2023-09-18T09:37:15-05:00 2022-12-31 541487262 MATTHEWS CARTER & BOYCE 12500 FAIR LAKES CIRCLE SUITE 260 FAIRFAX VA 22033 990 2022-01-01 541868546 EARTH SANGHA EART 7033333022 5101 I BACKLICK ROAD ANNANDALE VA 22003 CHRISTOPHER BRIGHT PRESIDENT 7033333022 2023-09-14 1 CHRISTOPHER BRIGHT 999009999 0 KATHLEEN M FLAHERTY P00969957 7032183600 2023-09-13 0 AAL1 IAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z CHRISTOPHER BRIGHT 5101 I BACKLICK ROAD ANNANDALE VA 22003 570000 0 X WWW.EARTHSANGHA.ORG X 1997 VA CONSERVATION, ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION, AND HELPING PEOPLE DEVELOP HEALTHIER CONNECTIONS TO THE LANDS AND WATERS AROUND THEM. 9 7 11 1225 0 0 361479 216206 223164 353518 467 276 0 0 585110 570000 45000 0 0 0 297723 355614 0 0 32491 198765 221321 541488 576935 43622 -6935 924897 916667 2303 948 922594 915719 X CONSERVATION, ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION, AND HELPING PEOPLE DEVELOP HEALTHIER CONNECTIONS TO THE LANDS AND WATERS AROUND THEM. 0 0 268180 340310 DC-AREA WILD PLANT NURSERY: PROPAGATION FROM THE WILD OF ABOUT 320 PLANT SPECIES NATIVE TO THE GREATER WASHINGTON, DC, REGION FOR USE IN LOCAL ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION PROJECTS. ALL STOCK IS LOCAL ECOTYPE (PROPAGATED DIRECTLY FROM LOCAL WILD NATIVE-PLANT POPULATIONS). SOME OF THESE SPECIES ARE RARE, EITHER LOCALLY OR ON THE STATE LEVEL; WE ARE PROPAGATING THEM AT THE REQUEST OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, FOR USE ON THEIR RESTORATION SITES. OUR PLANTS ARE ALSO USED IN OUR OWN PROJECTS AND IN THOSE OF OTHER NONPROFITS, "FRIENDS OF" GROUPS, INDIVIDUAL RESTORATIONISTS, AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES MANAGING LOCAL PARKLAND AND SCHOOLYARDS. DURING 2022, ABOUT 56,014 NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS, AND HERBACEOUS PLANTS WERE DISTRIBUTED FROM THE NURSERY TO LOCAL FORESTS, MEADOWS, AND MAINTAINED LANDSCAPES. 143067 6330 TREE BANK HISPANIOLA: OPERATION OF A COMMUNITY TREE NURSERY AND ASSOCIATED FOREST-CONSERVATION AND TREE-PLANTING PROGRAMS ON THE DOMINICAN SIDE OF A PORTION OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - HAITI BORDER, TO SLOW DEFORESTATION AND HELP SMALL-HOLDER FARMERS INCREASE THEIR INCOMES. DURING 2022, ABOUT 65 FARMS PARTICIPATED. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES WERE SOMEWHAT CONSTRAINED BECAUSE OF UNUSUALLY HEAVY RAINS AND A LOCAL LABOR SHORTAGE BUT WE STILL MANAGED TO PRODUCE AND PLANT ABOUT 17,860 ORCHARD, TIMBER, AND LOCAL-ECOTYPE NATIVE TREE SEEDLINGS; EIGHT NATIVE SPECIES WERE REPRESENTED, ALL OF THEM PROBABLY IN DECLINE IN THE WILD. OUR FOREST CREDIT PROGRAM, IN WHICH OUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT PARTNER ORGANIZATION (THE ASOCIACION DE PRODUCTORES DE BOSQUE, LOS CEREZOS) EXTENDS LOW-COST CREDIT TO SMALL-HOLDER FARMERS IN EXCHANGE FOR PLEDGES TO CONSERVE FOREST - THAT CREDIT PROGRAM LENT ABOUT $35,150 TO 55 FARMS, IN EXCHANGE FOR PLEDGES COVERING ABOUT 358 ACRES OF FOREST. (THE PLEDGES ARE HELD BY OUR DOMINICAN PARTNER ORGANIZATION.) OUR 44.3-ACRE NATURE RESERVE, THE