NonprofitsSprings Stewardship Institute

Science & Technology

Springs Stewardship Institute

FLAGSTAFF, AZ

Total revenue

$705K

Total expenses

$639K

Net assets

$126K

Grants received

$50K

1 grants

EIN

852866689

Tax year

2024

Mission

We promote and improve scientific understanding and stewardship of springs ecosystems and the riparian systems they support. We pursue this mission through research, sharing information, stewardship, and collaboration. We work closely with individuals and organizations with similar goals to plan and conduct springs research and disseminate the results. We provide information, trainings, advisement, tools, and expertise, both directly and electronically, to interested springs stewards. With the goal of reaching a broad and inclusive audience, we conduct outreach and education by publishing our findings and providing lectures and other presentations. We provide advisement and assistance to agencies conducting restoration or other management activities that promote the ecological care of springs. These strategies are designed to advance sustainable ecological stewardship of springs ecosystems for the benefit of nature and humanity.

Programs

2 programs

Springs Ecosystem Training - SSI provides educational material, training, and tools for the general public, students, researchers, landowners, agencies, tribes, and other nonprofit organizations. We provide protocols, general information about springs, a user guide for the online database, images, and a dichotomous key to identify springs types. In 2021 due to Covid, most of this information was made available through our website at SpringStewardshipInstitute.org, and through 30+ online meetings and trainings.

Expenses: $11K

Springs Online Data Portal - SSI developed and hosts Springs Online at springsdata.org. This online relational database contains information about 156,278 springs, primarily across the western United States. Data includes flow, water chemistry, vegetation, invertebrates, vertebrates, geomorphology, georeferencing, and images. It offers robust reporting capacity with downloads to Excel, Word, and GIS files. It also includes a spatial module that allows users to upload boundaries, apply various basemaps, and symbolize data. The database provides free access to 1,530 users - students, researchers, landowners, agencies, tribes, and other nonprofit organizations.

Expenses: $3K

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants$82K
Program service revenue$621K
Investment income$2
Other revenue$2K
Total revenue$705K

Expenses

Grants paid
Salaries & benefits$389K
Fundraising$4K
Other expenses$250K
Total expenses$639K
Total assets$161K
Net assets$126K

People

9 listed

NameRoleCompensation

LAWRENCE E STEVENS

Executive Dir.

Board

$90K

40 hrs/wk

JERI LEDBETTER

CFO

Board

$85K

40 hrs/wk

DR BARBARA L HALL

President

Board

2 hrs/wk

DR JIM HOLWAY

Devlopment Chr

Board

2 hrs/wk

DARAH FARRAR

Treasurer

Board

2 hrs/wk

JAQUELYN LEDBETTER

Secretary

Board

2 hrs/wk

DR CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD

Trustee

Board

2 hrs/wk

DR JOEL BARNES

Trustee

Board

2 hrs/wk

JOSEPH GURRIERI

Trustee

Board

2 hrs/wk

Grants received

Showing 1 of 1

FromAmountPurposeYear
$50K
Support for a project to document and increase awareness of the headwater springs of the Verde River's tributaries.
2022

Funded by

$50K from 1 funder · 1 grant · 2022

Details

EIN852866689
NTEE codeU50
Subsection03
Ruling date2021-01
Formed2020
Employees7
Volunteers2
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