2015-04-30T06:45:09-07:00 2014-12-31 Bay Business Group 105 E Annandale Road Suite 215 Falls Church VA 22046 990 2014-01-01 541868546 Earth Sangha EART 7037644830 10123 Commonwealth Blvd Fairfax VA 22032 Chris Bright President 2015-04-30 true David Bradsher P00290229 7035330888 2014 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z 283403 false false X www.earthsangha.org X 1997 VA Socially engaged Buddhism & ecological restoration. 9 7 5 600 0 200930 191896 82011 90514 407 419 42 -218 283390 282611 5775 0 160266 185518 0 12603 101752 92235 262018 283528 21372 -917 192560 192516 1183 2056 191377 190460 X Socially engaged Buddhism & ecological restoration. false false 92730 75909 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 2014, over 12,000 native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants were distributed from the nursery to local natural areas. 82889 5775 14605 Tropical Agroforestry: Operation of a community tree nursery and associated forest-conservation programs on the Dominican side of a portion of the Dominican Republic Haiti border, to slow deforestation and help impoverished farmers increase their incomes. During 2014, about 40 farms participated. The nursery produced about 25,000 orchard, timber, and local-ecotype native tree seedlings; 11 native species were represented, all of them probably in decline in the wild. Our Forest Credit program, in which our local independent partner organization makes low-cost credit available to small-holder farmers in exchange for forest conservation easements, lent $19,750 to 40 farms, in exchange for easements over about 150 acres of forest. Our Parcelas Sembradas program pays a small annual stipend to eight of our farms for maintaining and monitoring experimental forest plantings; during 2014, the program paid out a total of $1,078. Two of our poorest farms are benefitting from our Parcela Agro-Ecolgica, a sophisticated polyculture system designed to increase soil fertility on about one acre, in exchange for additional conservation easements. Our Rising Forests Coffee program, which buys small-holder native-shade coffee, is protecting about 20 acres of forest; in 2014, Rising Forests paid our farmers about twice the usual Fair Trade rate. Our 44.3-acre nature reserve, the regions only community-owned nature reserve, is protecting the headwaters of a village water supply. 24843 DC-Area Forest Restoration Outside Stream Buffers:On-going work at the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in Fairfax County, Virginia. During 2014, we suppressed invasive alien vegetation in several parts of the parks 17-acre forest. We cleared invasive vine curtains, removed invasive groundlayer, cut invasive woody understory, and downed invasive tree species. All together, total area cleared of invasives now probably amounts to about 6.5 acres. We also began reestablishing several species of native grass along a section of forest edge, with stock grown at our Wild Plant Nursery. 54963 255425 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 false true 0 0 false 5 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false 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 false 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 58703 0 3279 Lisa Bright Exec Dir/Treas 50.00 0.00 X X 38277 0 2623 Bruce Engelbert Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Burke Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Haeuber Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Cynthia Irmer Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ashley Todd Mattoon Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Weigl Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Jordan Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Sylvia Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Peter Forbes Director 0.25 0.00 X 0 0 0 Amy Frey Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 96980 5902 0 false false false 0 X 32410 159486 191896 Forest Coffee Sales 14605 14605 Native Plant Sales 75909 75909 90514 419 419 0 0 0 0 0 0 574 792 -218 -218 0 282611 90514 201 X 0 0 5775 5775 0 102882 88542 8146 6194 0 68449 58876 5466 4107 0 1475 1281 100 94 12712 11059 890 763 0 0 1750 1523 122 105 0 0 0 11791 11658 71 62 0 1510 1340 56 114 3055 2730 170 155 0 2433 2381 28 24 2182 2182 0 0 0 0 5691 5134 308 249 10529 10529 Field Soil and Sand 5309 5309 Printing and Publications 4552 4163 22 367 Postage and Shipping 3310 3118 104 88 Field Watering Equipment 3132 3132 36991 36693 17 281 283528 255425 15500 12603 40801 38508 139431 139850 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64836 50830 11852 14006 0 0 0 476 152 0 192560 192516 1183 2056 1183 2056 X 191377 190460 191377 190460 192560 192516 -917 X false false false X 151255 139519 219969 200930 191896 903569 0 0 151255 139519 219969 200930 191896 903569 173965 729604 1229 472 306 407 419 2833 174 20 140 42 -218 158 0 906560 308206 0.80480 0.83490 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 64836 50830 14006 14006 true Central Amer/Caribbean 0 3 Program Services Forest Conservation 30451 3 3 30451 30451 CenAmer/Carib Conservation 5775 Cash Cash 1 false false false false false false Matthew Bright Officer Son 34098 Employee false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information The son of the President and Executive Director/Treasurer was an employee of the organization during 2014. He was also reimbursed for the use of his personal pickup truck. During 2014, these payments amounted to $2,098. Of that amount, $2,000 was a one-time payment to secure access to the pickup for five years; the remainder consisted of mileage charges. