2025-03-31T14:00:20-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 800342794 WEED WARRIORS WEED 4252287927 PO Box 3455 Renton WA 98056 Tammy Coburn Treasurer 4252353190 2025-03-21 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Nature Stewards Program Grace Stiller PO Box 3455 Renton WA 98056 63400 0 X Naturestewardswa.org X 2008 WA Weed Warriors, DBA Nature Stewards Program mission is to promote environmental stewardship and inspire everyone to protect the native habitat and achieve a healthy environment. They provide educational and hands on events that empowers people to become environmental stewards and the tools to make environmentally friendly decisions. Educational programs include sustainable gardening, growing back yard and community garden vegetables, maintaining, planting and harvesting fruit orchards, growing pollinator gardens, building rain gardens and native habitat gardens, providing habitat restoration and invasive weed removal in public spaces. 4 4 0 180 0 0 61283 60879 0 0 1000 2521 0 0 62283 63400 6185 9262 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50921 56220 57106 65482 5177 -2082 105546 94095 8917 311 96629 93784 Weed Warriors, DBA Nature Stewards Program provides opportunities to connect to nature by planting native species in habitat restoration projects, controlling noxious weeds in public parks, trails, & open spaces while educating about environmental stewardship to achieve healthier air, water & land. Provides educational & hands on events that empowers people to become environmental stewards. Provides awareness & the tools to make environmentally friendly decisions. Programs include nature stewardship presentations, invasive weed eradication workshops, hands on removal of invasive & noxious weeds & replanting with native species. The programs promote sustainability & community cohesiveness. Participants have worked storm water runoff mitigation, rain gardens, fruit orchards, food drying, pollinator gardens, planted 1,000s of plants to sequester tons of carbon and other pollutants from the air. Promotes sustainable gardening practices through display gardens and pictures. 100% volunteer!! 0 0 25029 0 Environmental Stewardship Outreach program places knowledgeable people at community events to empower individuals to become environmental stewards and inspires everyone to protect and restore the native habitat. Presentations, informational handouts, examples of native plants and answers to environmental concerns are addressed. Protecting and improving the air, water and land for future generations through educating the community, including sustainable gardening practice is what this program delivers. 31665 0 New Start Community Garden is over an acre of leased land with a community pea patch, fruit orchard, berry patch, pollinator garden, herb garden, tea garden, edible flower garden and space for local high school students and community members to get their hands on experience growing, drying and preserving food crops, building garden beds and composting. Aiming to provide local produce, reducing the carbon footprint of transporting food, growing community cohesiveness while promoting sustainable practices. The excess food grown is donated to the community. This is a fiscally sponsored grant specific project. 8334 0 Myers Way Experiential Learning Program. This environmental program removes invasive weed species and restores habitats with native plants near Myers Way Wetlands to protect the health of Puget Sound and its residents. The program mitigates past pollution runoff by supporting community based efforts to protect and improve the water quality of Puget Sound and its watersheds. The program offers volunteer participants ability to develop knowledge from a real-life hands-on environmental project broadening employment skills and expanding opportunities for a future career or job in an environmental profession. 0 0 0 65028 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 X 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 X X Grace Stiller 4252287927 PO Box 3455 Renton WA 98056 X Grace Stiller President 60 0 X X 0 0 0 Coleen Militich Secretary 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Monica Rosman Lafever Vice President 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Tammy Coburn Treasurer 15 0 X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 570 0 0 0 39999 20310 1425 60879 0 0 0 0 0 2521 2521 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 63400 2521 0 0 9262 9262 17500 17500 5845 5731 114 198 198 234 208 26 1547 1278 269 2641 2641 500 500 415 415 Business exp. Licenses, Permits and Fees 253 208 45 Supplies 19891 19891 0 0 Volunteer Support-Food, Gear, Educ., Stipends 7196 7196 0 0 65482 65028 454 0 23100 29191 50949 53440 23214 8334 30 0 7355 3130 898 105546 94095 8917 311 8917 311 X 95866 93784 763 0 96629 93784 105546 94095 X -2082 0 0 0 0 -763 X 0 0 0 X 40495 59586 70362 47849 50487 268779 8256 10935 12161 13434 10392 55178 48751 70521 82523 61283 60879 323957 323957 46 52 63 1000 2521 3682 46 52 63 1000 2521 3682 48797 70573 82586 62283 63400 327639 0.98876 0.99628 0.01124 0.00372 X Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The 990 is reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors prior to filing and is noted in the Board Minutes as reviewed and approved for filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Conflict of Interest Policy is reviewed, approved and signed by the Board members annually. Monitoring and enforcement of the policy is performed by the Board of Directors at its regular meetings during the year. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Officers are not compensated and there are no paid employees for this company. Company is 100% volunteer run. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 Weed Warriors, DBA Nature Stewards Program has governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Weed Warriors, DBA Nature Stewards Program has governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Program completed to release Temporary Restricted Assets