EARTH SANGHA INC: Form 990, tax year 2018

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Organization
EARTH SANGHA INC (EIN 54-1868546)
Tax period
2018-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Filed
2019-05-01
IRS object ID
201931219349301143
Schema version
2018v3.1
Source
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DescDC-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 2018, over 47,000 native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants were distributed from the nursery to local forests, meadows, and maintained landscapes.Desc

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Expense$85,650ExpenseAmt
DescDC-Area Forest Restoration Outside Stream Buffers:On-going work at the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in Fairfax County, Virginia. During 2018, about 300 people volunteered 925 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 6,000 locally native plants, produced at our Wild Plant Nursery. About 170 of these were shrubs and trees; the remainder were herbaceous species.Desc

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DescTropical 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 2018, 65 farms participated. The nursery produced about 60,000 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 extends low-cost credit to small-holder farmers in exchange for forest conservation easements, lent $29,830 to 44 farms, in exchange for easements over about 257 acres of forest. 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, which buys small-holder native-shade coffee, is protecting about 23 acres of forest; during 2018, Rising Forests continued to help local farmers recover from a devastating leaf-rust epidemic that killed virtually all of their coffee trees during 2014-15; about 22,000 rust-resistant coffee trees were planted under native forest canopy. Also during 2018, we expanded our Rising Forests Cocoa project, by growing and distributing cocoa trees for planting under native canopy. About 3,000 cocoa trees were distributed in 2018. Our cocoa effort began in 2016. Since coffee and cocoa are high-value shade-tolerant crops, Rising Forests creates a powerful economic incentive to conserve forest. As part of our Rising Forests effort, we continue to restore additional patches of forest for underplanting with coffee and cocoa.Desc
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Ashley Todd Mattoon
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Robert Jordan
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Schedule A IRS990ScheduleA

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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years$191,896CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$202,590CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$228,021CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$204,303CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year$230,689CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$1,057,499TotalAmt

Tax Rev Levied Orgnztnl Bnft170 TaxRevLeviedOrgnztnlBnft170Grp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$0TotalAmt

Govt Furn Srvc Fclts Vl170 GovtFurnSrvcFcltsVl170Grp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$0TotalAmt

Total Calendar Year170 TotalCalendarYear170Grp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years$191,896CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$202,590CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$228,021CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$204,303CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year$230,689CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$1,057,499TotalAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Substantial Contributors Tot$215,394SubstantialContributorsTotAmt
Public Support Total170$842,105PublicSupportTotal170Amt

Gross Investment Income170 GrossInvestmentIncome170Grp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years$419CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$438CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$541CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$648CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year-$181CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$1,865TotalAmt

Unrelated Business Net Incm170 UnrelatedBusinessNetIncm170Grp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Current Tax Year Minus4 Years-$218CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$467CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years-$581CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$475CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year-$1,092CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total-$949TotalAmt

Other Income170 OtherIncome170Grp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total$0TotalAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Support$1,058,415TotalSupportAmt
Public Support CY1700.79560PublicSupportCY170Pct
Public Support PY1700.77190PublicSupportPY170Pct
Thirty Thr Pct Suprt Tests CY170Yes (X)ThirtyThrPctSuprtTestsCY170Ind

Schedule B IRS990ScheduleB

Schedule D IRS990ScheduleD

Leasehold Improvements LeaseholdImprovementsGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$402,160OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation$69,272DepreciationAmt
Book Value$332,888BookValueAmt

Equipment EquipmentGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Other Cost Or Other Basis$59,907OtherCostOrOtherBasisAmt
Depreciation$50,977DepreciationAmt
Book Value$8,930BookValueAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Land Buildings$341,818TotalBookValueLandBuildingsAmt

Schedule F IRS990ScheduleF

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Grant Records MaintainedYes (true)GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Account Activities Outside US AccountActivitiesOutsideUSGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
RegionCentral Amer/CaribbeanRegionTxt
Offices0OfficesCnt
Employee7EmployeeCnt
Type Of Activities ConductedProgram ServicesTypeOfActivitiesConductedTxt
Specific Services ProvidedForest ConservationSpecificServicesProvidedTxt
Region Total Expenditures$33,808RegionTotalExpendituresAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Subtotal Employees7SubtotalEmployeesCnt
Total Employee7TotalEmployeeCnt
Subtotal Spent$33,808SubtotalSpentAmt
Total Spent$33,808TotalSpentAmt

