REPORT 2019–2020 ANNUAL RED CROSSBILL / KEN ARCHER / AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS WINTER 2020 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COMMUNITY SCIENCE Dear Members,

I don’t need to tell you that this has been an extraordinary This new plan strives to achieve five primary goals within One of Audubon’s greatest strengths has always been our community’s commitment to bird year. Within the pages of this Annual Report, you’ll three themes: urban conservation, equity, and resilience. monitoring. In addition to maintaining two of our own scientific surveys, Seattle Audubon coordinates local have the opportunity to reflect on all that we have efforts for two National Audubon Society projects. While COVID-19 limited some of our activities after accomplished from July 2019 through June 2020, ‘Resilience’ is a word that’s getting tossed around a March 2020, there is still so much that we accomplished. both before and in spite of the pandemic. Our lot lately, so I’d like to share a little about what urban conservation staff and volunteers it means to us at Seattle Audubon. Resilience Climate Watch have been on the front lines of the fight is about more than just surviving. It’s about, Puget Sound Seabird Survey (PSSS) to defend Seattle-area urban habitats, as our mission states, thriving. We aim to Last year’s PSSS had its fourteenth season and collected Seattle Audubon serves as the regional coordinator for our environmental educators have been come out stronger on the other side of seven months of data about wintering seabirds the National Audubon Society’s Climate Watch project, inspiring the next generation of activists, all this. In the past year, we have drawn throughout the U.S. portion of the Salish Sea. which seeks to determine how certain bird species are whether at school or online, and our strength from our community of members responding to climate change. In Seattle, our research • 154 survey sites community scientists dedicated thousands and donors, like you. focal species is the Red-breasted Nuthatch. Twice a year • 58 species recorded of hours to monitoring birds in local parks we monitor five survey sites including , • 57,380 individual birds recorded and the Southern Salish Sea. Seattle Audubon’s mission continues to inspire Park Arboretum, Hamlin Park, Boeing Creek us and make a real difference on the ground and, Park, and . While 2020 has brought many challenges to both people in the case of the birds, in the air. Thank you, valued Neighborhood Bird Project (NBP) and birds—the coronavirus, uprisings against systemic members, for being part of Seattle Audubon’s story last APHY AWARDS OTOGR Since 1994, Seattle Audubon volunteers have monitored N PH racism, record wildfires, worsening effects of climate year, and for your continued support in the brighter days UBO local parks for bird species diversity through our UD change—there was a time before and there will be a ahead. / A ITA Neighborhood Bird Project. Volunteers conduct year- I A time after. Through it all, Seattle Audubon will continue UM round surveys in nine urban locations throughout Seattle EG to deliver on our mission to advocate and organize for With gratitude, M / and Lake Forest Park. H cities where people and birds thrive. As tempting as it may TC A H • 225 surveys conducted T be to focus on all that is going wrong these days, we’re U N celebrating what we have achieved and looking to the • 114 species recorded D E T S future. • 18,237 individual birds recorded A E R B Claire Catania - D In June 2020, the Seattle Audubon Board of Directors E Executive Director Christmas Bird Count (CBC) R approved our 2020–2023 strategic plan, Cities at the Center. Each December, Seattle Audubon volunteers gather data on wintering birds. We submit our data, along with that of hundreds of other Audubon chapters, to the National OUR TEAM Audubon Society. The data is used by researchers across Seattle Audubon’s board and staff are passionate about our work for birds. They continue to show their strengths in leadership, the country and has resulted in over 300 peer-reviewed resilience, and innovation. Their many talents benefit our local communities, making them better places for birds and people. articles. Trends indicate that the 2019 species count was lower than typical, but individual bird count much higher. BOARD STAFF • 220 field counting volunteers OF DIRECTORS Hanae Bettencourt Carol Roll • 104 feeder watcher volunteers Associate Education Manager Development Director • 124 species and 50,270 individual birds recorded Mary Bond, Secretary Supriya Kumar, PhD Claire Catania Christine Scheele • Seattle Audubon has been participating for over 90 Executive Director Program Director Susan Marks, Treasurer years Catherine Maxson Anna Dukes Ansley Silva Member Services Assistant Nature Shop Co-Coordinator Jennifer McKeirnan, President Vice President Brendan McGarry Russell Steele Andrew Schepers, Nature Shop Co-Coordinator Finance & Operations Director Robert Sieh Joshua Morris Wendy Walker Jennifer Steele Urban Conservation Manager Community Engagement Manager Amanda Virbitsky Anna Murphy AmeriCorps Urban

