART DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES WAS COMPLETED IN 2023. REFER TO PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS SUPPLEMENT TO SCHEDULE O.

    Expenses $1,059,107 · Revenue $1,159,965

  • RESEARCH PROJECT - CARBON COWBOYSEARTH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (ESEF) IN COLLABORATION WITH ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (ASU) CONVENED AND LEADS RESEACH PROJECT WITH 20 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS FROM UNIVERSITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS AMERICA, WHO ARE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL WAYS TO DRAW DOWN MATERIAL AMOUNTS OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2. THE SCIENCE TEAM IS STUDING IMPACTS OF ADAPTIVE MULTI-PADDOCK (AMP) GRAZING ON AMERICAN FARMS AND RANCHES. ESEF IS FILMING THE ENTIRE RESEACH PROJECT AND PRODUCING FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY FILM. IN SPRING 2018, AMP GRAZING REARCH TEAM BEGAIN FIELD MEASUREMENTS IN THE SOUTHEAST USA. MEASURED DATA WAS COMPILED FROM CONTROLLED AND SEGMENTED TEST FIELDS ON TEN FARMS IN KY, TN, AL AND MS.

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Johanna C Byck

    SECRETARY TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $71,358
    From this org
    $71,358
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Peter M Byck

    PRESIDENT CEO

    Total calculated
    $49,000
    From this org
    $49,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Turney Berry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • L Michael Cantor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Allen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barry Sackett

    VP DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,205,131
    Expenses
    $1,059,107
    Contributions
    $1,051,559
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $151,454
    Expenses
    $285,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $786,454

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $656,064
    Expenses
    $582,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $881,942

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $327,946
    Expenses
    $262,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $718,801

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $536,124
    Expenses
    $383,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $671,823

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $171,746
    Expenses
    $181,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $541,318

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $356,413
    Expenses
    $385,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $580,232

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,823
    Expenses
    $270,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $607,847

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 October 2016 to 30 September 2017
Principal officer
Peter M Byck
Mailing address
555 N CENTRAL AVE SUITE 402PPHOENIX AZ 85004

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.