APPALACHIAN FOREST HERITAGE AREA INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

S32

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 1206

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• MOUNTAIN PARTNERS IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC

  EIN 55-0745746

Mission and programs · 2024

• AFNHA AmeriCorps deployed 30 National Service members throughout the state West Virginia to support organizations serving within the themes of Conservation, and Heritage for Community Development. Members provided over 51,000 hours of service to 27 sites. Conservation service specifically included activities such as watershed restoration, environmental education, non-native species management, field data collection, tree planting, trail building and maintenance, environmental recreation support, among others. Heritage members supported museums, cultural centers for music and the arts, and hands on Historic Preservation. Community Development members supported organizations such as welcome centers, municipalities, boards, and foundations. All service members provided support for volunteer management activities for their sites and added greatly to the volunteer capacity and output of their specific organizations. AC members managed over 312 unique volunteers for their sponsoring sites in 2024, increasing capacity for their site. Members provided direct service resulting in the improvement of public lands.

  Expenses $795,750 · Grants $657,209 · Revenue $826,488

• AFHA Discovery Visitor Center hosted interpretive displays showcasing the Appalachian Fotrest Heritage Area's diverse natural and cultural assets. In 2023 we explored the theme of Material Culture. The exhibit spoke to the influence of the forests played on folk art and music and the materials utilized in the those expressions. In 2023 over 2100 visitors were hosted at the Discovery Center, and over 3000 visitors were hosted at the tenant partner museum located in the Darden Mill known as the WV Railroad Museum.

  Expenses $27,252 · Grants $11,337 · Revenue $21,151

• AFNHA' National Heritage Partnership Program supported AFNHA General Operations as the coordinating entity for the NHA, provided funding for $119,000 worth of grant making to nonprofits across our region in support of projects that support our mission, supported partnership development for the organization, and the development of branding.

  Expenses $358,510 · Grants $426,979 · Revenue $428,787

• Other programs include the Highlands Creative Economy to promote tourism and tourism destinations in our region, the Pollinator Initiative to provide education and outreach on the importance of pollinators, and our Indigenous Appalachia program.

  Expenses $75,857 · Grants $64,586 · Revenue $64,586

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

  $1,396,416

  Expenses

  $1,402,224

  Contributions

  $1,230,905

  Grants paid

  $121,522

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,085,929

  Expenses

  $1,127,540

  Contributions

  $927,696

  Grants paid

  $119,426

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,192,951

  Expenses

  $1,129,251

  Contributions

  $1,069,169

  Grants paid

  $42,320

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

  $829,310

  Expenses

  $642,442

  Assets (EOY)

  $480,722

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $785,482

  Expenses

  $745,664

  Assets (EOY)

  $193,671

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.

Grants made

• Evergreen Heritage Center Foundation Inc

  $13,500

  2024 · The purpose of this project is to develop displays and interpretive signage for an exhibit memorializing the Evergreen Heritage Center's (EHC) Forest Gatehouse, originally built circa 1822.

• Woodlands Development Group

  $12,500

  2023 · The rehabilitated Tygart Hotel will have it's walls covered with original art created by local and regional artists to explore the history and stories of five Ghost Towns in the Monongahela National Forest. The works will be paired with topo maps, historic photographs, and interpretation as well as a guide book/brochure to help visitors and residents locate and further explore the sites of the towns and delve deeper into the history of our region and communities.

• Woodlands Development Group

  $10,000

  2024 · The rehabilitated Tygart Hotel will have it's walls covered with original art created by local and regional artists to explore the history and stories of five Ghost Towns in the Monongahela National Forest. The works will be paired with topo maps, historic photographs, and interpretation as well as a guide book/brochure to help visitors and residents locate and further explore the sites of the towns and delve deeper into the history of our region and communities.

• Hardy County Convention and Visitors Bureau

  $10,000

  2024 · Working with designers, installers, a writer, and continuing our work with consultants finalizing the museum content with the Visit Hardy Executive Director. It will also produce a travel information center and home for Visit Hardy.

• High Rocks Educational Corporation

  $10,000

  2024 · We need to restore and repair two buildings on Historic Main Street. We are seeking funding to stabilize both buildings from water damage, which could include replacing and repairing roofing, and other structural repairs to ensure that the building is safe for community use.

• Passages of the W Potomac Heritage Area

  $10,000

  2024 · The PWPHA would like to add augmented reality sites to the app. These sites would all be historical sites throughout the county. The augmented reality would turn those sites into real-time history sites through the visitors phone and app.

• Greenbrier Valley Archaeology

  $10,000

  2023 · The Fort Warwick project combines archaeology and heritage tourism to assist preservation and interpretation. Through tourism and experiential learning, it will create a new understanding of the role of forest resources in frontier settlement and history.

• Mountain Heritage Trails Inc

  $10,000

  2023 · Identification, research, mapping, and documentation of the process that reveals and redresses overlooked and obscured private and public burial sites of enslaved and free African Americans in Hardy County.

• Randolph County Parks and Rec

  $10,000

  2023 · To renovate the historic one room schoolhouse that is located on the 4-H Camp Pioneer property and develop the building as a museum featuring the history of 4-H in Randolph County.

• Arthurdale Heritage Inc

  $9,494

  2024 · This project will entail upgrading four bathrooms and the HVAC system in our historic Esso Station and Museum building as well as restoring original stone pillars in our furniture factory ruins and restoring the brick chimney at our historic E-2 Homestead house.

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

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Grants received

• NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION

  $49,950

  2023 · Protect

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