Integrative Development Initiative

“Part VI 11b -- The complete form was emailed to all members of our governing body (our board of stewards) prior to filing the return. Our board reviews financial documents at our regularly scheduled board meetings, this includes going over our accounting & submissions.”

“Part VI 19 -- We make documents that are open to public inspection available upon request. Recently, we have received requests to view filed 990s and governing documents, such as bylaws and articles of incorporation from a variety of institutional partners. These requests have been primarily in conjunction with establishing a relationship with the partner, such as when opening a bank account, obtaining a business license, and applying for funding (e.g. national conservation funding, state grant funding, etc.).”

“Part VI 8b -- We answered "no", because we did not have any committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body in 2023.”

“Part V 7g & 7h -- We left these items blank because we did not receive contributions of the kinds mentioned in these questions. In the previous year, we marked no because we wanted to indicate we did not receive these kinds of contributions. We found the question to be a bit confusing, because the question starts with and if statement, but doesnt allow you to indicate yes or no to the proposition in the if statement, before asking another yes or no question. (Breaking this into two questions, where the second question is answered only if the answer to the first question is yes seems to be the more common way that this seems to be handled on the forms).”