SPORTSMEN FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C30

Classification

1200

Street

1968 RIDGE LN

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Mission and programs · 2024

• SEE SCHEDULE O.PROGRAMS: PROTECTING THE BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS FROM PROPOSED COPPER-NICKEL MINING IN THE RAINY RIVER WATERSHED OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA.ON JANUARY 26TH, 2023, INTERIOR SECRETARY DEB HAALAND CEMENTED HISTORIC PROTECTIONS FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS BY SIGNING AN ORDER TO WITHDRAW APPROXIMATELY 225,504 ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND IN THE RAINY RIVER WATERSHED OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA FROM FEDERAL MINERAL LEASING FOR 20 YEARS. THE MINERAL WITHDRAWAL ORDER WILL NOW BAN FEDERAL HARDROCK MINERAL LEASING UPSTREAM OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS AND VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK.THE MONUMENTAL DECISION ENSURES FUTURE GENERATIONS OF HUNTERS, ANGLERS, AND WILDERNESS PADDLERS WILL BRING THEIR CHILDREN TO FISH FOR LAKE TROUT, CHASE GROUSE, AND SHARE A CAMPFIRE UNDER THE STARS IN AMERICA'S MOST VISITED WILDERNESS FOR DECADES TO COME. THE BOUNDARY WATERS IS THE MOST VISITED WILDERNESS AREA IN THE UNITED STATES, ATTRACTING MORE THAN 150,000 VISITORS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD. IT IS A MAJOR DRIVER OF THE REGIONAL ECONOMY, SUPPORTING HUNDREDS OF BUSINESSES AND THOUSANDS OF JOBS. A VAST COLLECTION OF PEER-REVIEWED SCIENCE SHOWS THAT IF A TWIN METALS COPPER-NICKEL MINE WERE BUILT ALONG THE RIVERS AND STREAMS FLOWING INTO THE WILDERNESS, POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION WOULD BE CERTAIN. A PEER-REVIEWED INDEPENDENT STUDY FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY SHOWED THAT PROTECTION OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS FROM A PROPOSED TWIN METALS SULFIDE-ORE COPPER MINE WOULD RESULT IN DRAMATICALLY MORE JOBS AND MORE INCOME OVER A 20-YEAR PERIOD.IN 2024, SFBW WORKED WITH A BROAD COALITION OF CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS, OUTDOOR BUSINESSES, AND SUPPORTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. OUR SHARED WORK WITH STATE AND NATIONAL CONSERVATION PARTNERS IS WHY WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE THE IMPACT WE HAVE ON BWCA PROTECTION. SFBW WILL CONTINUE TO NURTURE THESE RELATIONSHIPS TO WORK TOWARDS FUTURE CONSERVATION WINS FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS, MINNESOTA, AND BEYOND.SPORTSMEN FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS CONTINUES ITS WORK AT BOTH THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS, ADVOCATING FOR PERMANENT PROTECTION OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS FROM COPPER-NICKEL MINING WHILE EDUCATING AND UPLIFTING THE PUBLIC ON THE ISSUE AND THE BOUNDARY WATERS ITSELF THROUGH EVENTS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ONLINE WORK.PROGRAMS: STEWARDSHIP & HABITAT INITIATIVE - FOR THE BETTER PART OF A DECADE, SPORTSMEN FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS HAS WORKED DILIGENTLY AT THE MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL, WASHINGTON DC, AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ADVOCATING FOR BOUNDARY WATERS PROTECTIONS, SOMETHING WE ARE ENORMOUSLY PROUD OF. WHILE THIS WILL REMAIN ONE OF THE PILLARS WE CONTINUE TO OPERATE UNDER, WE'VE DECIDED THAT THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH NEED HERE IN THE ARROWHEAD REGION OF MINNESOTA TO GET INVOLVED WITH "BOOTS ON THE GROUND" STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS THAT HELP IMPROVE THE REGION'S OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES.DURING THE SUMMER OF 2024, SPORTSMEN FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS ASKED THE QUESTION, "WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO FOR THE REGION WE LOVE TO HUNT AND FISH SO MUCH?" WE CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF PROJECTS AROUND THE ARROWHEAD REGION OF MINNESOTA BUT, IN THE END, SETTLED ON ADOPTING THE PINE ISLAND WMA ON LAKE VERMILION. BEING LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS AND NEEDING ACCESS AND HABITAT WORK, IT WAS EXACTLY THE TYPE OF PROJECT WE COULD GET BEHIND. THIS IS THE FIRST PROJECT OF SPORTSMEN FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS' STEWARDSHIP AND HABITAT INITIATIVE, A PROGRAM THAT WE ARE EXCITED TO IMPLEMENT IN MULTIPLE SPHERES IN AND AROUND THE BOUNDARY WATERS WITH PARTNERING AGENCIES, CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS, AND OUTDOOR INDUSTRY LEADERS.AS A PART OF THE ADOPTION, SFBW ACCOMPLISHED THE FOLLOWING THROUGH A VOLUNTEER EVENT WITH 50 VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATION AND OVER 400 VOLUNTEER HOURS: CREATE ACCESS FOR A DIFFICULT-TO-REACH WMA, CREATE AND IMPROVE A SERIES OF HUNTER WALKING TRAILS, PLANT WHITE SPRUCE AND RED OAK TREES TO IMPROVE WHITE-TAILED DEER WINTERING HABITAT, CLEAR CANOPY TO ALLOW FOR REGENERATING LONG LIVED CONIFER SPECIES TO GROW AND THRIVE, REPLACE AND REPAIR WMA SIGNAGE AT LANDING SPOTS, INSTALL AN INFORMATIONAL INVASIVE SPECIES KIOSK, INSTALL FISHING LINE COLLECTION TUBES, CLEAR/BRUSH/CHAINSAW THE WMA BOUNDARY LINE, INSTALL BOUNDARY SIGNS, AND MANAGE THE UPKEEP OF THE WMA DURING THE ADOPTION.

  Expenses $166,695 · Revenue $15,575

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $218,690

  Expenses

  $231,088

  Contributions

  $207,528

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $90,968

  Expenses

  $130,665

  Contributions

  $84,318

  Grants paid

  — not reported

• 2022

  Revenue

  $71,118

  Expenses

  $74,539

  Contributions

  $67,937

  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.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $72,100

  Expenses

  $76,561

  Assets (EOY)

  $150,644

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $120,070

  Expenses

  $42,419

  Assets (EOY)

  $142,581

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $157,677

  Expenses

  $103,219

  Assets (EOY)

  $65,607

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 2018

Tax period

1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018

Principal officer

Lukas Leaf - Executive Director

Mailing address

206 East Sheridan StreetEly MN 55731

Website

sportsmefortheboundarywaters.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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

• OUR CHANGE FOUNDATION

  $36,479

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $9,455

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $7,290

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $7,077

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $5,300

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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