2020-02-12T12:53:58-08:00 2019-06-30 455565460 Goranson and Associates Inc 717 College Avenue First Floor Santa Rosa CA 95404 990 2018-07-01 680328590 Landpaths LAND 7075447284 618 Fourth Street 217 Santa Rosa CA 95404 Craig Anderson Executive Director 2020-02-12 true Susan E Goranson P00049464 7075421256 2018 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Craig Anderson 618 Fourth Street 217 Santa Rosa CA 95404 1488431 false false X www.landpaths.org X 1994 CA LandPaths' mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities. 8 8 30 1700 0 1573172 1316712 444697 108776 47741 62943 0 2065610 1488431 0 0 975072 1217084 0 88123 452275 398895 1427347 1615979 638263 -127548 9510049 9458091 170407 227340 9339642 9230751 X LandPaths' mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities. false false 442759 436206 Rooting Youth in Nature: LandPaths creates models for impactful nature-based youth experiences. We draw heavily on research finding that multi-day programs and consistent mentors are key factors that increase the long term impact on a childs relationship and attitudes toward nature. In Our Own BackYard is a nature awareness program built to enhance student connection and confidence in the outdoors. In Our Own BackYard, school-based, provides an in-depth experience with 4-full day field trips, and 2 classroom visits over the course of the school year, averaging 20 hours in the field per student. In Our Own BackYard curriculum correlates with many of the state and federal science, math, language arts and physical education standards, and anticipates strong alignment with Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. In Our Own BackYard program serves approximately 700 students, is offered for free to schools with over 50% of the student body qualifying for free and reduce lunch.In 2012, LandPaths launched a teen-focused program, Inspired Forward. Built on the In Our Own BackYard model, Inspired Forward is a field-based, multi-day program. Inspired Forward is an unique offering to youth-at-risk providing experiential learning opportunities and tackling teen issues of gang prevention, drugs and other challenges through developing a strong sense of belonging, confidence, and leadership while role-modeling positive choices. Inspired Forward is offered free to schools and partner organizations serving low-income communities.In 2019, due to demand, LandPaths again expanded Owl Camp, this time to a new site in north County, outside Healdsburg. LandPaths Owl Camp is a nature-based summer emersion program for kids from 6 to 13 years old. Owl Camp offers a rich place for children to explore the natural world, test out new ideas and experience the freedom of child-directed, open-ended learning through nature exploration and play guided in small groups by expert educators. Each summer as children work through how to build a fort, experiment with art, or discover native plants and animals, they are exercising their brains in important waysand building a memorable connection with the land in every step. LandPaths aggressive scholarship program offers tuition assistance to at least 30% of campers every year.In 2016 LandPaths expanded its camp offerings to include a teen-focused Backpacking Basics, and Teen RiverTrek. Consistent with LandPaths youth programs, these camps immerse youth in nature and develop outdoor skills, such as how to pack a backpack, paddling, camp cooking, fire starting, filtering water all the way down to caring for your feet and hands (and blisters). These experiences and skill development, build participant sense of belonging (with nature and with peers) and confidence in continuing outdoor activities and exploration for a lifetime. 347346 249070 Growing Community with Nature/Community Care: LandPaths champions community conservation, where residents participate in actions that support a healthy communitynature and people alike. People Powered Parks is our approach to land stewardship, on our own lands and lands we assist in managing for Agency partners. LandPaths owns six unique preserves in Sonoma County: Bohemia Ecological Preserve and Grove of the Old Trees in West County, Rancho Mark West and Calistoga Road in northeast Santa Rosa, and Riddell and Fitch Mountain Preserves in the Healdsburg area. Totaling over 1,200 protected acres of land in Sonoma County, the properties are diverse in habitat values, from old growth redwoods, serpentine soils and associated plant community, madrone and oak woodland, to salmon bearing creeks. Our Preserves originate with shared values between the landowner and LandPathsvalues of land stewardship and community engagement. LandPaths actively takes care of these lands with on-going community investments to remove non-native plant species and planting natives to improve native wildlife habitat, repairing old ranch roads to improve water quality and steelhead spawning habitat, and building trails for future public use. In a unique agreement with the City of Healdsburg, after 3 years, Fitch Mountain will transfer to the City of Healdsburg becoming a wildland City Preserve.LandPaths People Powered