REGION'S ONLY COMMUNITY-OWNED NATURE RESERVE, IS PROTECTING THE HEADWATERS OF A VILLAGE WATER SUPPLY. OUR RISING FORESTS COFFEE PROGRAM IS REHABILITATING THE REGION'S SHADE-GROWN COFFEE, IN THE WAKE OF THE COFFEE LEAF-RUST EPIDEMIC OF 2014-15; THE EPIDEMIC KILLED VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE REGION'S COFFEE TREES. RISING FORESTS IS PRODUCING RUST-RESISTANT COFFEE TREES FOR PLANTING ON LOCAL FARMS, AS WELL AS COCOA TREES. BOTH COFFEE AND COCOA ARE HIGH-VALUE CROPS THAT GROW BEST UNDER FOREST CANOPY, SO OUR PROGRAM IS CREATING A POWERFUL ECONOMIC INCENTIVE TO CONSERVE FOREST, AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO RESTORE ADDITIONAL PATCHES OF FOREST FOR UNDERPLANTING WITH COFFEE AND COCOA. 71142 6878 DC-AREA FOREST AND MEADOW RESTORATION: ON-GOING WORK AT THE 20-ACRE MARIE BUTLER LEVEN PRESERVE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. DURING 2022, WE DONATED AND INSTALLED 466 NATIVE HERBACEOUS AND WOODY PLANTS. WE HOSTED A COMBINATION OF SMALL, REGULAR FIELD EVENTS FOR OUR OWN VOLUNTEERS, AND LARGE ONE-OFF EVENTS WITH STUDENT GROUPS AND EAGLE SCOUTS. ALL TOLD, WE ESTIMATE THAT 219 VOLUNTEERS INVESTED SOME 857 HOURS IN MARIE BUTLER LEVEN DURING 2022. SOME OF THIS LABOR WAS DEVOTED TO THE PLANTING EFFORTS JUST MENTIONED, BUT MOST OF IT WAS DEVOTED TO THE CONTROL OF INVASIVE ALIEN VEGETATION, WHICH IS A MAJOR PROBLEM AT THIS PARK AND MANY OTHERS IN OUR REGION.WE HOSTED SIMILAR PROJECTS AT FOUR OTHER FAIRFAX COUNTY PARKS. AT RUTHERFORD PARK, WE PLANTED ABOUT 280 HERBACEOUS AND WOODY PLANTS AND CUT AWAY INVASIVES OVER ABOUT HALF AN ACRE OF THE PARK'S RIPARIAN ZONE. WE ALSO WORKED WITH OUR FAIRFAX COUNTY COLLEAGUES TO IDENTIFY AREAS IN THE PARK THAT WOULD BENEFIT FROM A LARGER RIPARIAN RESTORTION PROJECT THAT SHOULD BEGIN OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.AT ELK LICK PARK, WE CONTINUED OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH FAIRFAX COUNTY BOTANISTS TO PROPAGATE AND RESTORE SEVERAL COUNTY-RARE MEADOW SPECIES, AS WELL AS VARIOUS COMMON MEADOW SPECIES. ALL TOLD, WE INSTALLED SOME 650 HERBACEOUS PLANTS HERE.AT POPLAR FORD PARK, WE WORKED WITH FAIRFAX COUNTY BOTANISTS TO DEVELOP A PROJECT SIMILAR TO THAT OF ELK LICK. OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, WE PUT IN ABOUT 2,290 MEADOW PLANTS AT POPLAR FORD, SOME RARE AND SOME COMMON.AT LAUREL HILL CENTRAL GREEN, WE CONTINUED OUR TREE-PLANTING EFFORTS BY INSTALLING ANOTHER 270 HICKORIES, AS WELL AS A NATIVE BUT LOCALLY UNCOMMON SPECIES, THE BUTTERNUT (JUGLANS CINEREA), AND A MIX OF SHRUBS AND A FEW GRAMINOIDS. WE ALSO WORKED TO SUPPRESS THE INVASIVE ALIEN VINES THAT HAD BEGUN TO COVER OUR METAL (AND THEREFORE EXPENSIVE) DEER PROTECTION FENCING. 