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SEAS OF TREES INC

EIN 84-4578242 TELLURIDE, CO

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Revenue 2025
$18,222
Expenses 2025
$49,439

Program services were 64.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C50
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 4191

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

Primary exempt purpose

TO PLANT MORE TREES AS A WAY TO HELP REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT. WE SUPPORT THE REGROWTH OF FORESTS GLOBALLY TO HELP COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE AND PROTECT BIODIVERSITY IN THREATENED FORESTS AROUND THE WORLD. WE OFFER TREE PLANTING LOCALLY IN TELLURIDE, COLORADO AND IN COLORADO GENERALLY. WE PARTNER WITH TREE PLANTERS IN SPECIFIC AREAS AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL.

  • U.S. OPERATIONS: IN 2025 SEAS OF TREES SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED REFORESTATION PROJECTS IN THE U.S. IN MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, COLORADO, A TOTAL OF 550 TREES WERE PLANTED. THIS WAS A COLLABORATIVE TREE-PLANTING EVENT AIMED AT RESTORING GREEN SPACES. THROUGH THESE TYPES OF COLLABORATIONS, SEAS OF TREES COMBINES ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION WITH VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT, YOUTH PARTICIPATION, AND COMMUNITY PRIDE. A SECOND RESTORATION PROJECT WAS COMPLETED IN 2025 AT WILSON MESA, COLORADO, WITH 1,000 TREES PLANTED. THIS WAS RESTORATION OF NATIVE TREE SPECIES IN PREVIOUSLY DISTURBED LAND TO IMPROVE BIODIVERSITY.LASTLY, THE ORGANIZATION WORKED TO MONITOR AND EVALUATE PREVIOUS REFORESTATION PROJECTS.

    Expenses $17,069

  • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: SACRED VALLEY, PERU - THE ORGANIZATION PARTNERED WITH A LOCAL COMMUNITY TO PLANT 1,000 NATIVE TREES, HELPING RESTORE DEGRADED AREAS WHILE HONORING TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE. ESCOLA COMMUNITARIA MARAMAR, BRAZIL - 125 TREES AND NATIVE PLANTS WERE PLANTED AS PART OF AN ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPING AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM. ENGAGING 82 STUDENTS, 18 STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, THE PROJECT FOSTERED HANDS-ON LEARNING, SUSTAINABILITY, AND FOOD PRODUCTION FOR THE SCHOOL'S MEALS.SHEELA SHRESTHA'S MEMORY PLANTATION, NEPAL - SEAS OF TREES SUPPORTED A MEMORIAL REFORESTATION PROJECT TOGETHER WITH STUDENTS IN TINPIPLE, TARKESWOR MUNICIPALITY, NEPAL. 500 TREES WERE PLANTED TO PREVENT FUTURE LANDSLIDES AND RESTORE DEGRADED SLOPES.SUP ASIA MANGROVE PLANTING, CAMBODIA - IN KAMPOT PROVINCE, THE ORGANIZATION PARTNERED WITH SUP ASIA AND THE TRAPAENG SANGKAE COMMUNITY TO PLANT 3,000 MANGROVE TREES. BUGESERA, RWANDA - THE ORGANIZATION ALONG WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS PROVIDED COMBINED CLIMATE EDUCATION AND REFORESTATION PROJECTS. THE INITIATIVE SUPPORTED THE PLANTING OF 1,000 AGROFORESTRY AND FRUIT TREES.

    Expenses $14,697

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Josephine Fleming

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melanie Montoya

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shannon Clements

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joanna Kanow

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $10,000
    Compensation
    $10,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Grace Rothmeyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ayla Kanow

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Kanow

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gerald Measer

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Natalie Fijalkowski

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shai Ann Kanow

    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
    $18,222
    Expenses
    $49,439
    Contributions
    $18,222
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $79,002
    Expenses
    $73,792
    Contributions
    $79,002
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $71,115
    Expenses
    $54,366
    Contributions
    $71,115
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Joanna Kanow
Mailing address
PO Box 4191Telluride CO 81435

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.