Nonprofit · EIN 47-2409361
CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION
Tax-exempt · SACRAMENTO, CA 95814
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 31, 2025 | 990-EZ | $99,380 | $97,792 | $1,588 | $364,444 | $39,400 | $325,044 |
| August 31, 2024 | 990-EZ | $81,711 | $36,726 | $44,985 | $323,506 | $50 | $323,456 |
| August 31, 2023 | 990 | $212,847 | $131,917 | $80,930 | $278,521 | $50 | $278,471 |
Financial details: 990-EZ for the year ended August 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $91,767
- Investment income
- $7,613
Expenses
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $0
- Professional fees and payments to contractors
- $95,640
- Other expenses
- $2,152
- Program services (functional)
- $79,481
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $323,506
- Total assets, end of year
- $364,444
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $39,400
- Net assets, end of year
- $325,044
- Cash, savings and investments
- $364,444
- Gross receipts
- $99,380
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990-EZ for the year ended August 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Biddlecomb | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Paul Buttner | Chair/Ex Dir. | 1 | $0 |
| MIke DeWitt | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Xernimo Castaeda | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Josh Sheppard | Sec/Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
990-EZ for the year ended August 31, 2024: 5 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Biddlecomb | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Paul Buttner | Chair/Ex Dir. | 1 | $0 |
| MIke DeWitt | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Xernimo Castaeda | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Josh Sheppard | Sec/Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended August 31, 2023: 5 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Biddlecomb | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Paul Buttner | Chair/Ex Dir. Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| MIke DeWitt | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Meghan Hertel | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Josh Sheppard | Sec/Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1231 I ST STE 205, SACRAMENTO, CA 95814-2933
- Mailing address (990-N for 2015)
- 1231 I Street Suite 205, Sacramento CA 95814
- Principal officer (990-N for 2015)
- Paul Buttner, 1231 I Street Suite 2015, Sacramento CA 95814
- Signed the 990-EZ
- Paul Buttner, Chairman
- Phone
- (916) 387-2264
- Return prepared by
- MUN CPAs LLP
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 47-2409361 or by the name CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
Enhance the ecological value of California rice fields to help sustain the millions of waterbirds and other wildlife in the pacific flyway for future generations.
Program accomplishments
- Over the past year or so, weve seen a continued transition to more reliance on use of our donor funds to keep significant numbers of enhanced habitat acres out on the landscape as the State investments continued to trend lower with lessening reduced overall concerns over drought conditions in California. With the support of all our many donors we have kept the habitat pipeline flowing and even forged new ground by continuing our pilot testing of new innovative approaches to nesting habitat. We also continued to assist our partner organizations in deploying their funding to projects helping birds the Sacramento Valley. Our Bid4Birds web-based platform continues at the one-stop shop for our partners to communicate about funded programs and gather digital applications from rice growers who are interested in participating. We accomplish this through implementation of several ongoing projects.Bid4Birds Habitat Program: This innovative habitat enhancement program focuses on creating critical shorebird and waterfowl habitat at the precise time periods when habitat is the most scarce. This special targeting of habitat investment, precisely where and when its most needed, provides cost-efficiencies by spending our donor funds within the exact weeks/months that are most critical. Thanks to our donors, this is our main perennial program delivering world-class waterbird habitat year-over-year. In fiscal year 2024-25, we supported both a Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 program. In both seasons, the Foundation supported the programs by hosting them on our Bid4Birds web platform to process bids and implement our analytic process for prioritizing projects. The Fall program created over 2,800 acres of valuable habitat from July through October 2024. This effort was funded by significant contributions from DWR and CDFW. The CDFW funds came to us through a unique partnership agreement involving The Nature Conservancy. The Spring 2025 program also created over 2,800 acres of valuable habitat from February to April. Testing New Approaches to Nesting Habitat: In fiscal year 2024-25, we continued our work piloting a new way of establishing cover crops for the purpose of providing nesting habitat for upland nesting waterbirds. Normally, a cover crop is planted in the fall after rice harvest and then grows over the course of the winter, thus the field could not be winter-flooded. Based on our previous years testing, we believe it is possible to establish the cover crop after winter-flooded rice fields have begun drawing down in late-winter if the grower is planning to idle the acres the following season. These kinds of innovative approaches warrant further study because our future will likely include a greater frequency of planned idling. This creates an opportunity to provide much needed upland nesting habitat for locally breeding waterfowl and to engage interested farmers who would benefit from other revenue streams when idling.This fiscal year, we again worked with one of our producer partners to fly-on the cover crop seed into winter-flooded fields in Butte County in February 2025. Enhancing our Winter-flooded Rice Acres: State funding investments into core winter flooding of ricelands continued this fiscal year with $250,000 of state funds deployed to projects using our Foundation website and implementation resources provided by CRC to administer the Program. Through this CRC-managed rollout, we are also able to offer an enhanced cost-share on the west side of the Valley where prohibitive water costs have been limiting winter-flooded rice acreage. Over 8,500 acres of winter-flooded rice were successfully enrolled into winter flooding contracts.Expenses $79,481
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in August, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | August 31, 2026 | January 15, 2027 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | August 31, 2025 | January 15, 2026 | 990-EZ on file |
| 2023 | August 31, 2024 | January 15, 2025 | 990-EZ on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 47-2409361
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2016
- Accounting year ends
- August
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Animal-related (D32)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $364,444
- Income (IRS master file)
- $99,380
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990-EZ | August 2025 | $99,380 | $97,792 | $364,444 | XML |
| 990-EZ | August 2024 | $81,711 | $36,726 | $323,506 | IRS |
| 990 | August 2023 | $212,847 | $131,917 | $278,521 | XML |
| 990 | August 2022 | $319,014 | $230,217 | $197,591 | IRS |
| 990 | August 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | August 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | August 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | August 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-N for 2015 Officer: Paul Buttner | August 31, 2016 | ≤ $50,000 receipts | – | – | e-Postcard |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 47-2409361).
Questions about CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION
- What is the EIN of CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION is 47-2409361.
- Is CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2016.
- Are donations to CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending August 31, 2026) is due January 15, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended August 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION?
- The 990-N for 2015 names Paul Buttner.
- Who are the officers and directors of CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION?
- The 990-EZ for the year ended August 31, 2025 lists 5 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
- How much revenue does CALIFORNIA RICELANDS WATERBIRD FOUNDATION have?
- On its 990-EZ for the year ended August 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $99,380, expenses of $97,792 and total assets of $364,444 at year end.
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