2026-02-17T21:17:10Z 2025-06-30 990EZ 2025-01-01 843422784 TUBAC NATURE CENTER TUBA 4068126654 PO BOX 5123 Tubac AZ 85646 Wayne Iwen Treasurer 4068126654 2026-02-17 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://tubacnaturecenter.org/ X X 48374 X 15667 7388 8400 809 5600 825 4775 10510 5882 4628 41667 8432 600 200 6324 15556 26111 122020 148131 122020 148131 122020 148131 122020 148131 To provide education, appreciation and conservation of the natural environment with a focus on the Upper Santa Cruz River Valley of Arizona. 1. Santa Cruz River Habitat Conservation: In keeping with the 2023 Conceptual Master Plan for the Tubac Nature Preserve, conducted projects to protect and restore critical river habitats in the Santa Cruz River Floodplain in Tubac. These efforts are benefitting a minimum of 1500 people living in Tubac, plus others of unknown numbers visiting. The efforts will preserve habitats for birds and wildlife including several threatened species. a. Completed Wetland Restoration Plan under grant with Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area. b. Conducted four volunteer work events to restore habitats by removing invasive grasses in the river floodplain. Involved approximately 50 volunteers. c. Signed Memorandum of Understanding with landowner for wetland restoration including hydrological monitoring and engineering design of wetland restoration in the Tubac Borrow Pit, and to continue invasive plant control. d. Signed contract with Tucson Bird Alliance to conduct monitoring, and installed water flow meter and groundwater monitoring well. e. Applied for Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management Invasive Plant Grant to continue invasive plant control efforts. 0 8462 3. Nature Education 2025 a. The Tubac Nature Center has many activities that have the purpose of engaging people with an understanding of the natural environment. We have accomplished this by having learning activities such as bird walks, hikes, and nature walks that get people out in nature. We had over 800 attendees for these activities. b. We also have monthly lectures about various aspects of nature. For this time period, we had 150 people attend these informative lectures. c. We also have a program of outreach to the community by our presence in two festivals where we engage visitors to our booth with the natural environment through games and discussions about our upcoming activities. We have engaged over 1700 people at these events. d. We are also running specific activities for families to increase both adults and childrens awareness of the natural environment around them. These walks through the year and Family Day activities at the HawkWatch Festival involved over 120 children and adults. 1472 2. Conducted hawk watch in Ron Morriss Park, Tubac from February 15 to April 30, 2025, including 5-day hawk watch festival in March. a. The hawk watch is an annual event that provides valuable scientific data on populations of at least 15 species of raptors that migrate through Tubac each spring. b. The hawk watch festival raises awareness about the hawks and the conservation of the Santa Cruz River. Engaged 8 non-profit organizations in the festival. At least 2000 visitors attended the hawk watch and/or hawk watch festival. 0 863 10797 Michael Dunn President 15.00 0 0 0 Wayne Iwen Treasurer 10.00 0 0 0 Seth Ausubel Vice President 10.00 0 0 0 Helen Porter Secretary 10.00 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false AZ Wayne Iwen PO Box 5261 Tubac AZ 85646 4065809523 false false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 0 0 0 18505 33470 37275 60816 34655 184721 2620 4664 8588 8641 12910 37423 21125 38134 45863 69457 47565 222144 0 0 0 222144 15 19 25 16 809 884 0 15 19 25 16 809 884 0 0 21140 38153 45888 69473 48374 223028 X 0.99600 0.00000 0.00400 0.00000 Part I, Line 16 This is a short tax period return being filed for the 01/01/25 - 06/30/25 short tax period, intending to move the organization to a June 30 fiscal year going forward. Change in Accounting Period - The purpose of the short tax period return is to change the organization's tax period from the old December 31 year end to the new June 30 tax year end going forward, which aligns better with our natural business year. We are changing our fiscal year. We initially tried to timely file a form 990-N, but were unsuccessful because we couldn't get our new year end correctly into the software. We timely filed a Form 1128, but the IRS has not yet OK'ed the filing. We received a LTR 2645C stating that the IRS is still reviewing our request. We finally opted to file this 990-EZ to fulfill our obligation.