2024-05-14T07:16:35-07:00 2023-12-31 541658228 RICHARD A HALL PC 6849 OLD DOMINION DR STE 360 MCLEAN VA 22101 990 2023-01-01 541868546 Earth Sangha EART 7033333022 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 Christopher Bright President 2024-05-14 true Christopher Bright 999009999 true Richard A Hall CPA P00510935 7038215434 0 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 608122 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 11 1717 0 216206 298824 353518 305414 276 3281 0 570000 607519 0 0 355614 432276 0 45071 221321 266284 576935 698560 -6935 -91041 916667 826235 948 1564 915719 824671 Conservation, ecological restoration, and helping people develop healthier connections to the lands and waters around them. false false 295378 364104 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 while native plant populations). Some of these species are rare, either locally or on the state level;we are propagating them at the request of local government agencies, for use on their restoration sites. Our plants are also used in our own projects and in those those of other nonprofits, "Friends of" groups, individual restorationists, as well as goverment agencies managing local parkland and schoolyards. During 2023 about 65,563 native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants were distributed from the nursery to local forests, meadows, and maintained landscapes. 183312 19849 Tree Bank Hispaniola: Operation of 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 2023, about 67 farms participated. Program activities were somewhat constrained because of unusually heavy rains and a local labor shortage but we still managed to produce and plant about 23,461 orchard, timber, and lcoal-ecotype native tree seedlings; 7 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 asociacion de productores de bosque, los cerezos)) extends low-cost credit to small-holder farmers in exchange for pledges. To conserve forest - that credit program lent about $37,600 to 54 farms, in exchange for pledges covering about 353 acres of forest. ((The pledges are held by our Dominican partner organization.) Our 44.3-acre nature reserve, the region's only community-owned nature reserve, is protecting the headwaters of a village water supply. Our rising forests coffee program is rehabilitating the region's shade-grown coffee, in the wake of the coffee leaf-rust epidemic of 2014-15; the epidemic killed virtually all of the region's coffee trees. Rising forests is producing rust- resistant coffee trees for planting on local farms, as well as cocoa trees. Both cofee and cocoa are high-value crops that grow best under forest canopy, so our program is creating a powerful economic incentive to convserve forest, and we are continuing to restore additional patches of forest for underplanting with coffee and cocoa. 108351 342 DC-area forest and meadow restoration: on-going work at the 20-acre Marie Butler Leven Preserve in Faifax County, Virginia. During 2023, we donated and installed 619 native herbaceous and woody plants. We hosted a combination of small, regular field events for our own volunteers, and large one-ff events with student groups and Eagle Scouts. All told, we estimate that 134 volunteers invested some 237 hours in Marie Butler Leven during 2023. Some of this labor was devoted to the planting efforts just mentioned, but most of it was devoted to the control of invasive alien vegetation, which is a major problem at this park and many others in our region. We hosted similar projects at 6 other Fairfax County Parks. ALONG DEWEYS CREEK, WE PARTNERED WITH PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY TO INSTALLED 1,380 NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS, AND HERBACEOUS PLANTS IN A SERIES OF DEER EXCLOSURES AS A PART OF OUR HABITAT REFUGE PROGRAM. AT GREEN SPRINGS GARDENS, WE INSTALLED 749 HERBACEOUS PLANTS IN A MEADOW PLANTING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK AUTHORITY. THIS PLANTING INCLUDED A NUMBER OF RARE SPECIES AND SPECIES BECOMING HARDER TO FIND IN THE WILD.AT LAKE FAIRFAX PARK, WE PLANTED 416 SHRUBS, SMALL TREES, AND WARM-SEASON GRASSES IN A MEADOW/ FOREST-EDGE PLANTING. ALL PLANTS WERE PROTECTED WITH CAGES FROM DEER BROWSE. THIS PROJECT IS PART OF AN ON-GOING EFFORT TO RESTORE NATIVE MEADOWS TO LAKE FAIRFAX