Parks model has also assisted agencies from City, Regional to State Parks, transition properties to public parks. LandPaths currently assists with: (1) Bayer Farm, LandPaths farm-based park in the lowest income area of Santa Rosa in partnership with the City of Santa Rosa, serving 40 families with garden allotments, and over 1,000 community residents and school-age youth, many visiting repeatedly throughout the year, and (2) Healdsburg Ridge, with 155 acres of natural open space, with the City of Healdsburg. People Powered Parks foster individual and community commitments to nature and community.TrekSonoma combines our love of bringing people outdoors with our interest in linking land (public and private) together, creating wildlife and community linkages. These multi-day experiences cultivate a group conversation, learning and connection to the landscape, its diversity of habitats and land uses, land stewardship, people and each otherbuilding blocks to a sustainable community. LandPaths is committed to building a network of routes where we all can walk-roll-paddle, where our children can do this with their schoolmates, where we are welcomed as we pass through, and where we can refocus energy on healthy land, healthy people, and healthy community. In 2016 LandPaths led a Russian River Descent to kick-off an agency, non-profit, community collaboration, the Russian River Confluence. The Russian River Descent applied LandPaths TrekSonoma model, to bring agency representatives, and non-profit leadership together to paddle down the Russian River, witness firsthand the beauty of the River as well as the challenges, and develop personal relationships with the River and each other. These relationships will underpin decisions about the activities, policies and implementation strategies influencing the Russian Rivers future. Following the Descent, in 2018, LandPaths received a technical assistant grant from the National Park Service to lead a collaboration of County agencies, organizations, landowners and interested community members to form a TrekSonoma Collaborative to advance this Countywide concept. 259662 365443 Branching out Conservation for Everyone: LandPaths is Sonoma Countys lead public access organization, working County-wide and providing over 300 free to the public Outings annually with over 5,000 participantsall with an exemplary safety record. Diverse by design, LandPaths Outings and Vamos Afuera, include themed hikes, farm tours, camp outs, kayak trips, Spanish-language and stewardship projects allowing residents and visitors to discover the Countys beauty and take part in its healing. We tap our communitys local knowledge and experience in creating the Outings and shaping engaging programs. Our passion is to invite all Sonoma County residents outdoorsincluding the most reluctant or unfamiliarsparking their curiosity in nature through positive and relevant nature-based experiences.In 2007, LandPaths broke ground at Bayer Farm setting off an avalanche of firsts. Bayer Farm was our first urban park project, our first partnership with the City of Santa Rosa, our first partnership with the Latino Community, and our first community garden. Since that time Bayer Farm has grown into a farm-based community center with programs ranging from iREAD Outside, a nature-based early childhood literacy program to Summer Free Lunch. In 2017 we were invited to partner with Sonoma County Regional Parks to create another community garden based on the Bayer Farm model at Andy Unity Park. 235467 1285234 true true false false false false true false false false true false false true false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 22 0 true 30 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 8 8 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA X Sheridan Rapolla 7075447284 618 Fourth Street santa rosa CA 95404 Beth Wyatt Chair 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Naomi Ramsden Secretary 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Steven Woodside Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tim Choate Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Susan Shaw Assistant Chair 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Craig Hazel Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Power Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Ellis Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Craig Anderson Executive Direc 40.00 0.00 X 131186 0 29783 131186 29783 1 false true false 0 806717 509995 1316712 Contract Revenue Miscellaneous Revenue 100 100 Program Fees 108676 108676 108776 62943 12806 50137 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1488431 121582 50137 0 0 0 0 160969 112338 40251 8380 0 839269 623130 175934 40205 0 134861 86582 37772 10507 81985 60371 17533 4081 0 0 0 0 0 0 100124 63710 30262 6152 0 20602 9152 8561 2889 0 0 37378 82 37296 35169 32334 861 1974 0 0 0 0 53638 41571 12067 13979 50 13929 Program expenses 78957 78317 38 602 Other operating expenses 36762 22347 11963 2452 telecommunications 20258 1038 19220 supplies 2028 2028 0 154212 -165093 10881 1615979 1285234 242622 88123 145033 202249 