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FRIENDS OF THE LIVING DESERT INC

EIN 85-0325906 CARLSBAD, NM

Revenue 2024
$85,654
Expenses 2024
$74,986

Program services were 92.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 100

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 PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED ARE (1) TO ASSIST THE LIVING DESERT STATE PARK, A STATE PARK SITUATED IN CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO, BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND VOLUNTEER HELP; (2) THE DOING AND PERFORMING OF ANY AND ALL ACTS OR THINGS NECESSARY, PROPER, OR CONVENIENT FOR OR INCIDENTAL TO THE FURTHERANCE OR THE CARRYING OUT OF THE PURPOSES HEREIN ABOVE MENTIONED; AND (3) TO ENGAGE IN ANY LAWFUL ACT OR ACTIVITY FOR WHICH NONPROFIT CORPORATION MAY BE ORGANIZED UNDER THE "NONPROFIT CORPORATION ACT" OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDED FINANCIAL AND VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE TO THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO LIVING DESERT STATE PARK IN CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IS COMPRISED OF THE PURCHASE AND DONATION OF MATERIALS, SUPPLIES, SERVICES, PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT.

    Expenses $69,205

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.

  • VERONICA RONI BARNHART

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • KATHY HAMPTON

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • KATELYN MAXWELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CAROL BELISKI

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • SANDRA COSAND

    ASST TREASUR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • ADAN DONNIE RODRIQUEZ JR

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • MICHAEL PHEIFER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0

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
    $85,654
    Expenses
    $74,986
    Contributions
    $68,625
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $65,177
    Expenses
    $101,998
    Contributions
    $56,483
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $124,611
    Expenses
    $216,641
    Contributions
    $116,921
    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
    $58,911
    Expenses
    $73,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $292,194
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $148,956
    Expenses
    $66,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,314
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $84,604
    Expenses
    $38,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,707
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $57,331
    Expenses
    $35,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $177,448
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $75,749
    Expenses
    $76,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $156,073
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,477
    Expenses
    $26,614
    Assets (EOY)
    $156,764
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,848
    Expenses
    $34,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,901
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $185,986
    Expenses
    $726,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,144
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $140,272
    Expenses
    $575,110
    Assets (EOY)
    $695,881
  • 2010 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $22,284
    Expenses
    $25,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,487

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.