2025-11-14T07:58:30-00:00 2024-12-31 273488128 Bennett & Associates CPAs PLLC 100 Huronview Blvd Ann Arbor MI 48103 990 2024-01-01 562471470 The Stewardship Network STEW 7349963190 416 Longshore Drive Ann Arbor MI 48105 Lisa Brush Executive Director 7349963190 2025-11-14 true true James H Bennett CPA P00447547 7346228015 2025-11-14 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Lisa Brush 416 Longshore Drive Ann Arbor MI 48105 916661 false X www.stewardshipnetwork.org X 2004 MI The Stewardship Networks mission is to connect, equip, and mobilize people and organizations to care for land and water in their communities. See Schedule O for additional information. 9 8 8 295 0 880658 600968 255962 273151 324 186 11253 42356 1148197 916661 0 0 636255 557082 0 71399 930943 961123 1567198 1518205 -419001 -601544 1259909 842118 152345 334448 1107564 507670 X To connect, equip, and mobilize people and organizations to care for land and water in their communities. false false 661516 87434 EQUIP Member Communities Program The Stewardship Network provides backbone support and technology systems to TSN Member Communities across the nation. Our approach builds inclusivity and diversity into land stewardship efforts and we fully embrace the unique supporting role we play in sparking change through these team efforts. In 2024, The Stewardship Network continued to refine and deliver a suite of support services to Member Communities, which include stewardship training and education coordinator support and leadership development event registration/communications structural technology support and communication services administrative, HR, and fiscal sponsorship services. In 2024, TSN grew its Gloves for Good program, which diverts lightly used work gloves out of the waste system, cleans them, and distributes them throughout our network. See Schedule O for further details. 389266 28205 MOBILIZE Collaborative Stewardship Services The Stewardship Network was heavily involved in providing capacity support to several important collaborative stewardship projects, with partners across several states. These fiscally sponsored or grant-funded projects included Collaborating Well, California Landscape Stewardship Network, Duluth CISMA, Golden Gate Biosphere Network, Great Lakes Islands Alliance, Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition, and Above/Below. Additionally, we provided technical and backbone support for 30x30 Californias ongoing engagement activities including their Fall 2024 convening. Providing this type of support to the networks and projects that we work with solves an important infrastructural gap often encountered in our sector and allows collaboratives to take their work forward to solve on the ground stewardship challenges. 222421 199868 CONNECT Learning Engagement Program The Stewardship Network has become an enormous nexus of relevant, specialized knowledge through decades of successful collaboration. While that hard-earned wisdom is leveraged all year long in service to our Member Communities, we continue to dedicate a meaningful portion of our energy to sharing these learnings with the widest audience possible. In 2024, these activities included TSN Conference 2024, TSN Spring Challenge, and TSN Monthly Webcasts. 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XI 2d Net contributions included on consolidated financial statements, received by The Stewardship Networks supporting organization. Its supporting organization files a separate Form 990-EZ. XII 2d Operating expenses included on consolidated financial statements that were incurred by The Stewardship Networks supporting organization. Form 990, Part I, Line 1 Continued 2024 Successes The Stewardship Network TSN carried forward its mission and impact by supporting collaborative ecological stewardship work. TSN continued bringing together like-purposed people to work across jurisdictional and property ownership boundaries, forming new partnerships and harnessing our collective power to take care of the environment. TSNs place-based collaboratives, called Member Communities MCs, continued and expanded their work on natural area restoration and stewardship, with complementary learning and engagement programs for individuals in their areas. The Member Community program offers operational support, leadership training, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities for each MC Coordinator. TSNs Member Communities engaged with 550 partner groups across ten states. TSN also expanded its geographic range in 2024 by taking on new Member Communities in Baltimore and the Columbia River Gorge. In 2024, TSN also continued to grow Gloves for Good, which diverts lightly used work gloves out of the waste stream, cleans them, and distributes them throughout our network. The work gloves are available for free, which is a huge benefit to recipients, as that is a constant requirement for on the ground stewardship activities. At the end of 2024, more than 37,000 pairs of gloves had been redistributed by TSN, saving stewardship organizations more than 56,000. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a Continued The work gloves are available for free, which is a huge benefit to recipients, as that is a constant requirement for on the ground stewardship activities. Finally, TSN had a special opportunity in 2024 to play an instrumental role in distributing 50,000 free hazelnut seedlings to sequester carbon, filter nutrients, and provide food across Michigan and Ohio. Form 990, Part III, Line 4c Continued The Stewardship Network Conference 2024 connected, educated, and inspired 320 natural areas stewards from across North America. Presenters and participants came from a wide array of backgrounds, including private landowners, tribal members, government agency representatives, professional land managers, researchers, students, and more. This interdisciplinary conference continued its superb track record as one of the premier natural areas restoration conferences in the region, while involving an even greater diversity of presenters and participants than in previous years. Subject matter included advancements in ecological research, new tools and technologies, and collaborative processes. The Stewardship Network Spring Challenge 2024 logged its greatest level of engagement in program history work hours reported and connected participants from across the United States and Canada to care for natural areas in a collaborative conservation campaign. At the end of the TSNspring 2024, 13,521 participants had reported 58,906 hours of stewardship, removing invasive species, cleaning up natural areas, participating in restoration efforts, and otherwise improving the ecological health of important landscapes. These hours mark an impressive economic impact of donated time in the field, creating an enormous benefit to local governments, organizations, and private landowners. The 2024 value of volunteer hours, which is updated annually by the Independent Sector, was 34.79 per hour, providing a benchmark for the Challenges volunteer economic impact, which comes out to nearly 2 million. The TSNspring 2024 connected ecological stewards across the United States and Canada, elevated enthusiasm for caring for natural areas, and also provided a snapshot of the immense impact that seemingly small actions can make when many people pull together for the health and preservation of natural areas. The Stewardship Networks Monthly Webcast continued to grow in popularity in 2024, attended by natural areas professionals, researchers, students, volunteers, and landowners from around the world. Presentations included a range of topics including invasive species control, natural resource legislation changes, and best practices for natural areas management. Webcast recordings and additional information are available to the public on The Stewardship Network website. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Stewardship Networks 990 initial draft is reviewed for accuracy by our CEO and Finance Manager. Any CEO approved proposed changes are made to our accountant. After the suggested changes have been incorporated, it is reviewed by the Chair of the Finance Committee who is a member of our Board of Directors. After approval by the Chair of the Finance Committee, the 990 is presented to the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Stewardship Network board members and employees annually sign the written conflict of interest policy and are required to disclose interests that could give rise of conflicts. We regularly and consistently monitor and enforce compliance with this policy through an annual review and discussion at board meetings and through the annual review of the policy and signing of the Conflict of Interest Policy certificate. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The Stewardship Network has researched and benchmarked compensation for the Executive Director against compensation studies by Guidestar, Association for Nature Center Administrators, and Nonprofit Enterprise At Work. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b The Stewardship Network will research and benchmark compensation for other officers and key employees against compensation studies by Guidestar, Association for Nature Center Administrators, and Nonprofit Enterprise At Work when the organization determines that officers are to be paid or services are retained of an employee that meets the IRS definition of key employee. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Stewardship Network makes its governing documents and conflict of interest policy available upon request. Financial statements are available to the public on our website. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Contractual services for various program support 452,814 Contractual services for administrative and fundraising support 18,415 Honoraria and stipends 1,700 Payroll service fees 1,996 The Stewardship Network Fund 416 Longshore Drive Ann Arbor MI 48105 881634737 Supporting organization of The Stewardship Network MI 501c3 12a Type I The Stewardship Network true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true false false false false