2024-08-10T00:14:39-04:00 2023-12-31 841734816 Daren M McDonald CPA Chartered 913 Tahoe Boulevard Suite 12 Incline Village NV 89451 990 2023-01-01 942538013 Sierra State Parks Foundation SIER PO Box 28 Tahoe City CA 96145 Michael Myers Executive Direc 5305839911 2024-06-28 false true Daren M McDonald CPA JD P00641592 7752984138 2024-08-09 2023 2024-08-08 14:25:15Z Heidi Doyle 1338154 false X www.sierrastateparks.org X 1974 CA The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with California State Parks. 10 10 4 62 0 0 340811 241110 231287 275110 2300 67606 357529 376498 931927 960324 106837 176279 0 515099 623005 4332 0 129050 118653 153360 744921 952644 187006 7680 1947931 1958757 18114 21260 1929817 1937497 X The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with California State Parks. false false 542875 270766 Education/Interpretation: 1. Our historic house museum guides team for Vikinghsolm and the Hellman-Ehrman Estate inspired 17,241 visitors with historic house museum tours, including 1,293 free tours to school children. 2. SSPF staff welcomed 52,624 visitors to the visitor centers operated by SSPF (Sugar Pine Point and Vikingsholm). In addition, our staff supplemented state parks staff at the Donner Memorial State Park Visitor Center for 6 months in 2023. 3. We collaborated with state parks with the production of major outreach events that included: Donner Legacy Day, Pine Lodge 150th Birthday Celebration, Free Ski Day at the Park, and the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between California State Parks and the Washoe Nation. 4. SSPF supported a large variety of educational programming provided by the talented interpretive staff of California State Parks. Our support included considerable financial contributions to pay for park interpretive staff, purchasing the equipment and materials to support these programs and professional support that helped in program development and implementation. These collaborative efforts that bought free educational and interpretive program to over 22,094 park visitors in 2023. These programs ranged from rafting experiences on Donner Lake, supporting the Docent Program that brings daily historic tours at the Donner Visitor Center and school group programming, Junior Rangers, tabling that brought programs to where people are at Emerald Bay and Sugar Pine Point SP, and virtual school programs to classrooms around the country. 176279 176279 Cultural and Natural Resource Restoration: 1. SSPF funded restoration and on-going maintenance projects at Vikingsholm. 2024 highlights included the completion of the restoration of the garage and lakeside entry doors; we worked with State Parks to forward the on-going projects of the turret restoration, roof repairs and lakeside site improvements to stop the degration of the landscape by the estimated 1.5 million visitors to this popular Emerald Bay beach. 2. We continued to support the maintenance and restoration needs of the Hellman-Ehrman Estate (Pine Lodge) to include the historic garden, repairs to exterior and interior plaster repair needs, siding and roof repairs and general upkeep. Administration: 1. Our contract with Tahoe Tech has resulted in us ducking several cyber-attacks and phishing episodes. 2.We have negotiated for our needed on-going services at discounted rates, when possible, bringing a higher value to SSPF. As of 2024, we are now offering a solid Blue Cross Health Plan, Employee Assistance Program, retirement benefits that include a 3% match, 10 paid holidays, flex-time (when feasible), up to three weeks of holidays (depending on time with SSPF) and a positive and supportive work environment. Advocacy and Outreach: President Norma Santiago and the Executive Director remained involved in advocacy work by attending meetings, creating opportunities to educate community members, legislators and state park officials about the partnership value of SSPF and pertinent park related projects within our jurisdiction.It was an honor to nominate Dr Helen Henry Smith for the esteemed Golden Bear Award, that recognizes individuals who have made a significant impact to the betterment of California State parks. The award was presented by the California State Parks and Recreation Commission in January. Equity and Access: We continue to focus on providing welcoming state park experiences for all through our events, park operations we manage and working with parks to expand park memories to a wide range of audiences. To this end, we have entered into a formal agreement with Davids Chair to bring an all-terrain wheelchair to Sugar Pine Point State Park this coming summer to be checked out from the Visitor Center. Our staff coordinates closely with State Parks and others to expand accessibility to Emerald Bay and Vikinghsolm through a variety of tactics. I am especially appreciative to Rosie Smith for her tenacity to keep the State Park volunteer ADA access program to Emerald Bay going in 2023. Under her leadership, several hundred visitors experienced access into Emerald Bay and were able to take tours of Vikinghsolm. Our partnership with Cruise Tahoe and Camp Richardson Marina brought 2,201 visitors by boat, taking 1,000 cars off the roads. 719154 true true false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 true 4 true false false false false false false false false X 10 10 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X Heidi Doyle 5305839911 PO Box 28 Tahoe City CA 96145 Heidi Doyle Executive Director 40.00 0.00 X 92877 0 0 Kerry Andres Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Sarah Robertson Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Wes Kuguni Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Suzanne Larsen Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Susan Grove Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Levin Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Barton Tretheway Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Rosie Smith Secretary 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Norma Santiago President 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 92877 0 0 0 false false false 33102 15000 193008 5892 241110 Interpretive Programs 713990 4344 4344 Park Tour Operations 713990 270766 270766 275110 67606 67606 33102 754328 377830 376498 376498 960324 651608 0 67606 176279 176279 92877 72444 9288 11145 432238 309791 43222 79225 49639 25886 15738 8015 48251 36172 4388 7691 6056 6056 12425 12425 23290 16962 602 5726 2552 336 438 1778 14538 5961 4216 4361 10792 9146 306 1340 6567 2733 1844 1990 Bank and CC Discount Fees 26851 25164 930 757 Supplies 8834 6955 975 904 Non-Cash Services 5892 5892 Telephone 3944 2152 810 982 31619 23281 3202 5136 952644 719154 104440 129050 607746 544172 82614 82629 132621 113685 5982 5393 1118968 1212878 1947931 1958757 18114 21260 18114 21260 X 959003 1029409 970814 908088 1929817 1937497 1947931 1958757 7680 0 X false false false X 172689 271836 493398 300848 235218 1473989 343042 7533 195826 589316 651608 1787325 515731 279369 689224 890164 886826 3261314 3261314 20340 18726 381 2300 67606 109353 20340 18726 381 2300 67606 109353 536071 298095 689605 892464 954432 3370667 0.96760 0.98590 0.03000 0.01000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 145207 47820 193027 91972 53235 145207 75207 16765 91972 62080 13127 75207 62080 62080 false false Big Bluegras 22758 22758 9927 Music Castle 12530 12530 1384 5 17746 17746 8621 53034 53034 19932 19932 33102 true State of California 1416 9th Street Sacramento CA 95814 176279 To Support CA State Parks System Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 Form 990 was provided to the Board of Directors at a regularly scheduled meeting, and thereafter was available for comment and questions for 14 days before the return was filed. Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c The Board of Directors reviews the conflict of interest policy annually, and all Board members are requried to disclose any conflicts that exist. CEO executive director top management comp Part VI line 15a The Board of Directors annually prepares a perforance review of the top management of the organization and independently determines any comensation that is awarded. Other officer or key employee compensation Part VI line 15b The Board of Directors reviews local area rates for executive directors, and annually reviews the executive director performance. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 No other documents available to the public. Part III response or note to any other line in Part III Organization MissionThe Sierra State Parks Foundation (SSPF) believes that the Lake Tahoe and Truckee Area California State Parks are unique treasurers that are worthy of our support. We fund projects and educational programs that connect people with our rich natural resources and cultural heritage. Because of our work, our parks will continue to be places of education and inspiration for generations to come.