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: DC-Area Meadow Restoration:On-going work at the Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Prince William County, Virginia, and at two Fairfax County, Virginia, parks to establish or rehabilitate meadows. On our 12.5-acre site at Occoquan Bay, we conducted a four-month test of our Green Reaping meadow management technique, in which selective hand-mowing with scythes is intended to increase native forb abundance. At a 0.65-acre meadow in Fairfax Countys Rutherford Park, we hand-pulled invasive alien plants and planted various native grasses and forbs. And at Huntley Meadows Park, also in Fairfax County, we supplied about 1,200 local-ecotype native plants and volunteers for a wet-meadow restoration project. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Tropical Agroforestry: Operation of a community tree nursery and associated forest-conservation programs on the Dominican side of a portion of the Dominican Republic Haiti border, to slow deforestation and help impoverished farmers increase their incomes. During 2014, about 40 farms participated. The nursery produced about 25,000 orchard, timber, and local-ecotype native tree seedlings; 11 native species were represented, all of them probably in decline in the wild. Our Forest Credit program, in which our local independent partner organization makes low-cost credit available to small-holder farmers in exchange for forest conservation easements, lent $19,750 to 40 farms, in exchange for easements over about 150 acres of forest. Our Parcelas Sembradas program pays a small annual stipend to eight of our farms for maintaining and monitoring experimental forest plantings; during 2014, the program paid out a total of $1,078. Two of our poorest farms are benefitting from our Parcela Agro-Ecolgica, a sophisticated polyculture system designed to increase soil fertility on about one acre, in exchange for additional conservation easements. Our Rising Forests Coffee program, which buys small-holder native-shade coffee, is protecting about 20 acres of forest; in 2014, Rising Forests paid our farmers about twice the usual Fair Trade rate. Our 44.3-acre nature reserve, the regions only community-owned nature reserve, is protecting the headwaters of a village water supply. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: DC-Area Meditation: The practice of traditional Buddhist meditation in a nondenominational format, in the Washington, DC, area. During 2014, sessions were generally conducted once a week. Some 35-40 people attended at least one sitting; there were about 15 regular attendees. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: DC-Area Forest Restoration Outside Stream Buffers:On-going work at the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in Fairfax County, Virginia. During 2014, we suppressed invasive alien vegetation in several parts of the parks 17-acre forest. We cleared invasive vine curtains, removed invasive groundlayer, cut invasive woody understory, and downed invasive tree species. All together, total area cleared of invasives now probably amounts to about 6.5 acres. We also began reestablishing several species of native grass along a section of forest edge, with stock grown at our Wild Plant Nursery. 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 is also an employee of the organization. Two of the volunteer directors are also married to each other; in addition two other volunteer directors who were on the board for a portion of 2014 were 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. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Coffee Transport: Column (A) - Total = $666; Column (B) - Program Services = $666; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Credit Card Fees: Column (A) - Total = $224; Column (B) - Program Services = $224; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Entertainment: Column (A) - Total = $814; Column (B) - Program Services = $789; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $25 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Equipment R and M: Column (A) - Total = $2848; Column (B) - Program Services = $2848; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Events Supplies: Column (A) - Total = $376; Column (B) - Program Services = $374; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $2 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Events: Column (A) - Total = $465; Column (B) - Program Services = $421; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $44 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Construction Materials: Column (A) - Total = $2124; Column (B) - Program Services = $2124; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Containers: Column (A) - Total = $1212; Column (B) - Program Services = $1212; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Fuel: Column (A) - Total = $1691; Column (B) - Program Services = $1691; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Greenhouse Supplies: Column (A) - Total = $236; Column (B) - Program Services = $236; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Misc