2022-04-28T12:05:18-07:00 2021-12-31 203992688 Bay Business Group LLC 6402 Arlington Blvd Ste 900 Falls Church VA 22042 990 2021-01-01 541868546 Earth Sangha EART 7033333022 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 Christopher J Bright President 2022-04-28 true Christopher Bright 999009999 David Bradsher P00290229 7035330888 3 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2021 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Christopher J Bright 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 586247 false 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 11 730 0 266574 361479 232419 223164 474 467 10 0 499477 585110 1136 45000 0 257132 297723 0 29655 164341 198765 422609 541488 76868 43622 926308 924897 47336 2303 878972 922594 X The mission of the Earth Sangha shall be conservation as a psychological, social, and ecological practice. The Earth Sangha shall try to help people develop healthier connections to the lands and waters around them. Wherever the Earth Sangha works, its ecological practice shall focus on preserving or restoring local native-plant species and the natural communities of which those species form a part. false false 188034 223164 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 2021, about 53,395 native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants were distributed from the nursery to local forests, meadows, and maintained landscapes. 156279 45000 Tropical Agroforestry: Tree Bank Hispaniola ProgramOperation 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 2021, about 70 farms participated. Program activities were somewhat constrained because of the epidemic but we still managed to produce about 22,000 orchard, timber, and local-ecotype native tree seedlings; nine 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 Asociacin de Productores de Bosque, Los Cerezos) extends low-cost credit to small-holder farmers in exchange for forest conservation easements, lent about $32,000 to 50 farms, in exchange for easements over about 320 acres of forest. (The easements are held by our Dominican partner organization.) Our 44.3-acre nature reserve, the regions only community-owned nature reserve, is protecting the headwaters of a village water supply. Our Rising Forests Coffee program is rehabilitating the regions shade-grown coffee, in the wake of the coffee leaf-rust epidemic of 2014-15; the epidemic killed virtually all of the regions 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. 103382 DC-Area Forest Restoration:On-going work at the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in Fairfax County, Virginia. During 2021, the epidemic continued to stall much of our field work, but we still managed considerably more than we had in 2020. All told, 148 people donated 489 hours of their time to our projects at the Preserve in 2021 (as opposed to 84 people and 254 hours in 2020). We worked to suppress invasive alien vegetation in the parks 17-acre forest, and to restore native vegetation. In areas where we seemed to have broken the grip of the invasives, we put in about 1,785 locally native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, produced at our Wild Plant Nursery.We did similar work at three other Fairfax County parks: Rutherford, Elklick, and Laurel Hill Central Green. At Rutherford, we focused on the removal of invasives from about an acre of floodplain. At Elklick, we worked with the Fairfax County Park Authority to reestablish a range of meadow species in suitable habitat, including several locally rare species that we are propagating from surviving local populations. This is a multi-year project. And at Laurel Hill Central Green, we are working with the Park Authority to reestablish oak and hickory in a half-acre forest fragment that has lost most of its oak / hickory cover, and to reestablish oak and hickory in an occasionally mown field of about an acre and a half. 10380 458075 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false true 1 0 true 11 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 9 7 true false false false false false false true false false false false true true true true true false false false VA X X X Christopher Bright 7033333022 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 Christopher J Bright President 50.00 0.00 X X 60000 0 3006 Lisa Y Bright Exec Dir/Treas 50.00 0.00 X X 43000 0 4465 Christian Lansing Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kristine Lansing Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Haeuber Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ashley Todd Mattoon Director 0.30 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Jordan Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Sylvia Board Chair 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Amy Frey Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 103000 7471 0 false false false 0 X 62357 299122 574 361479 Native Plant Sales 110000 222964 222964 Speaking Honoraria 110000 200 200 223164 404 404 0 0 0 1200 1137 63 63 63 0 0 0 0 585110 223227 404 0 0 45000 45000 0 110470 86503 15301 8666 0 150983 117767 21137 12079 3375 2835 371 169 13451 11299 1480 672 19444 15167 2722 1555 0 0 3235 3235 0 0 0 33266 33266 0 1821 1498 246 77 6752 5497 941 314 0 30874 21899 6023 2952 0 0 0 0 0 51874 50945 586 343 7691 7510 136 45 Field Supplies 30302 30302 Tree Bank Farmer Support 8406 8406 Credit Card Fees 6409 4154 2255 Printing and Publications 6311 5157 865 289 11824 10870 715 239 541488 458075 