What the money did.
Our last three Form 990s, the reviewed statements and the determination letter, with the 2025 year in plain words. If a number here disagrees with a filing, the filing is right.
Where it came from, where it went.
From Part I and Part IX of the 2025 return. Service contracts pay for work on public land at cost; they never pay for free test days or private yards.
Revenue
Expenses
Our board sees the same books every month, with plain-English notes. Open the board dashboard (sample) →
Sample video. Cinder & Root is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock (Pexels) and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.
The year, in one short film.
How a site is tested and treated, the fourteen sites on the record, one sample reading (lead from 410 to 96 mg/kg at the old depot yard), and the 2025 year: $612,400 in, $588,900 spent, 81% on the work itself. The same figures are on this site and in the sample Form 990.
Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Short videos like this are part of the plan.
What the money did.
Site cleanup paid for the crews, the straw and the lab tests on every site in the record. Research paid for the greenhouse trials. Training paid for the course, the workshops and the stipends.
Paper copies too
Anyone may ask for our three most recent returns and the exemption letter. Write to us and we send them. We report the rule; we do not advise on it.
The filings.
The three newest Form 990 years list themselves; the letter stays. Every document is a labelled sample.
Form 990
Filed May 2026. Part I summary, Part III what the money did at each site, Part IX expenses by function.
SAMPLE, NOT A REAL IRS FILING
Reviewed financial statements
An independent accountant's review of the 2025 statements.
SAMPLE, NOT A REAL IRS FILING
Form 990
Filed May 2025. The first full year, and the year of the fire response.
SAMPLE, NOT A REAL IRS FILING
Form 990
Filed May 2024. A part year: founded in March 2023.
SAMPLE, NOT A REAL IRS FILING
IRS determination letter
What the letter states: 501(c)(3), public charity, contributions deductible. Presented as information, not as a copy of a government document.
SAMPLE, NOT A REAL IRS FILING