Grants To Org Outside US GrantsToOrgOutsideUSGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Purpose Of GrantForest ConservationPurposeOfGrantTxt
Cash Grant$7,392CashGrantAmt
Manner Of Cash DisbursementElectronicMannerOfCashDisbursementTxt
Valuation Method UsedCash PaidValuationMethodUsedDesc
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Other Org1TotalOtherOrgCnt
Transfer To Foreign CorpfalseTransferToForeignCorpInd
Interest In Foreign TrustfalseInterestInForeignTrustInd
Foreign Corp OwnershipfalseForeignCorpOwnershipInd
Passive Foreign Investmest CofalsePassiveForeignInvestmestCoInd
Foreign PartnershipfalseForeignPartnershipInd
Boycott CountriesfalseBoycottCountriesInd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (3 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDescExplanationExplanationTxt
Part I, Line 2 - Grantmakers Explanation For Monitoring Use of Funds Outside USWe 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 AccountingCash
Part I, Line 3f - Investments and ExpendituresAll funding is expenditure.

Schedule L IRS990ScheduleL

Bus Tr Involve Interested Prsn BusTrInvolveInterestedPrsnGrp (2 entries)

Relationship DescriptionRelationshipDescriptionTxtTransactionTransactionAmtTransactionTransactionDescSharing Of RevenuesSharingOfRevenuesInd
Matthew Bright
Officer Son$35,000Employeefalse
Katherine Isaacson
Officer in-law$35,000Employeefalse

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Form And Line ReferenceSchedule L, Part V Supplemental InformationFormAndLineReferenceDesc
ExplanationThe son and the daughter-in-law of the President and Executive Director/Treasurer were employees of the organization during 2018.ExplanationTxt

Schedule O IRS990ScheduleO

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (9 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDescExplanationExplanationTxt
Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services DescriptionOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: 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 2018, 65 farms participated. The nursery produced about 60,000 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 extends low-cost credit to small-holder farmers in exchange for forest conservation easements, lent $29,830 to 44 farms, in exchange for easements over about 257 acres of forest. 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, which buys small-holder native-shade coffee, is protecting about 23 acres of forest; during 2018, Rising Forests continued to help local farmers recover from a devastating leaf-rust epidemic that killed virtually all of their coffee trees during 2014-15; about 22,000 rust-resistant coffee trees were planted under native forest canopy. Also during 2018, we expanded our Rising Forests Cocoa project, by growing and distributing cocoa trees for planting under native canopy. About 3,000 cocoa trees were distributed in 2018. Our cocoa effort began in 2016. Since coffee and cocoa are high-value shade-tolerant crops, Rising Forests creates a powerful economic incentive to conserve forest. As part of our Rising Forests effort, we continue to restore additional patches of forest for underplanting with coffee and cocoa. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: DC-Area Meditation: The practice of traditional Buddhist meditation in a nondenominational format, in the Washington, DC, area. During 2018, some 20 people attended at least one sitting; there were eight regular attendees. We stopped holding these sessions in June 2018, because of an increase in rent for the meditation space. We have no plans to resume.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 2: Description of Business or Family Relationship of Officers, Directors, EtThe President and Executive Director/Treasurer of Earth Sangha are married; their son and his spouse are also employees of the organization. See Schedule L.Two of the volunteer directors are married to each other.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 8: Explanation of No Contemporaneously Documentation of MeetingsLine 8b: No such committees were in place during the year.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review ProcessForm 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 ConflictsRelevant personnel must sign an annual disclosure.
Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly AvailableAppropriate documents were made available upon request.
Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other IncreasesRounding = $3
Form 990, Part III, Line 4The Organization had income of $176,073 from sales of native plants grown in the Wild Plant Nursery and $412 from sales of coffee grown through the Tropical Agroforestry program. 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 lines 4a and 4c.The Organization had a loss of ($1,092) 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.
form 990, Statement on the Value of In-Kind DonationsDuring 2018, volunteers contributed approximately 10,000 hours of service to our Wild Plant Nursery and DC-area ecological restoration sites. We value this effort at $26.75 per hour, which is the current (2017) value of volunteer time for Virginia, as recognized by the Virginia Office on Volunteerism and Community Services (2017 is the most recent year for which a value was available). The total value of our 2018 volunteer effort was therefore $267,500.

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