SIERRA ROOTS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P20

Classification

1000

Street

19816 BUCK RIDGE RD

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

• Manage cold weather shelter operations for Nevada County in Nevada City. The Sierra Roots Weather Shelter is a program in partnership with Nevada County. The Weather Shelter uses a 30-bed public facility in Nevada City as a temporary shelter venue during extreme weather events. The shelter was open for 15 days in 2025.

  Expenses $36,760 · Grants $40,406

• Using a local government grant from the City of Nevada City, we facilitated a portion of their Neighbor-to-Neighbor project. We engaged the homeless population in wildfire prevention to address their safety during wildfires and their role in preventing wildfires from occurring.

  Expenses $7,551 · Grants $7,551

• Provide food, clothing and supplies to the homeless of Western Nevada County: We provided weekly hot meals for homeless participants, using volunteers, totaling 835 meals in 2025. The meals also provided a place to give away clothes, shoes, sleeping bags, and other essential items to participants. This program allows us to cultivate relationships with homeless participants in order to engage them in our advocacy programs and connect them to needed public services. Most participants in this program are chronically homeless, often living in tents in the woods and in other secluded areas.

  Expenses $3,556 · Grants $3,330

• Using what remained of a state grant and donations, we used our Advocacy program to increase public awareness of homeless issues and increase community engagement in those issues. We were able to produce numerous articles and op-eds in the local paper to increase awareness of local homeless issues.

  Expenses $1,180 · Grants $1,140

• The Write On program was intended to teach homeless and formerly homeless students to write and tell their stories in poetry, short stories and essays. Once completed, assistant and volunteers were to record and publish the finished works. Unfortunately, the federal arts grant funding this project ended, our Project Director left the organization, and we were unable to complete the project. 11

  Expenses $1,105 · Grants $1,105

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.

• Susan Rice

  Board Chair and Executive Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  25

• Dianne Weichel

  Treasurer, Secretary and Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• Nick Wilczek

  Board member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  3

• Anabella Funk

  Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• Laura Williams

  Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  3

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

  $95,606

  Expenses

  $84,558

  Contributions

  $95,611

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $120,910

  Expenses

  $120,322

  Contributions

  $117,879

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $128,880

  Expenses

  $120,372

  Contributions

  $128,647

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $83,045

  Expenses

  $133,512

  Contributions

  $123,114

  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

  $219,977

  Expenses

  $203,553

  Assets (EOY)

  $178,689

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $293,876

  Expenses

  $283,445

  Assets (EOY)

  $154,749

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 2015

Tax period

1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015

Principal officer

Janice O'Brien

Mailing address

PO Box 2086Nevada City CA 95959

Website

sierraroots.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 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

• HOMELESS RESOURCE COUNCIL OF THE SIERRAS

  $90,904

  2022 · Homeless Services

Other IRS files