53758 29655 272880 153756 385372 554940 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 481943 265742 267477 216201 564 0 0 0 0 15 0 926308 924897 1129 2303 46207 47336 2303 X 878972 922594 878972 922594 926308 924897 43622 X false false false X 204303 230689 229158 266574 361479 1292203 0 0 204303 230689 229158 266574 361479 1292203 223417 1068786 648 -181 1141 738 404 2750 475 -1092 578 10 -29 -263 -263 1294661 186296 0.82550 0.78100 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 14444 2394 12050 402160 207815 194345 64621 55197 9424 718 336 382 216201 true Central Amer/Caribbean 0 8 Program Services Forest Conservation 89820 8 8 89820 89820 CenAmer/Carib Farming Truck 45000 Electronic Cash Paid 1 false false false false false false Part I, Line 2 - Grantmakers Explanation For Monitoring Use of Funds Outside US We monitor the funds themselves through bank records and receipts. We monitor their use through monthly reports, photos, site-survey data, and site visits, usually twice a year. Part I, Line 3f - Method of Accounting Cash Part I, Line 3f - Investments and Expenditures All funding is expenditure. In 2021, expenditures included a grant of $45,000 to purchase a 2018 Toyota Hilux pickup truck for the Tree Bank nursery. The pickup cost USD $45,000 more than we had hoped to pay but inflation is a big problem in the Dominican Republic, and trucks are expensive there to begin with. This pickup is replacing the nurserys original pickup, which is now 23 years old and in need of expensive repairs practically every month. Matthew Bright Officer Son 44000 Employee false Katherine Isaacson Officer in-law 43000 Employee false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information The son and the daughter-in-law of the President and Executive Director were employees of the organization during 2021. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: DC-Area Forest Restoration:On-going work at the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in Fairfax County, Virginia. During 2021, the epidemic continued to stall much of our field work, but we still managed considerably more than we had in 2020. All told, 148 people donated 489 hours of their time to our projects at the Preserve in 2021 (as opposed to 84 people and 254 hours in 2020). We worked to suppress invasive alien vegetation in the parks 17-acre forest, and to restore native vegetation. In areas where we seemed to have broken the grip of the invasives, we put in about 1,785 locally native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, produced at our Wild Plant Nursery.We did similar work at three other Fairfax County parks: Rutherford, Elklick, and Laurel Hill Central Green. At Rutherford, we focused on the removal of invasives from about an acre of floodplain. At Elklick, we worked with the Fairfax County Park Authority to reestablish a range of meadow species in suitable habitat, including several locally rare species that we are propagating from surviving local populations. This is a multi-year project. And at Laurel Hill Central Green, we are working with the Park Authority to reestablish oak and hickory in a half-acre forest fragment that has lost most of its oak / hickory cover, and to reestablish oak and hickory in an occasionally mown field of about an acre and a half. Form 990, Part VI, Line 2: Description of Business or Family Relationship of Officers, Directors, Et The President and Executive Director of the Earth Sangha are married; their son and his spouse are also employees of the organization. See Schedule L.In addition, the organization's board of directors includes two sets of married individuals. Form 990, Part VI, Line 8: Explanation of No Contemporaneously Documentation of Meetings Line 8b: No such committees were in place during the year. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Form 990 is reviewed by the President, on behalf of the Board, and by our accountant. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts Relevant personnel must sign an annual disclosure. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Appropriate documents were made available upon request. Form 990, Part III, Line 4 The Organization had income of $222,964 from sales of native plants grown in the Wild Plant Nursery. This income is reported on line 9 of Part I. These sales are directly related to the Organization's tax-exempt purpose. See Part III line 4a.The organization received $200 in honoraria for speaking engagements related to its mission. See Part III line 4a. form 990, Statement on the Value of In-Kind Donations During 2021, our volunteer program returned to something like its pre-epidemic level. We still held only a few large volunteer events (more than 20 people), but we were able to welcome people back into the program for routine work, both at our field sites and at our DC-area Wild Plant Nursery. During 2021, some 730 people donated about 3,200 hours of their time to our restoration work in the DC area. We value volunteer effort at $29.14 per hour, which is the 2020 hourly value of volunteer time in Virginia, according to Independent Sector (2020 is the most recent year for which a value was available). The total value of our 2021 volunteer effort was therefore $93,248. Part VIII Line 1e - Detail of Government Grants Earth Sangha received government funds as follows:Fairfax County Virginia $16,150US Small Business Administration PPP Loan Forgiveness $46,207total Government grants Part VIII line 1e: $62,357