250066 78440 21000 10500 168002 108485 0 0 0 0 21848 86535 7034274 178893 6747992 6855381 0 0 0 0 2156108 2116501 9510049 9458091 123252 161027 47155 66313 170407 227340 X 3024947 3235312 4997447 4603191 1317248 1392248 9339642 9230751 9510049 9458091 -127548 49294 -30637 X false true X true false X 865970 1151374 1745210 1573172 1316712 6652438 0 0 865970 1151374 1745210 1573172 1316712 6652438 0 6652438 55076 24673 55622 22375 50137 207883 0 0 6860321 0.96970 0.96730 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED X X X false false 6202541 6202541 47000 9532 37468 505268 23946 481322 210521 145415 65106 68944 68944 6855381 2116501 X 1507088 49294 49294 1457794 30637 30637 1488431 1615979 1615979 1615979 Part V, Line 4: Intended uses of the endowment fund. SUSTAINABILITY Part X : FIN48 Footnote LandPaths is exempt from Federal and State Income taxes under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and California Franchise Tax Board Code Section 23701d. Therefore, no provision for income taxes has been made in the accompanying financial statements. In addition, the Internal Revenue Service has determined LandPaths is not a private foundation within the meaning of Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.Management of LandPaths considers the likelihood of changes by taxing authorities in its filed tax returns and recognizes a liability for or discloses potential significant changes if management believes it is more likely than not for a change to occur, including changes to LandPaths status as a not-for-profit entity. Management believes LandPaths met the requirements to maintain its tax-exempt status and has no income subject to unrelated business income tax; therefore no provision for income taxes has been provided in these financial statements. LandPaths tax returns for the past three years are subject to examination by tax authorities, and may change upon examination. false false false false false false false false false false Craig Anderson Executive Direc 131186 29783 160969 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Other community services and programs Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The 990 draft is reviewed first by staff and the Finance Committee. Once changes (if any) are completed, the draft is approved by the Board of Directors either upon review at a Board Meeting or via email. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts There is a standing line item on the monthly Board of Directors agenda in which the Board Chair asks at the beginning of the meeting if there are any conflicts of interest on any agenda item. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management The annual process for determining compensation is as follows: The Chair of the Board of Directors shall annually evaluate the Executive Director on his performance, and ask for his input on matters of performance and compensation. The compensation will be set once every three years.Board Approval. The Compensation Committee will obtain research and information to make a recommendation to the full board for the compensation (salary and benefits) of the Executive Director (and other highly compensated employees or consultants) based on a review of comparability data. For example, the Compensation Committee will secure data that documents compensation levels and benefits for similarly qualified individuals in comparable positions at similar organizations. This data may include the following:1.Salary and benefit compensation studies by independent sources;2.Written job offers for positions at similar organizations;3.Documented telephone calls about similar positions at both nonprofit and for-profit organizations; and4.Information obtained from the IRS Form 990 filings of similar organizations.Concurrent Documentation. To approve the compensation for the Executive Director (and other highly compensated employees and consultants) the Board must document how it reached its decisions, including the data on which it relied, in minutes of the meeting during which the compensation was approved. Documentation will include:a) A description of the compensation and benefits and the date it was approved; b) The members of the Board who were present during the discussion about compensation and benefits, and the results of the vote; c)A description of the comparability data relied upon and how the data was obtained; and d)Any actions taken (such as abstaining from discussion and vote) with respect to consideration of the compensation by anyone who is otherwise a member of the board but who had a conflict of interest with respect to the decision on the compensation and benefits.Independence in Setting Compensation: The Chair of the Board of Directors, who is a volunteer and not compensated by the Nonprofit, will operate independently without undue influence from the Executive Director. No member of the Compensation Committee will be a staff member, the relative of a staff member, or have any relationship with staff that could present a conflict of interest. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Available Upon request