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CONCERNED RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENTAL WORKERS

EIN 77-0374392 OJAI, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,350,374
Expenses 2024
$1,328,814

Program services were 84.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50Z
Classification
1000
Street
370 BALDWIN 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

The C.R.E.W. is an environmentally oriented youth leadership and employment and youth education nonprofit oganization. The C.R.E.W.s mission is to provide job training, paid employment and opportunities for leadership and community service for youth from Kindergarten to age 26, while preserving, maintaining, and improving public and private wildlands and protecting local communities against the threat of wildfire

Activities or mission (Part I)

C.R.E.W. is an environmentally oriented leadership, employment, and education program for young people from Kindergarten to age 26

  • 1) Fire mitigation services; Prevention of wildfires by the free removal of hazardous vegetative fuels brush clearance for low income seniors, veterans and disabled residents. This program also provides free chipping services for all Ojai Valley residents. 2) Trail repair and construction programs: Trail construction and repair on private and public lands with priority focus within the catastrophic 2017 Thomas Fire Burn Scar 3) Environmental and conservation work: Restoration and Conservation of multiple acre projects that involves trail construction for public access, vegetation management, alternative treatments, irrigation, planting and maintenance of critical habitats.

    Expenses $746,798 · Grants $244,844 · Revenue $396,140

  • Green Valley Project - A movement by high school students in the Ojai Valley and surrounding communities to make a difference by repairing our environment- by planting trees, removing invasive vegetation, restoring damaged meadow or forest habitats for birds, bees, butterflies, or creeks for fish and turtles.

    Expenses $231,179

  • Once upon a Watershed: Once upon a Watershed provides hands-on local watershed education, restoration and environmental stewardship experience for Kindergarten through 8th grade students in the Ventura River Watershed. Through hands-on, standards-based environmental education, our programs cultivate a sense of shared responsibility for our whole earth system, instilling confidence and hope by empowering young people to make a real difference at the local watershed scale.

    Expenses $141,698 · Grants $60,000 · Revenue $80,223

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.

  • Michelle Henson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mary Bergen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Laura Ciontea

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Sandy Buechley

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bill Brothers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Becky Beckett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bill Slaughter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Atticus Reyes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John McNeil

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peter Deneen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Roger McDivitt

    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
    $1,350,374
    Expenses
    $1,328,814
    Contributions
    $882,457
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,094,617
    Expenses
    $1,090,110
    Contributions
    $604,476
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,252,250
    Expenses
    $939,520
    Contributions
    $631,849
    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
    $934,690
    Expenses
    $684,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $505,530

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $509,397
    Expenses
    $562,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $260,361

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $541,396
    Expenses
    $505,303
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,236

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,548
    Expenses
    $342,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,167

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $301,675
    Expenses
    $272,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,795

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $378,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,377

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.