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WESTERN STATES TRAIL ENDOWMENT FUND

EIN 68-0470208 AUBURN, CA

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Revenue 2025
$81,340
Expenses 2025
$91,902

Program services were 95.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T22
Classification
1000
Street
150 A GUM LANE 103

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 · 2025

Mission

The organization was created as a supporting organization for the Western States Trail Foundation. Its main purpose is to manage the endowment fund for use in the charitable purposes of the Western States Trail, such as preservation and maintenance of the historic trail.

  • Trail Improvement Program:This additional program is for the preservation and improvement of land surrounding the Western States Trail recreation area. A $50,000 restricted donation for the care and upkeep of the Robie Equestrian Park was received this year towards this mission. Funds of $78,814 were distributed to the supported organization towards expansion of the Trail.Development of a memorial structure at the Auburn Staging area is still in process.

    Expenses $78,814 · Grants $78,814

  • Adopt-The-Trail Program: Management of investment activity consisted of selling $222,794 of various securities resulting in net realized gain of $7,852. Most proceeds were re-invested. Dividend and interest income, including capital gain distributions less foreign tax paid, of $21,468 was earned on investments. Investment management fees were $8,859. The organization's investments' market value ended the year with an unrealized gain of $71,828.

    Expenses $8,859

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tony Benedetti

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mike Pickett

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jerry Wittenauer

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Frank Crum

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marisa Dardi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roxanne Greene

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Crysta Turnage

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Herten

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathie Perry

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $81,340
    Expenses
    $91,902
    Contributions
    $52,020
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $78,289
    Expenses
    $45,059
    Contributions
    $50,030
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,426
    Expenses
    $113,103
    Contributions
    $2,340
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    -$37,703
    Expenses
    $89,685
    Contributions
    $3,500
    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
    $135,665
    Expenses
    $15,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $993,251
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $82,025
    Expenses
    $13,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $880,023
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $55,076
    Expenses
    $20,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $826,202
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $24,627
    Expenses
    $42,018
    Assets (EOY)
    $754,624
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $154,288
    Expenses
    $51,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $807,597
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,199
    Expenses
    $14,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $700,901
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $56,881
    Expenses
    $277,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $650,185
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $158,085
    Expenses
    $31,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $885,541
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $159,751
    Expenses
    $16,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $767,596
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $33,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $640,893

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

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 SOUNK.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.