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Nonprofit · EIN 61-1148736

FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC

Tax-exempt · KNOXVILLE, TN 37901

Financials

$1K$95K2023$98K$63K2024
Revenue Expenses · by fiscal year end
Financials of FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC by year, from its e-filed returns
Year endedFormRevenueExpensesNet incomeTotal assetsLiabilitiesNet assets
June 30, 2025990-EZ$98,284$62,954$35,330$105,371$0$105,371
June 30, 2024990-EZ$1,300$94,636-$93,336$66,774$75$66,699
Financial details: 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025

Revenue

Contributions, gifts and grants
$98,023
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$261
Other revenue
$0

Expenses

Grants and similar amounts paid
$0
Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
$0
Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
$0
Professional fees and payments to contractors
$60,888
Printing, publications and postage
$188
Other expenses
$1,878
Program services (functional)
$116,259

Balance sheet and other

Total assets, start of year
$69,081
Total assets, end of year
$105,371
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets, end of year
$105,371
Cash, savings and investments
$29,959
Land and buildings
$75,222
Gross receipts
$98,284

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 June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.

NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Wolf NaegeliPresident8$0
Amadou SallVice President1$0
Lauren ParkerTreasurer1$0
David Rick VaughanSecretary1$0
Stephen SmithChair of the Board2$0
990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2024: 5 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Wolf NaegeliPresident27$0
Amadou SallVice President1$0
Lauren ParkerTreasurer1$0
David Rick VaughanSecretary2$0
Stephen SmithChair of the Board2$0

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)
PO BOX 1101, KNOXVILLE, TN 37901-1101
In care of
% NA
Mailing address (990-N for 2019)
PO Box 1101, Knoxville TN 37901
Principal officer (990-N for 2019)
Wolf Naegeli, 4425 Balraj Ln, Knoxville TN 37921
Signed the 990-EZ
Wolf Naegeli, President
Phone
(865) 800-4440

Mission

The Foundation for Global Sustainability (FGS) works to restore balance between human activities and Earth's natural life support systems. It monitors environmental and social justice issues in Southern Appalachia. It represents its supporters and those who are concerned about developments that degrade ecosystem processes and the quality of life for ordinary citizens in public hearings and through comments on environmental impact statements. FGS cooperates with local, national and international organizations to promote planetary solidarity with Mother Earth and ALL its life forms to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. At HellbenderPress.org website, FGS increases public awareness of opportunities to reduce environmental damages, make businesses and institutions more sustainable, build resilient communities and adopt life styles that will preclude Earth's living conditions from deteriorating to an inhospitable level for future generations over centuries if not millennia.

