2019-05-01T13:20:30-07:00 2018-12-31 203992688 Bay Business Group 105 E Annandale Road Suite 215 Falls Church VA 22046 990 2018-01-01 541868546 Earth Sangha EART 7037644830 10123 Commonwealth Blvd Fairfax VA 22032 Chris Bright President 2019-05-01 true David Bradsher P00290229 7035330888 2018 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Chris Bright 10123 Commonwealth Blvd Fairfax VA 22032 408811 false false X www.earthsangha.org X 1997 VA Conservation, ecological restoration, and helping people develop healthier connections to the lands and waters around them. 7 5 6 600 0 512303 230689 137692 176485 648 -181 475 -1092 651118 405901 6035 7392 0 218097 221557 0 18621 103617 128040 327749 356989 323369 48912 740834 788015 2091 357 738743 787658 X Conservation, ecological restoration, and helping people develop healthier connections to the lands and waters around them. false false 128016 176485 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 2018, over 47,000 native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants were distributed from the nursery to local forests, meadows, and maintained landscapes. 85650 DC-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. 84009 7392 412 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. 9306 306981 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 false false false true false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 6 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 7 5 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 7037644830 10123 Commonwealth Blvd Fairfax VA 22032 Chris Bright President 50.00 0.00 X X 59600 0 10450 Lisa Bright Exec Dir/Treas 50.00 0.00 X X 42350 0 3844 Richard Haeuber Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ashley Todd Mattoon Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Jordan Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Sylvia Chair 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Amy Frey Director 0.25 0.00 X 0 0 0 101950 14294 0 false false false 0 16150 214539 230689 Forest Coffee Sales 110000 412 412 Native Plant Sales 110000 176073 176073 176485 830 830 0 0 0 1011 -1011 -1011 -1011 0 0 807 1899 -1092 -1092 0 405901 175474 -262 0 0 7392 7392 0 116244 91868 15447 8929 0 81117 63271 11357 6489 2100 1764 231 105 8109 7005 666 438 13987 10910 1958 1119 0 0 1950 1560 293 97 0 0 0 17776 17592 117 67 0 1273 1190 54 29 4212 3375 629 208 0 1562 1523 29 10 1002 1002 0 0 0 0 50188 49543 405 240 9925 11126 -1246 45 Printing and Publications 6254 5502 564 188 Field Equipment 4849 4842 5 2 Field Containers 3641 3641 Field Soil and Sand 3595 3595 21813 20280 878 655 356989 306981 31387 18621 135566 188818 216478 257379 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 462067 120249 388790 341818 0 0 0 0 0 740834 788015 2091 357 2091 357 X 738743 787658 738743 787658 740834 788015 X 48912 3 X false false false X 191896 202590 228021 204303 230689 1057499 0 0 191896 202590 228021 204303 230689 1057499 215394 842105 419 438 541 648 -181 1865 -218 467 -581 475 -1092 -949 0 1058415 0.79560 0.77190 X 402160 69272 332888 59907 50977 8930 341818 true Central Amer/Caribbean 0 7 Program Services Forest Conservation 33808 7 7 33808 33808 Forest Conservation 7392 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 35000 Employee false Katherine Isaacson Officer in-law 35000 Employee false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information The son and the daughter-in-law of the President and Executive Director/Treasurer were employees of the organization during 2018. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER 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, Et The 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 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 Increases Rounding = $3 Form 990, Part III, Line 4 The 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 Donations During 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.