PARK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK AUTHORITYALONG LITTLE HUNTING CREEK, WE WORKED PARTNERED WITH THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA CONSERVATION TRUST AND FRIENDS OF LITTLE HUNTING CREEK TO REMOVE INVASIVE SPECIES AND REPLANT WITH NATIVES ALONG A RIPARIAN BUFFER. WE INSTALLED A TOTAL OF 443 TREES, SHRUBS, AND HERBACEOUS PLANTS TO AUGMENT THE EXISTING OAK SAVANNAH ON SITE.AT MASON DISTRICT PARK, WE WORKED WITH VOLUNTEERS AND STUDENT GROUPS TO REMOVE INVASIVE VINES FROM THE FOREST-EDGES AND UNDERSTORY. THIS WORK WAS FOLLOWED UP WITH A SERIES OF PLANTINGS OF NATIVE OAKS, HICKORIES, VIBURNUMS, AND OTHER NATIVE WOODY AND HERBACEOUS SPECIES VALUABLE TO WILDLIFE. IN TOTAL, WE INSTALLED 200 NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS, AND HERBACEOUS PLANTS IN TWO DEER EXCLOSURES AS A PART OF OUR HABITAT REFUGE PROGRAM. MASON DISTRICT PARK IS A FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK AUTHORITY DISTRICT PARK THAT LIES WITHIN A JUSTICE 40 AREA, AN AREA IDENTIFIED AS A DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY WHICH IS MARGINALIZED, UNDERSERVED, AND OVERBURDENED BY POLLUTION BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE SCREENING TOOL.AT RUTHERFORD PARK, WE PLANTED ABOUT 240 HERBACEOUS AND WOODY PLANTS AND CUT AWAY INVASIVES OVER ABOUT HALF AN ACRE OF THE PARK'S RIPARIAN ZONE. 587041 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 1 0 true 11 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 true false false VA X X X Christopher Bright 7033333022 5101 I Backlick Road Annandale VA 22003 Christopher Bright President 50.00 0.00 X X 64000 0 657 Lisa Bright Executive Dir. 50.00 0.00 X X 62929 0 0 Mary Silvia Chair of Board 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Amy Frey Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Haeuber Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Jordan Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Christian Lansing Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kristine Lansing Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ashley Todd Mattoon Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 126929 657 0 false false false 0 16150 282674 298824 Native Plant Sales 900099 305414 305414 305414 3297 3297 0 0 0 587 603 -16 -16 -16 0 0 0 0 607519 305414 3281 0 0 0 0 126929 101329 19200 6400 0 239612 184672 25617 29323 0 37694 31552 4205 1937 28041 21872 3926 2243 0 0 2167 1734 325 108 0 0 0 12700 10142 1896 662 0 0 0 0 28250 19775 5650 2825 0 0 0 0 0 58021 56933 734 354 12343 12156 140 47 Tree Bank 51468 51468 Tree Bank: DR transfers 31018 31018 Supplies 30541 30448 70 23 Credit Card fees 11104 8380 2724 28672 25562 1961 1149 698560 587041 66448 45071 108405 218632 611414 467715 0 123 97 0 0 0 0 0 518279 378488 196725 139791 0 0 0 0 0 916667 826235 948 1457 107 948 1564 X 915719 824671 915719 824671 916667 826235 -91041 -7 X false false false X 229158 266574 361479 216206 298824 1372241 0 0 229158 266574 361479 216206 298824 1372241 270339 1101902 1141 738 404 276 3297 5856 0 0 1378097 0.79960 0.83190 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 14444 5284 9160 503835 373204 130631 139791 Sales tax payable 107 107 true Central America & Caribbean 0 9 Program service Forest conservation 40368 9 9 40368 40368 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 once or twice a year. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 In 2023: Christopher Bright , the President and Lisa Bright then the executive director were married. Their son, Matthew Bright, was married to Katharine Isaacson. Both Matthew and Katherine were employees of the Earth Sangha. Among the board:Amy Frey was married to Richard Haeuber. Christian Lansing was married to Kristine Lansing. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b There were no meetings of committees acting on behalf of the governing body. No such committees exist. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b No review was or will be conducted. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The organization has a conflict of interest policy. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The Board of Directors must approve the President's salary. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Upon written request, the organization will make these documents available.