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FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA

EIN 35-2426283 BLUFF, UT

Revenue 2024
$3,561,345
Expenses 2024
$2,208,317

Program services were 83.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 33

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

BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP WORKS TO PROTECT AND BUILD RESPECT FOR THE CULTURAL AND NATURAL LANDSCAPES OF THE GREATER BEARS EARS REGION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP WORKS TO PROTECT AND BUILD RESPECT FOR THE CULTURAL AND NATURAL LANDSCAPES OF THE GREATER BEARS EARS REGION.

  • BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP CARRIES OUT IMPACTFUL WORK TO PROTECT THE GREATER BEARS EARS REGION IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH THROUGH A MULTI-FACETED APPROACH TO CONSERVATION, WHICH INCLUDES PAIRING ON-THE-GROUND FIELDWORK, EDUCATION, AND ADVOCACY. WE SUPPORT AND CONTRIBUTE TO SMART LOCAL, CONSERVATION EFFORTS, RESEARCH EFFORTS, AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE ACTIVITIES IN THE REGION AS WELL AS SUPPORT TRIBAL PARTNERS WORKING TO PROTECT THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS. IN 2024, BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP SAFELY CONTINUED PUBLIC LANDS STEWARDSHIP EFFORTS IN THE REGION, INCLUDING CARRYING OUT CONSERVATION EFFORTS AT HIGHLY VISITED CULTURAL SITES IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH SUCH AS STRUCTURAL CONSERVATION, TRAIL WORK, FENCING, PLACEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SIGNAGE, AND MORE. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO CARRIED OUT RESEARCH, INCLUDING RECORDING MULTIPLE ROCK IMAGERY SITES TO ASSIST LAND MANAGERS BY ADDING TO THE OFFICIAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF THE REGION. BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP OWNS AND MANAGES THE BEARS EARS EDUCATION CENTER AND CONTINUED OUR PROGRAM AND ADVOCACY WORK, FOCUSED ON VIRTUAL OUTREACH EFFORTS. DURING PEAK SEASON, BEARS EARS EDUCATION CENTER PROVIDES CRITICAL VISITOR INFORMATION TO OVER 150 VISITORS A DAY. OUR EDUCATION PROGRAM PROVIDES FIELD TRIPS FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS IN SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH, A FREE-FOR-PARTICIPANTS SUMMER CAMP, THREE-DAY, TWO-NIGHT RIVER TRIP ALONG THE SAN JUAN RIVER, CLASSROOM PRESENTATIONS AND COMMUNITY STAR PARTIES PROMOTING THE DARK SKY RESOURCES OF THE REGION. BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP PROVIDES FREE COMMUNITY LECTURES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOLUNTEERS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. OUR ORGANIZATION SHARED VISIT WITH RESPECT MESSAGING AND BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT INFORMATION WITH MORE THAN 20,000 POTENTIAL VISITORS THROUGH OUR WEBSITE, BEARSEARSPARTNERSHIP.ORG. BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP ALSO LAUNCHED PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS TO ENCOURAGE VISITORS TO PAY THE PROPER BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT FEES, CRITICAL IN THE EFFORT TO INCREASE RESOURCES, AND TO PACK OUT HUMAN WASTE, A GROWING PROBLEM IN THE REGION. ADDITIONALLY, BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP LED A MOVEMENT TO ORGANIZE A COHORT OF NONPROFIT AND INDIGENOUS LEADERS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING A CULTURALLY RICH LANDSCAPE LOCATED EAST OF BEARS EARS IN SAN JUAN COUNTY, UT.

    Expenses $1,834,979 · Grants $152,478

  • MISC. EXPENSE

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.

  • JOE NEUHOF

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $138,042
    From this org
    $127,951
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,091
    Hours/week
    50

  • TAMARA DESROSIERS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • MARK GALBRAITH

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • HILLARY HOFFMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • CHRISTOPHER LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • ALFRED LOMAHQUAHU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • SANDY MAILLIARD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • DAVID NIMKIN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • DAVINA SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • LINDA SOSA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • ALLISON STEGNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • SARAH STELLBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • LOUIS WILLIAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

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
    $3,561,345
    Expenses
    $2,208,317
    Contributions
    $3,463,539
    Grants paid
    $152,478
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,930,461
    Expenses
    $1,397,196
    Contributions
    $1,873,324
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,386,280
    Expenses
    $1,583,552
    Contributions
    $1,320,675
    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
    $1,055,373
    Expenses
    $1,147,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,164,843

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $947,133
    Expenses
    $1,019,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,250,985

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,239,833
    Expenses
    $1,156,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,323,718

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,436,938
    Expenses
    $596,114
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,237,385

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $738,899
    Expenses
    $417,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $396,036

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $181,636
    Expenses
    $224,824
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,068

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $240,087
    Expenses
    $190,585
    Assets (EOY)
    $116,256

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 2013

Tax period
1 February 2013 to 31 January 2014
Principal officer
Joshua Ewing
Mailing address
PO Box 338Bluff UT 84512
Website
www.cedarmesafriends.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

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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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.