2020-05-06T08:54:01-07:00 2019-12-31 203992688 Bay Business Group 105 E Annandale Road Suite 215 Falls Church VA 22046 990 2019-01-01 541868546 Earth Sangha EART 7033333022 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 Chris Bright President 2020-05-06 true David Bradsher P00290229 7035330888 2019 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z X Chris Bright 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 418188 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 12 600 0 230689 229158 176485 186296 -181 1141 -1092 578 405901 417173 7392 2229 0 221557 237786 0 21298 128040 162711 356989 402726 48912 14447 788015 804983 357 2879 787658 802104 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 143466 186296 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). Our plants are used in our own projects and in those of other nonprofits, friends of groups, individual restorationists, and government agencies managing local parkland. During 2019, about 50,000 native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants were distributed from the nursery to local forests, meadows, and maintained landscapes. 95124 2229 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 2019, 70 farms participated. The nursery produced about 65,000 orchard, timber, and local-ecotype native tree seedlings; 13 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 $33,380 to 52 farms, in exchange for easements over about 318 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. 86652 DC-Area Forest Restoration:On-going work at the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in Fairfax County, Virginia. During 2019, about 255 people volunteered 798 hours of their time to help suppress invasive alien vegetation in the parks 17-acre forest, and to restore native vegetation. We suppressed a wide range of invasives, including trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous species. Control efforts extended throughout most of the park but are far from complete. We also put in over 2,700 locally native plants, produced at our Wild Plant Nursery. About 335 of these were shrubs and trees; the remainder were herbaceous species. 8331 333573 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 0 0 false 12 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 Chris Bright 7033333022 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 Chris Bright President 50.00 0.00 X X 60000 0 11293 Lisa Bright Exec Dir/Treas 50.00 0.00 X X 46000 0 2463 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 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Sylvia Board Chair 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Amy Frey Director 0.25 0.00 X 0 0 0 106000 13756 0 false false false 0 16150 213008 1015 229158 Native Plant Sales 110000 185946 185946 Speaking Honoraria 110000 350 350 186296 1090 1090 0 0 0 1066 1015 51 51 51 0 0 578 578 578 0 417173 186296 1719 0 0 2229 2229 0 119757 94179 16381 9197 0 94670 73861 13242 7567 2155 1810 237 108 6047 5046 683 318 15157 11810 2120 1227 0 0 2810 2810 0 0 0 20174 20174 0 1142 913 173 56 5071 3927 906 238 0 14889 10591 2889 1409 3263 3263 0 0 0 0 50365 49580 533 252 5209 1121 4043 45 Field Supplies 22675 22654 16 5 taxes and licenses 7746 6109 1197 440 Printing and Publications 5768 4403 1110 255 Tree Bank Health 5521 5521 18078 16382 1515 181 402726 333573 47855 21298 188818 249202 257379 249634 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 475041 168909 341818 306132 0 0 0 0 15 788015 804983 357 2879 357 2879 X 787658 802104 787658 802104 788015 804983 X 14447 -1 X false false false X 202590 228021 204303 230689 229158 1094761 0 0 202590 228021 204303 230689 229158 1094761 247805 846956 438 541 648 -181 1141 2587 467 -581 475 -1092 578 -153 0 1097195 186296 0.77190 0.79560 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 7078 118 6960 402160 115453 286707 65085 53290 11795 718 48 670 306132 true Central Amer/Caribbean 0 8 Program Services Forest Conservation 32466 8 8 32466 32466 Caribbean Forest Conservation 2229 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. Matthew Bright Officer Son 41000 Employee false Katherine Isaacson Officer in-law 41000 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 2019. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: 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. Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Decreases Rounding = -$1 Form 990, Part III, Line 4 The Organization had income of $185,946 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 honoraria for speaking engagements related to its mission. See Part III line 4a.The Organization had income of $578 from occasional sales of t-shirts bearing Earth Sangha designs, reported on line 11 of Part I. This income is not reported as unrelated business income under the exclusion for income from activities that are not regularly carried on (IRC 512(a)(1)). The t-shirts are sold at or near cost; the entire cost of t-shirt purchases is recorded as an expense at the time of purchase by the Organization; no tshirt inventory was purchased in 2019. form 990, Statement on the Value of In-Kind Donations During 2019, volunteers contributed approximately 10,000 hours of service to our Wild Plant Nursery and DC-area ecological restoration sites. We value this effort at $27.50 per hour, which is the current (2018) value of volunteer time for Virginia, as recognized by the Virginia Office on Volunteerism and Community Services (2018 is the most recent year for which a value was available). The total value of our 2019 volunteer effort was therefore $275,000.