482389 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 9 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 VA X X X CHRISTOPHER BRIGHT 7033333022 5101 I BACKLICK ROAD ANNANDALE VA 22003 CHRISTOPHER BRIGHT PRESIDENT 50.00 0.00 X X 60000 0 657 LISA BRIGHT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EMERITA 50.00 X X 43000 0 0 MARY SYLVIA CHAIR OF THE BOARD 0.50 X X 0 0 0 AMY FREY DIRECTOR 0.50 X 0 0 0 RICHARD HAEUBER DIRECTOR 0.50 X 0 0 0 ROBERT JORDAN DIRECTOR 0.50 X 0 0 0 CHRISTIAN LANSING DIRECTOR 0.50 X 0 0 0 KRISTINE LANSING DIRECTOR 0.50 X 0 0 0 ASHLEY TODD MATTOON DIRECTOR 0.50 X 0 0 0 103000 0 657 0 0 0 0 0 16150 200056 216206 NATIVE PLANT SALES 900099 353518 353518 353518 276 276 570000 353518 0 276 103657 79394 18197 6066 205209 161403 25149 18657 22168 18667 2373 1128 24580 19173 3441 1966 2172 1737 326 109 24984 19631 4488 865 10861 9110 1324 427 27696 19387 5539 2770 2624 2580 44 54726 53746 618 362 13869 13692 133 44 TREE BANK SUPPLIES 39636 39556 80 SUPPLIES 38189 37970 164 55 EQUPMENT 6383 6162 179 42 OTHER EXPENSE 181 181 576935 482389 62055 32491 153756 108405 554940 611414 123 517192 320467 216201 196725 924897 916667 2303 948 2303 948 X 922594 915719 922594 915719 924897 916667 -6935 60 0 X 0 0 0 X 230689 229158 266574 361479 216206 1304106 230689 229158 266574 361479 216206 1304106 218077 1086029 -181 1141 738 404 276 2378 -1082 -1082 1305402 576682 0.83190 0.82550 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 14444 3839 10605 402160 254040 148120 99870 62108 37762 718 480 238 196725 1 CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARRIBBEAN 0 9 PROGRAM SERVICE FOREST CONSERVATION 40203 0 9 0 0 0 9 40203 0 40203 0 0 0 0 0 0 PART I, LINE 2: WE MONITOR THE FUNDS THEMSELVES THROUGH BANK RECORDS AND RECEIPTS. WE MONITOR THEIR USE THROUGH MONTHLY REPORTS, PHOTOS, SITE SURVEY DATA, AND SITE VISITS ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR. PART III ACCOUNTING METHOD: MATTHEW BRIGHT OFFICER SON 47000 EMPLOYEE 0 KATHERINE ISAACSON OFFICER IN-LAW 47000 EMPLOYEE 0 PART V THE SON AND THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OF THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WERE EMPLOYEES OF THE ORGANIZATION DURING 2022. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 2 IN 2022: CHRISTOPHER BRIGHT, THE PRESIDENT, AND LISA BRIGHT, THEN THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WERE MARRIED. THEIR SON, MATTHEW BRIGHT, WAS MARRIED TO KATHERINE ISAACSON. BOTH MATTHEW AND KATHERINE WERE EMPLOYEES OF THE EARTH SANGHA. AMONG THE BOARD: AMY FREY WAS MARRIED TO RICHARD HAEUBER. CHRISTIAN LANSING WAS MARRIED TO KRISTINE LANSING. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 8B THERE WERE NO MEETINGS OF COMMITTEES ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNING BODY. NO SUCH COMMITTEES EXIST. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B OUR FORM 990 IS REVIEWED BY THE PRESIDENT ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD, AND BY OUR ACCOUNTANT. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C THE ORGANIZATION HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15A THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MUST APPROVE THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 18 UPON WRITTEN REQUEST, THE ORGANIZATION WILL MAKE THESE DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19 UPON WRITTEN REQUEST, THE ORGANIZATION WILL MAKE THESE DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE.