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FRIENDS OF VALLE DE ORO NWR

EIN 46-2102958 ALBUQUERQUE, NM

Revenue 2023
$184,118
Expenses 2023
$230,940

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C113
Classification
2000
Street
7851 2ND ST SW

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 · 2023

Mission

The mission of the Friends of Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge is to help shape and support Valle de Oro NWR. We will foster a community conservation ethic by promoting environmental and cultural awareness through public educational programs and recreational opportunities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Friends of Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge aims to support the Refuge and foster a community conservation ethic. We invest in wildlife and people by building partnerships and community engaged conservation efforts, supporting habitat restoration, educational and interpretive programming and access to the Refuge, managing membership and volunteer groups, and raising funds for Refuge projects, programs and facilities.

  • Refuge Development: The Friends help run programs and provide support to Refuge and Infrastructure development on and off the Refuge to maintain Valle de Oro NWR'S status as a national model for Urban Wildlife Refuges. Highlights of the Friends Refuge Development activities and accomplishments in 2023 include: growing partnerships, program elements and capacity to support the ABQ Backyard Refuge Program, a collaborative program aimed at supporting community members to build wildlife habitat and green stormwater infrastructure on private land in the Albuquerque metro-area; supporting volunteer planting events to contribute to the restoration work on the Refuge's property, promoting environmental justice efforts in coordination with local advocacy groups, supporting Environmental Justice events and outreach, and opening a Nature Store at the new visitors center to enhance visitor experiences.

    Expenses $135,556

  • Other Various programs.

    Expenses $66,921

  • Education: The Friends of Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge (Friends) provided funds, volunteer labor, and in-kind resources as required to meet the educational program needs and goals of the organization and the Refuge. The key education activities and accomplishments of the Friends in 2023-24 include; Artistic direction and planning for mosaic arts projects; ongoing support for the Bosque Education Guide curriculum; and providing the Opening Doors to Nature Education Scholarship program to award a total of $3,000 in scholarships to 4 college students studying in an environmental-focused field.

    Expenses $15,263

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KAT WHEELER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KATHLEEN BURIANEK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MAKENZIE SANCHEZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BRYAN CRAWFORD

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • JOAN MORRISON

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • FOREST GRABER

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $184,118
    Expenses
    $230,940
    Contributions
    $170,684
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $154,774
    Expenses
    $208,626
    Contributions
    $116,304
    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
    $58,469
    Expenses
    $39,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $238,134

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $261,546
    Expenses
    $134,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,390

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $146,883
    Expenses
    $118,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,874

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $113,023
    Expenses
    $122,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,654

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $156,632
    Expenses
    $142,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,405

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $227,326
    Expenses
    $217,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,544

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $235,370
    Expenses
    $138,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,033

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $134,828
    Expenses
    $65,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,885

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 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Kenneth Reese
Mailing address
PO Box 9501Albuquerque NM 87119
Website
www.friendsofvalledeoro.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.