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FRIENDS OF THE INYO

EIN 77-0389436 BISHOP, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,107,086
Expenses 2024
$1,045,105

Program services were 67.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
621 W LINE ST STE 201

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 Friends of the Inyos mission is to protect, and care for, the lands and waters of Californias Eastern Sierra.

  • Policy: Friends of the Inyo's largest program is its policy engagement program. In 2024, FOI continued to advocate for and protect California's Eastern Sierra from inappropriate projects aimed at extracting water and minerals from ecologically and culturally sensitive areas. FOI continued to advance campaigns to permanently protect 160,000 acres in southern Inyo County, and to designate a new Area of Critical Environmental Concern in northern Mono County. Additionally, through its policy engagement program, Friends of the Inyo achieved many protections for the land by advocating for conservation focused management provisions in recreation development proposals and federal land management plans.

    Expenses $490,859 · Grants $2,123

  • Stewardship: Friends of the Inyo effectively cared for the lands of the Eastern Sierra in 2024 through its stewardship program. This includes physical programs for protection and restoration of public lands through habitat monitoring and improvement, removal of invasive species, removal of human debris, and maintenance with the intent to limit the expansion of human dsiturbance in natural environments. Typical seasonal stewardship activities include trail and campground maintenance, restoration of disturbed sites, and public outreach and education. Our organization partners with local schools, college groups, donors, as well as local and federal agencies to care for the public lands of the Eastern Sierra.

    Expenses $210,899 · Grants $5,205

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.

  • Wendy Schneider

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $85,710
    From this org
    $69,710
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,000
    Hours/week
    40

  • Chris Lizza

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ellen Wehr

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sam Roberts

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tom Boo MD

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sydney Quinn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Dozier

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kyle Hamada

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gregg Vane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancee Murray

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robin Bolser

    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
    $1,107,086
    Expenses
    $1,045,105
    Contributions
    $1,089,035
    Grants paid
    $7,328
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $940,557
    Expenses
    $957,611
    Contributions
    $935,361
    Grants paid
    $650
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $788,474
    Expenses
    $970,750
    Contributions
    $793,214
    Grants paid
    $1,930

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
    $972,026
    Expenses
    $703,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $638,440

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $754,546
    Expenses
    $525,708
    Assets (EOY)
    $510,709

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $547,883
    Expenses
    $613,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,739

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $547,883
    Expenses
    $613,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,739

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $579,348
    Expenses
    $573,571
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,781

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $579,348
    Expenses
    $573,571
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,781

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $472,933
    Expenses
    $475,040
    Assets (EOY)
    $248,856

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,119
    Expenses
    $495,654
    Assets (EOY)
    $302,191

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $480,918
    Expenses
    $444,218
    Assets (EOY)
    $258,454

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $479,922
    Expenses
    $515,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,291

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

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