FRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

211 CULVER BLVD STE N

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 · 2024

• EDUCATION: THE FRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS' LOS ANGELESCOUNTY-BASED EDUCATION AND RESTORATION PROGRAMS, COLLECTIVELYCALLED "EXPLORE BALLONA", HAVE SINCE 1994 PROVIDED HANDS-ONEDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES TO AN ETHNICALLY, CULTURALLY, ANDECONOMICALLY DIVERSE POPULATION OF APPROXIMATELY 9,000 RESIDENTSEACH YEAR AT BALLONA'S SALT MARSH, DUNES AND FRESHWATER MARSH, ANDIN VARIOUS COMMUNITY SETTINGS. "EXPLORE BALLONA" OFFERS EDUCATIONAND SERVICE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES TO PRE-K-12, COLLEGE,COMMUNITY, AND CORPORATE GROUPS, CHANGING COMMUNITY MEMBERS FROMUNINFORMED RESIDENTS TO ACTIVE STEWARDS OF THE COUNTY'S LASTREMAINING VIABLE COASTAL WETLAND AND WATERSHED.

  Expenses $361,863 · Grants $41,641 · Revenue $34,541

• RESTORATION: SINCE 1990 AS PART OF OUR RESTORATION PROJECTS, OVER100,000 SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS HAVE REMOVED OVER 600 TONSOF GARBAGE AND NON-NATIVE PLANTS FROM THE BALLONA WETLANDS, ASWELL AS RENOVATION OF SEVERAL OUTDOOR LEARNING AREAS SUCH AS THEFIELD OFFICE/RESTORATION CENTER, THE VIEWING PLATFORM, ALSO BUILTDURING THE 1990'S BY A PACK OF BOY SCOUTS ON THE BERM CREATED FORTHE OLD LOS ANGELES PACIFIC RAILWAY ELECTRIC TROLLEY "RED CARLINE" TRESTLE, AND THE REPRESENTATIONAL VILLAGE OF THE NATIVETONGVA PEOPLE.

  Expenses $178,541

• SCIENCE: FRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS' SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM MONITORS THE AVIAN DIVERSITY OF THE WETLANDS, PERFORMS ANNUAL BUTTERFLY COUNTS, AND MONITORS OUR RESTORATION EFFORTS TO INFORM ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AND TRACK SUCCESS. WE ALSO LEAD THE SWALLOW NEST BOX PROGRAM AT THE FRESHWATER MARSH, AND WE ENCOURAGE THE COMMUNITY TO CREATE BIO DIVERSITY IN THEIR OWN BACKYARDS THROUGH OUR "GROW NATIVE!" PROGRAM.

  Expenses $109,280

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $794,097

  Expenses

  $846,634

  Contributions

  $490,221

  Grants paid

  $41,641

• 2023

  Revenue

  $912,730

  Expenses

  $845,633

  Contributions

  $561,634

  Grants paid

  $26,157

• 2022

  Revenue

  $650,196

  Expenses

  $528,567

  Contributions

  $508,848

  Grants paid

  $20,728

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

  $561,329

  Expenses

  $562,809

  Assets (EOY)

  $889,802

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $559,309

  Expenses

  $498,494

  Assets (EOY)

  $822,676

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $630,624

  Expenses

  $476,216

  Assets (EOY)

  $675,192

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $562,580

  Expenses

  $450,916

  Assets (EOY)

  $513,220

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $468,692

  Expenses

  $356,485

  Assets (EOY)

  $386,168

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $379,949

  Expenses

  $323,481

  Assets (EOY)

  $236,311

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $339,815

  Expenses

  $272,327

  Assets (EOY)

  $178,477

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $254,627

  Expenses

  $318,510

  Assets (EOY)

  $110,989

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $331,609

  Expenses

  $231,402

  Assets (EOY)

  $174,872

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $242,222

  Assets (EOY)

  $75,628

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

  $24,884

  2024 · BUS SCHOLARSHIP FOR FIELD TRIP

• LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

  $15,635

  2023 · BUS SCHOLARSHIP FOR FIELD TRIP

• BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS

  $9,647

  2024 · PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND MAINTAIN BDP

• BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS

  $9,647

  2023 · PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND MAINTAIN BDP

• BALLONA DISCOVERY PARK PARTNERS

  $9,188

  2022 · SUPPORT

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Grants received

• FORGOOD INC

  $84,956

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $40,060

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $35,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT

• FORGOOD INC

  $27,925

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $25,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $15,727

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FORGOOD INC

  $10,581

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

• THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

  $7,736

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $6,400

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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