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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN WILDERNESS STEWARDS

EIN 47-2407669 ASHEVILLE, NC

Revenue 2024
$2,019,905
Expenses 2024
$1,715,760

Program services were 80.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C50
Classification
1200
Street
225 E CHESTNUT STREET

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).

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.

  • Kaitlin de Varona

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $97,163
    From this org
    $64,618
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,545
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tracy Harrell

    Finance Director

    Total calculated
    $58,814
    From this org
    $52,570
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,244
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rebekah Morrisson

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $61,996
    From this org
    $54,979
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,017
    Hours/week
    40

  • Paul Dickens

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Sporl

    Chair to Nov 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lornett Vestal

    Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nealon DeVore

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bart Hawley

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aliya Naim

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Anya Boyko

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Josh Burt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Aubree Pierce

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Lena Snyder

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Olive Toran

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Delie Wilkins

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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 — 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
    $2,019,905
    Expenses
    $1,715,760
    Contributions
    $314,853
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,216,976
    Expenses
    $1,193,208
    Contributions
    $224,067
    Grants paid
    $70,125
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,034,257
    Expenses
    $1,031,898
    Contributions
    $135,487
    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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.