Field Equipment: Column (A) - Total = $292; Column (B) - Program Services = $292; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Misc Field Supplies: Column (A) - Total = $1551; Column (B) - Program Services = $1551; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Signage: Column (A) - Total = $273; Column (B) - Program Services = $273; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Supplies Other: Column (A) - Total = $39; Column (B) - Program Services = $39; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Tools: Column (A) - Total = $1871; Column (B) - Program Services = $1871; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Field Volunteer Refreshments: Column (A) - Total = $644; Column (B) - Program Services = $644; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Miscellaneous Fees: Column (A) - Total = $345; Column (B) - Program Services = $313; Column (C) - Management & General = $17; Column (D) - Fundraising = $15 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Research Expenses: Column (A) - Total = $216; Column (B) - Program Services = $21; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $195 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Coffee Equipment: Column (A) - Total = $28; Column (B) - Program Services = $28; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Coffee Payments: Column (A) - Total = $2387; Column (B) - Program Services = $2387; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree bank Coffee Processing: Column (A) - Total = $214; Column (B) - Program Services = $214; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Coffee Roasting: Column (A) - Total = $1629; Column (B) - Program Services = $1629; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Coffee Storage: Column (A) - Total = $869; Column (B) - Program Services = $869; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Coffee Supplies: Column (A) - Total = $1441; Column (B) - Program Services = $1441; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree bank Coffee transport: Column (A) - Total = $2083; Column (B) - Program Services = $2083; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank CoffeeInventory Mgmt: Column (A) - Total = $150; Column (B) - Program Services = $150; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Farmer Planting: Column (A) - Total = $3003; Column (B) - Program Services = $3003; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Farmer Stem Payments: Column (A) - Total = $625; Column (B) - Program Services = $625; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Field Supplies: Column (A) - Total = $133; Column (B) - Program Services = $133; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree bank misc fees: Column (A) - Total = $250; Column (B) - Program Services = $250; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Miscellaneous: Column (A) - Total = $183; Column (B) - Program Services = $183; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Motorcycle Fuel : Column (A) - Total = $578; Column (B) - Program Services = $578; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Motorcycle Other: Column (A) - Total = $219; Column (B) - Program Services = $219; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Nursery Supplies: Column (A) - Total = $2006; Column (B) - Program Services = $2006; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Outreach Supplies: Column (A) - Total = $71; Column (B) - Program Services = $71; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Truck Fuel: Column (A) - Total = $1548; Column (B) - Program Services = $1548; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Truck Other: Column (A) - Total = $2417; Column (B) - Program Services = $2417; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Bank Visiting: Column (A) - Total = $496; Column (B) - Program Services = $496; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree BankFarmer Planting Maint: Column (A) - Total = $453; Column (B) - Program Services = $453; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Tree Saver: Column (A) - Total = $321; Column (B) - Program Services = $321; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part III, Line 4 The Organization had income of $75,909 from sales of native plants grown in the Wild Plant Nursery and $14,996 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 4b and Schedule O description of Part III line 4b.The Organization had a loss of $218 from occasional sales of t-shirts bearing the Earth Sangha logo, 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, Part VIII Line 2 Business codes for program service revenue:Line 2a:110000 (Agriculture)LIne 2b:110000 (Agrigulture) form 990, Statement on the Value of In-Kind Donations During 2014, volunteers contributed approximately 11,000 hours of service to our Wild Plant Nursery and DC-area ecological restoration sites. We value this effort at $21.37 per hour, which is the current (2013) value for Virginia, as recognized by the Virginia Department of Social Services (2013 is the most recent year for which a value was available). The total value of our 2014 volunteer effort was therefore $235,070.During 2014, Fairfax County, Virginia, regraded a 4,000 square-foot storage area at our Wild Plant Nursery, and spread a fresh layer of gravel there. We value Fairfax Countys contribution at $1,500.