- 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
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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
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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.
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Jonathan PilchJONATHAN PILCH
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $124,059
- From this org
- $109,563
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,496
- Hours/week
- 40
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Alexa RosendaleALEXA ROSENDALE
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Petrise SwitzerPETRISE SWITZER
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Bob CulbertsonBOB CULBERTSON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Teresa DelfinoTERESA DELFINO
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Sam EarnshawSAM EARNSHAW
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Dawn ReisDAWN REIS
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kim TschantzKIM TSCHANTZ
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Chris Johnson-LyonsCHRIS JOHNSON-LYONS
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Patrick FitzPATRICK FITZ
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Jennifer HernandezJENNIFER HERNANDEZ
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Jerry ThomasJERRY THOMAS
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Patricia RuppeltPATRICIA RUPPELT
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Karina MorenoKARINA 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $2,517,510
- Expenses
- $1,740,109
- Contributions
- $2,462,581
- Grants paid
- $64,424
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,480,025
- Expenses
- $1,457,255
- Contributions
- $1,469,913
- Grants paid
- $63,120
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,217,597
- Expenses
- $1,035,705
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,061,837
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $885,900
- Expenses
- $939,550
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,752,006
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $762,107
- Expenses
- $855,336
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,820,297
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $940,446
- Expenses
- $747,526
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,882,987
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $604,085
- Expenses
- $746,801
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,684,249
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $828,806
- Expenses
- $710,425
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,835,820
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $617,696
- Expenses
- $633,454
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,693,891
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $712,634
- Expenses
- $613,661
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,701,926
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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
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$130,000
2023 OPERATING SUPPORT
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2022 FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT, SUPPORT PROGRAMS, SERVICES, SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDS
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2024 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$39,933
2022 Urban Forest Management
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$30,000
2024 LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE
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$30,000
2022 OPERATING SUPPORT
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.