990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025

Program accomplishments

  • The Foundation for Global Sustainability took last-minute action to prevent the imminent sale of a narrow, 4,000-feet-long strip of land that serves as an urban wildlife corridor near busy Middlebrook Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee. It would almost certainly have been subdivided and fenced off into multiple pieces, likely to include extra parking spaces, utility sheds or container storage for a variety of adjacent warehouses and businesses. The corridor provides connectivity for species that could not traverse this highly developed urban area. It also contributes a substantial portion of the total mature tree canopy in this section of the city. The action received much support from wildlife enthusiast and neighborhood residents.
    Expenses $76,972 · grants $79,302
  • Hellbender Press continued its tradition of excellence in journalism in 2024 with award-winning coverage of the unprecedented disaster spawned by Tropical Storm Helene in the Southern Appalachians. Starting on September 27, 2024 Hellbender Press coverage of the storm provided practical information on relief and aid supplies, and personal and overarching accounts of the epic disaster. Stories were told via on-scene reporting, video and photography, and traditional and digital reporting methods by Editor and Publisher Thomas Fraser and writers and reporters Stambaugh, Wolf Naegeli and Paige Penland. The coverage ranged from Hartford to Hot Springs and Erwin, where multiple workers at a plastics facility died, and included multiple interviews with people who had helped victims, who had barely escaped with their lives, or both. Follow-up reporting included a look at the role climate change played in the disaster. Hellbender Press ultimately reported from three watersheds: The French Broad; the Pigeon; and the Nolichucky. This effort received three first-place awards in the digital-only category, all related to Helene - Hurricane Helene Breaking Coverage; Deadline-Breaking News Reporting; and Series-Package-Project Writing. Two of the judges drew parallels with news coverage of other historic events. "I was on the news desk of The Oklahoman in 1995 after the Murrah federal building attack. The Oklahoman perhaps created the textbook on how to interview victims in a mass casualty event. Here, the Hellbender Press - whether they knew it or not - followed the Oklahoman's victim coverage and delivered exemplary stories of people affected by impact and by the fatalities of families and friends. I know. I was there. Hellbender Press reported on the how and why of a mass flooding disaster ... outstanding. Reporting on the victims of the Appalachian flooding was exemplary. Well done, journalists!" "Hellbender Press, apparently a normal environmental news and information website, was transformed into a severe weather and flooding news reporting operation with quick efficiency that has to be envied by Oklahoma news outlets that face quickly developing weather news on a yearly basis every spring," said another judge. "The environmental writers of Hellbender Press posted stories, photos, graphics and maps as the flooding quickly developed. Hellbender Press showed how to cover fast breaking weather storms and apparently without the expertise of news outlets in tornado alley, including Oklahoma. An excellent achievement!"
    Expenses $38,207 · grants $17,750
  • PLANETARY SOLIDARITY: FGS is building a regional portal and model program to support community members in developing strong individual and cooperative initiatives to adopt more sustainable and resilient ways of consumption, production, operation, interaction, and exchange. Initiatives may range from the personal to the global level. Our actions are focused on local or bioregional IMPLEMENTATION, yet not without a clear awareness and idea of how each initiative will contribute to the solution of a concerning planetary problem. By following the "Think Globally, Act Locally" ethos of solidarity with Mother Earth, all people and all other forms of life, participants can identify immediate, practical, locally adapted opportunities to achieve more effective improvements than governmental mandates could and would. -- For decades, concerned citizens have demanded that governments take action to avert global environmental catastrophe. With every day it becomes clearer how we are already engulfed by it and that its severity is ever accelerating. It is high time for everyone to do their best by themselves as well as with their family, neighbors, coworkers and everyone else they can motivate and engage! -- Hellbender Press is providing background information on local and regional issues. It emphasizes their implications for ecosystems and the global commons and highlights sustainable solutions. -- We also work with the University of Tennessee, other academic institutions and high schools to build a foundation for environmental journalism in East Tennessee. Interns get editorial advisement and opportunities to contribute stories that help them start a journalism career and get clips for their portfolio. They may even find an occasion to boost scholarly research and earn a shared professional byline. Four students participated in completing vignettes as part of a years long cooperation with the environmental journalism class of Dr Mark Littman, School of Journalism and Media, at UT Knoxville. Ivy Zhang, a college bound honors student, considered her experience working with the Hellbender a bonus on her applications. Recent marketing graduate Robert Norris approached Hellbender for substantive bylines to further his career and the popularity of his "Maryville College Podcast." Keenan Thomas, a recent graduate of the UT journalism school, reached out to Hellbender to further his writing career. He ultimately went on to become a staff writer at the Knoxville News Sentinel. To read examples of their stories, go to hellbenderpress.org/search and enter Ivy Zhang, Robert Norris, Carly Broady, Keenan Thomas, Elan Young or 'vignette,' then press the Return key.
    Expenses $1,080 · grants $1,001

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 June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

Tax yearYear endedDueIRS public records
2025June 30, 2026November 16, 2026Not due yet
2024June 30, 2025November 17, 2025990-EZ on file
2023June 30, 2024November 15, 2024990-EZ on file

File the 2025 990-EZ for FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC

Due November 16, 2026 · e-filed with the IRS by 990.tax, an IRS-authorized e-file provider

IRS record

EIN
61-1148736
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
1989
Accounting year ends
June
Files
Form 990 or 990-EZ
Assets (IRS master file)
$105,371
Income (IRS master file)
$98,284

Filing history

FormYear endedRevenueExpensesAssetsReturn
990-EZJune 2025$98,284$62,954$105,371XML
990-EZJune 2024$1,300$94,636$66,774IRS
990-EZJune 2023–––IRS
990-EZJune 2022–––IRS
990-EZJune 2021–––IRS
990-N for 2019
Officer: Wolf Naegeli
June 30, 2020≤ $50,000 receipts––e-Postcard
990-N for 2018
Officer: Wolf Naegeli
June 30, 2019≤ $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 61-1148736).

Questions about FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC

What is the EIN of FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC?
The employer identification number (EIN) of FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC is 61-1148736.
Is FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC tax-exempt?
Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1989.
Are donations to FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC tax-deductible?
Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
Which annual return does FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC 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 FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC due?
The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
When did FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC last file with the IRS?
The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended June 2025.
Who is the principal officer of FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC?
The 990-N for 2019 names Wolf Naegeli.
Who are the officers and directors of FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC?
The 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 5 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
How much revenue does FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INC have?
On its 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $98,284, expenses of $62,954 and total assets of $105,371 at year end.

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