Earth Sangha Inc.

“The President and Executive Director/Treasurer of Earth Sangha are married; their son and his spouse are also employees of the organization. See Schedule L.Two of the volunteer directors are married to each other.”

“Line 8b: No such committees were in place during the year.”

“Form 990 is reviewed by the President, on behalf of the Board, and by our accountant.”

“Relevant personnel must sign an annual disclosure.”

“Appropriate documents were made available upon request.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Tropical Agroforestry: Tree Bank Hispaniola ProgramOperation of a community tree nursery and associated forest-conservation and tree- planting programs on the Dominican side of a portion of the Dominican Republic Haiti border, to slow deforestation and help small-holder farmers increase their incomes. During 2018, 65 farms participated. The nursery produced about 60,000 orchard, timber, and local-ecotype native tree seedlings; 13 native species were represented, all of them probably in decline in the wild. Our Forest Credit program, in which our local independent partner organization extends low-cost credit to small-holder farmers in exchange for forest conservation easements, lent $29,830 to 44 farms, in exchange for easements over about 257 acres of forest. Our 44.3-acre nature reserve, the regions only community-owned nature reserve, is protecting the headwaters of a village water supply. Our Rising Forests Coffee program, which buys small-holder native-shade coffee, is protecting about 23 acres of forest; during 2018, Rising Forests continued to help local farmers recover from a devastating leaf-rust epidemic that killed virtually all of their coffee trees during 2014-15; about 22,000 rust-resistant coffee trees were planted under native forest canopy. Also during 2018, we expanded our Rising Forests Cocoa project, by growing and distributing cocoa trees for planting under native canopy. About 3,000 cocoa trees were distributed in 2018. Our cocoa effort began in 2016. Since coffee and cocoa are high-value shade-tolerant crops, Rising Forests creates a powerful economic incentive to conserve forest. As part of our Rising Forests effort, we continue to restore additional patches of forest for underplanting with coffee and cocoa. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: DC-Area Meditation: The practice of traditional Buddhist meditation in a nondenominational format, in the Washington, DC, area. During 2018, some 20 people attended at least one sitting; there were eight regular attendees. We stopped holding these sessions in June 2018, because of an increase in rent for the meditation space. We have no plans to resume.”

“Rounding = $3”

“The Organization had income of $176,073 from sales of native plants grown in the Wild Plant Nursery and $412 from sales of coffee grown through the Tropical Agroforestry program. This income is reported on line 9 of Part I. These sales are directly related to the Organization's tax-exempt purpose. See Part III lines 4a and 4c.The Organization had a loss of ($1,092) from occasional sales of t-shirts bearing Earth Sangha designs, reported on line 11 of Part I. This income is not reported as unrelated business income under the exclusion for income from activities that are not regularly carried on (IRC 512(a)(1)). The t-shirts are sold at or near cost; the entire cost of t-shirt purchases is recorded as an expense at the time of purchase by the Organization.”

“During 2018, volunteers contributed approximately 10,000 hours of service to our Wild Plant Nursery and DC-area ecological restoration sites. We value this effort at $26.75 per hour, which is the current (2017) value of volunteer time for Virginia, as recognized by the Virginia Office on Volunteerism and Community Services (2017 is the most recent year for which a value was available). The total value of our 2018 volunteer effort was therefore $267,500.”