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WATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH

EIN 77-0519882 WATSONVILLE, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$2,517,510
Expenses 2024
$1,740,109

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C32
Classification
1000
Street
500 HARKINS SLOUGH 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 · 2024

Mission

WATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH ADVOCATES FOR WETLAND ISSUES, EDUCATES IN SCHOOLS AND IN THE PUBLIC ARENA, RESTORES DEGRADED HABITATS, AND PRESERVES WETLANDS OF THE PAJARO VALLEY, ESPECIALLY INVOLVING MEMBERS OF THE WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY AND THE STUDENTS OF THE PAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH ADVOCATES FOR WETLAND ISSUES, EDUCATES IN SCHOOLS AND IN THE PUBLIC ARENA, RESTORES DEGRADED HABITATS, AND PRESERVES WETLANDS OF THE PAJARO VALLEY

  • Wilderness and Watershed Conservation: Implemented a wide range of native habitat and watershed restoration projects, including floodplain and wetlands restoration, urban habitat restoration, urban forestry, on-farm conservation projects, public trails and access improvements, and community outreach and volunteer projects. Projects were completed with many local, state, and federal partners, including the City of Watsonville, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, and private landowners.

    Expenses $759,566 · Grants $7,867

  • Environmental Education Programs: Watsonville Wetlands Watch provides outdoor and classroom based experiential environmental education programs for over 6,000 students in K-12, as well colleges and universities that increase knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the environment and unique habitats of the Pajaro Valleys wetlands and provide meaningful ways for youth to contribute to local environmental and sustainability solutions. Our education programs are operated out of the Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center, an environmental education center and community center on the campus of Pajaro Valley High School. We run a volunteer docent program and offer free tours and lectures to the community that encourage the publics appreciation and increased understanding of the value of wetlands in the Pajaro Valley.

    Expenses $570,219 · Grants $56,557

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.

  • Jonathan Pilch

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $124,059
    From this org
    $109,563
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,496
    Hours/week
    40
  • Alexa Rosendale

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Petrise Switzer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Bob Culbertson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Teresa Delfino

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Sam Earnshaw

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dawn Reis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kim Tschantz

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Chris Johnson-Lyons

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patrick Fitz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Hernandez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jerry Thomas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patricia Ruppelt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karina Moreno

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,517,510
    Expenses
    $1,740,109
    Contributions
    $2,462,581
    Grants paid
    $64,424
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,480,025
    Expenses
    $1,457,255
    Contributions
    $1,469,913
    Grants paid
    $63,120
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,330,837
    Expenses
    $1,218,914
    Contributions
    $1,315,022
    Grants paid
    $55,486

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
    $1,217,597
    Expenses
    $1,035,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,061,837
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $885,900
    Expenses
    $939,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,752,006
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $762,107
    Expenses
    $855,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,820,297
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $940,446
    Expenses
    $747,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,882,987
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $604,085
    Expenses
    $746,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,684,249
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $828,806
    Expenses
    $710,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,835,820
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $617,696
    Expenses
    $633,454
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,693,891
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $712,634
    Expenses
    $613,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,701,926
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $602,197
    Expenses
    $591,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,168,526

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

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

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.