2024-07-19T13:53:24-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 311595880 FRIENDS OF THE LOWER OLENTANGY WATERSHED FLOW FRIE 6142673386 1404 Goodale Blvd Suite 100 Columbus OH 43212 Kathleen Bruns Treasurer 6147455169 2024-07-19 Kathleen Bruns 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.olentangywatershed.org X X 129598 X 103503 2791 0 3358 0 0 0 0 7251 0 7251 0 0 0 12695 129598 0 0 0 1100 2250 2026 114200 119576 10022 363917 2137 376076 X 274204 153214 0 0 101752 225486 375956 378700 12039 2624 363917 376076 FLOW is dedicated to keeping the Olentangy River and its tributaries clean and safe for all to enjoy, through public education, volunteer activities, and coordination with local decision makers. Capital improvements: FLOW continued our initiative to green up Columbus City School (CCS) properties in our watershed. Kingwood Center (1091 King Avenue.) was an old elementary school currently used as a data center. Our goal was to de-pave unneeded impervious surfaces, plant trees and make this site more park like, since CCS was willing to welcome neighbors to utilize the 1 acre turf playground as a park. This area has been identified by the Trust for Public Land as in high need for a park. FLOW rented equipment to de-pave asphalt and had volunteers help remove the asphalt chunks, which was later recycled. FLOW also hired a landscape architect to redesign the employee entrance and make it less of a heat island and more welcoming. FLOW also hired a contractor to de-pave portions of this area so that we could plant some trees and native shrubs and forbs. Finally we bought some outdoor benches so that people could enjoy the natural environment. In the fall of 2023, FLOW planted 17 more canopy trees and shrubs on the property. 0 15634 Outreach and Education: FLOW hired 20 artists to paint ground murals along highly trafficked areas on North High Street in the Ohio State University District and Short North Neighborhood to be proactive and make people aware that litter that reaches storm drains ends up in the river. Our goal via this education is to have less litter to cleanup out of the Olentangy, resulting in better water quality. FLOW is still evaluating our effectiveness. In addition, FLOW partnered with another nonprofit for the shipment of 3,000 tree seedlings to pass out to schoolchildren for an Earth Day event, and attended various events to educate the general public on the importance of watershed quality. 0 9046 Plantings and Habitat: FLOW continued our Trees for Schools plantings by planting at Olentangy Liberty High School (n=34), Kingwood Data Center (n=17 at 1091 King explained above) and Slate Run Elementary School (n=12). FLOW also maintained many of our 40 pollinator gardens. This work involved growing native plants, rescuing native plants, planting to increase diversity and weeding to control invasives from encroaching. FLOW has many amazing volunteers that help with multiple site ecological service enhancement projects as part of our Greenspace Initiative. Our Stream Quality Monitoring (SQM) team monitored 20 tributaries to the Olentangy at 38 locations to track water quality using macroinvertebrate diversity as the primary water quality indicator. FLOW also participated in a Tree Equity Pilot funded by Columbus Foundation to plant trees at low income homeowner properties. Another initiative was to provide each first grader in our watershed an individually wrapped seedling tree during earth month. This involved calls to each school and delivering trees to each school. FLOW ended up giving 2775 seedlings throughout 5 school districts. 0 33074 Plantings and Habitat: FLOW retrofitted our Worthington Tree Nursery in 2023 to a production tree nursery getting drip irrigation and fertilizer with a goal of producing 750 three gallon container native trees to give away to our residents to increase tree canopy cover. Between our 2 nurseries we ended up giving away 960 trees via giveaways or our Tree Ambassador program where we deliver 10-15 trees to Ambassadors in low canopy areas. Our Yard Signs have a QR code to let people get to our website and find the right tree for their property. We ask recipients to return the containers to the Ambassador so that we can pick them up and reuse them, making our program more sustainable. FLOW also helped DELCO Water create a tree nursery and gave them fabric pots for the first year. 0 15796 73550 Kelly Thiel Chair 4 0 0 0 Monica Backs Vice-Chair 2 0 0 0 Kathleen Bruns Treasurer 6 0 0 0 Bob Campbell Director 2 0 0 0 Arun Majumdar Director 0 0 0 0 Ellie Nowels Director 2 0 0 0 Jim Palus Director 2 0 0 0 Cory Richmond Director 2 0 0 0 Christopher Shirring Director 2 0 0 0 Madison Wisniewski Director 2 0 0 0 Laura Fay Science Chair 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OH Kathleen Bruns 1404 Goodale Blvd Columbus OH 43212 6147455169 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 52664 92564 155152 191478 110754 602612 412 2400 2812 52664 92564 155152 191890 113154 605424 743 1369 2112 0 0 0 743 1369 2112 603312 8873 2512 2167 2538 3358 19448 8873 2512 2167 2538 3358 19448 13086 13086 61537 95076 157319 194428 129598 637958 0.94569 0.9708 0.03048 0.030 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Miscellaneous income of $391.20 and change in beneficial interest community foundation assets of $12,694.59 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Change in beneficial interest in agency endowment fund held at The Columbus Foundation, in accordance with FASB ASC 958-605. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Program support grant expenditures;45526|Service event coordinator;32523|Other contracted services;5378|Supplies and small equipment;2713|Tree nursery supplies;15796|Technology and software;2118|Conferences and travel;754|Bank and service charges;383|Insurance;400|Subscriptions;4800|Other miscellaneous;1333|Tool storage;1448|Equipment rental;1028^Total;114200^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Prior period reconciliation adjustments. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Description;EOY Amount^Beneficial interest in assets held at community foundation;224801|Reimbursements due from other entities;685^Total;225486^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Description;EOY Amount^Accrued expenses;2624^Total;2624^