2025-11-17T17:16:48-05:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 853664649 AMERICAN SONGBIRD MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY AMER 9063703248 PO BOX 2 AHMEEK MI 499010002 JC Griffith Administrator 9063370782 2025-11-17 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Randee Smith Chair PO BOX 2 AHMEEK MI 49901 638110 false X X 2020 MI American Songbirds 2024 most significant activities were: 1. Continuing research on endangered songbirds in the Southwest by partnering with Ventura Audubon Society on the 5th year of a 2020 - 2024 National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Grant in CA: funding 2024 Contractor to remove non-native parasitic brown-headed cowbirds in Santa Barbara County. 2. Protection of native songbird habitat including continued acquisitions of bird sanctuaries in MI focusing on the most threatened coastal areas watershed parcels wildlife corridors and parcels contiguous to current sanctuaries. 5 5 0 5 0 0 700202 99000 0 0 62670 539110 0 0 762872 638110 35000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4609120 1552547 4644120 1552547 -3881248 -914437 15742917 16348480 0 0 15742917 16348480 Protect restore create and maintain native songbird habitat including fee simple or conservation easement ownership of real property and donations to and trades with other nonprofits with similar goals. Research survey monitor and manage songbird populations and their breeding biology with an emphasis on the recovery re-expansion and reintroduction of rare declining threatened and endangered songbirds but including all avian species. Remove non-native parasitic brown-headed cowbirds primarily through topical trapping to protect native songbirds. false false 2442 0 0 Coastal Conservation Lake Superior CC LS: Donation contributed by a Nonprofit 501c3s targeted to help protect keystone properties within several Coastal Conservation Areas on Lake Superior. The natural lands protected lie on the coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula an area that is nationally known to ornithologists especially for nesting wood warblers and large numbers of migrating birds songbirds raptors ducks geese and shorebirds. The lands along the lakeshore are the most threatened by development and all contributions received were designated for new acquisitions that linked to already protected natural areas thereby creating landscape level protection including continuous corridors of native habitat for birds and other wildlife. Expenses include closing costs on a land trade with non cash contribution in part to American Songbird 83 acres Deed title insurance prorated CFR taxes; see also 4b. 1528605 0 0 Four Bird Sanctuaries were acquired through purchase or trade 1,103 acres 800 feet of Lake Superior Shore: REVI Phase III 80 acres acquired in trade land swap for EVGR 80 acres adds to 2022-23 REVI Phases I & II 42 acres; now total of 122 acres Northern Waterthrush NOWA 83 acres 800 + - feet of shoreline acquired in trade for EVGR 240 acres $99,000 non cash contribution by nonprofit seller as part of Bargain Trade to American Songbird; see 4a. above FB 40 acres purchased and Phillipsville 900 acres purchased. Expenses include acquisition costs of the Sanctuaries including cost of land and closing costs; trades were closing costs only with NOWA trade cost in 4a above, 21500 0 0 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant NFWF G Ventura Audubon Society VAS: American Songbird partnered with VAS on National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant #67287 Least Bells Vireo Range Expansion Surveys CA. NFWF funded focused Least Bells Vireo Vireo bellii pusillus Vireo LBVI surveys and nest monitoring in native willow-dominated riparian habitat on the Central Coast of CA spring 2024 while American Songbird conducted non-native cowbird trapping and removal adjacent to LBVI nesting territories in Santa Barbara County in 2024. The 2024 Grant and Partnership built upon work conducted 2020-2023. Expenses include Fees for Services for Contracting the field work. 0 0 0 1552547 true false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false 1 0 true 0 false false false false false false false 0 false false false false 0 0 false false false 5 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false false false false false X Randee Smith 9063377248 PO BOX 2 AHMEEK MI 499010002 X Susan K Lafferty Secretary Chair 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Art Davenport Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Randee Smitth Vice-chair 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Jordy Kellogg Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jeff Steinman Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 false false false 0 0 0 0 0 99000 99000 99000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 539110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 638110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 540 540 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21500 21500 0 0 0 0 0 0 220 220 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bird Sanctuary Acquisition Exp: land cost, closing costs 1530287 1530287 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1552547 1552547 0 0 0 0 0 0 8786047 7772610 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8575870 0 6956870 8575870 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15742917 16348480 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 15742917 16348480 0 0 15742917 16348480 15742917 16348480 X -914437 0 0 0 0 1520000 X false false false X 0 35 184998 700202 638110 1523345 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 184998 700202 638110 1523345 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1523345 0 0 0 62670 539110 601780 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62670 539110 601780 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 184998 762872 1177220 2125125 X Part III - Line 1, Unusual Grant Lists | Name of the Contributor:, Date of Grant:, Year:, Amount:, Description:| Vanderploeg Charitable Remainder Trust11 16 2021, "2021", $23017383, Unusual Grant of securities worth $23,017,383 meets criteria that Contributor 1 was attracted by reason of the publicly supported nature of the nonprofit including incorporation filings and mission statement 2 the grant was unusual or unexpected with respect to the amount thereof and 3 the grant by reason of its size would adversely affect the status of the organization as being publicly supported. The Contributor is a disinterested person who has no relationship with the nonprofit they did not create it had not previously contributed a substantial amount nor stood in a position of authority and no material restrictions or conditions were imposed in connection with the Grant. Furthermore the Contributor does not directly or indirectly exercise control over the nonprofit nor does any disqualified person in relation to the contributor. And finally the organization has attracted a significant amount of public support 2022 and subsequent years including a Federal Grant| 8575870 8575870 8575870 X 1 99000 appraisal by certified appraiser 1 false false false Part VI, Line 11a All Board Members read and review the Form 990s but primarily the review is by the Chair or Vice Chair if Chair is not available Part VI, Line 12c At each Board Meeting all directors are required to disclosure a conflict of interest or even a perceived conflict of interest and abstain from votes as appropriate. Since the ASMAR Board is all volunteer financial conflicts of interest do not exist. Part XI, Line 9 | Description:, Explanation:, Amount:| Add $1,619,000 in land value 2024 acquisitions; subtract $99,000 in 2024 noncash contribution from a nonprofit that was included in revenue $1,619,000 - $99,000=$1,520,000, Add $1,619,000 in land value; sub $99,000 of revenue that was noncash contribution of land value, $1520000|