2 Environmental Educator 6 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

HIGHLIGHTS HOPE WITH URGENCY Our talented education staff, in partnership with a team of committed volunteer instructors, are committed to providing age-appropriate, in-depth, and diverse subject matter to bird enthusiasts and naturalists at all levels. Many THE FINE LINE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION of our education programs have transitioned to a virtual format with a sliding scale fee structure to make them more accessible to anyone with a passion for bird knowledge and conservation. Climate change. Habitat loss. Endangered species. Global pandemic. Early Childhood Teens It’s quite easy these days to find an environmental can increase the livability of birds in our urban landscape. • Fledglings & Friends Toddler Story Time • Seattle Audubon had 16 Young Birders last year catastrophe to be worried about. It is also easy to look to Done in an age-appropriate manner, conservation issues • At The Nature Shop: 12 participants came to 8 who participated in field trips, monthly meetings, today’s youth and see resilience and hope for the future. It can be taught with action and hope as the driving story times and community science projects with the guidance is in this juxtaposition where Environmental Education lives. message. This is at the core of all Seattle Audubon Youth • Virtual on Vimeo: ‘Fledglings’ can now watch one of 8 volunteers. Through the program they explore programs. of six nature-themed stories online, with each Northwest ecology, gain naturalist skills, and are There is a fine line that any environmental educator must video yielding between 15–40 views making a positive contribution to the natural world. walk when teaching youth about the environment. Topics Over the next several months, we will be putting efforts • On the Road: 8 total field trips or visits to local like climate change, habitat loss, and endangered species into improving all of our youth education programs schools reached 267 ‘fledglings’ can be heavy for young souls when approached from a by embedding these age-appropriate conservation Adults doomsday perspective. So how does one approach the messages into Fledglings and Friends, Young Birders, • Field Trips: 243 people attended 47 field trips across subject without scaring young learners? Nature Camp, and more. With the retirement of FUN, Elementary School Washington the door is wide open for our team to develop a brand- • Finding Urban Nature (FUN): 29 teachers at 10 • Classes: 382 participants in 26 classes learned about The core goal of all environmental education programs is new school-age program that focuses on conservation schools chose to have their 727 students participate topics from birds, to photography, to native plants. to foster an appreciation for nature and to develop future and will reach a wide range of students in both public, in 8, hour-long sessions in their own schoolyard This included 12 classes and 213 attendees in our stewards of our environment. This goal is achieved in private, and home school settings. habitats new virtual format various age-appropriate ways in all of Seattle Audubon’s • Nature Camp: 384 campers attended youth education programs. The world can be a scary place. But it’s a lot less scary and West Seattle locations in the summer of 2019 All Ages when you have hope and the power of knowledge on • Education kit and bird specimen rentals: 27 rental kits Fledglings & Friends teaches 25 year-olds that all of your side. • Neighborhood Bird Walks: Last year, 39 walks took reached over 1022 people nature’s creatures are our friends, through stories, crafts, place around the region—building community and • Seattle Audubon received 109 art submissions from and outdoor exploration. Finding Urban Nature (FUN) By Hanae Bettencourt appreciation for what is in our own neighborhoods K–12 grade students for the Federal Junior Duck has spent the last 30+ years teaching 3rd and 4th graders Associate Education Manager and offering an important outlet for less experienced Stamp Conservation Program: Connecting Youth with that nature and its interconnections can be explored right birders to learn more Nature through Science & Art outside our front doors. Young Birders encourages teens to connect with their peers to share their love of birds and nature, as well as explore careers in the environmental field.

It would be a disservice to our youth to shield them from the troubles our world faces today. No matter how Wonderful camp experience for our two young, they are important members of the environmental boys. This is the third“ year we have done community and they should be empowered with the the Seattle Audubon camp and have been knowledge of these issues as well as the solutions to very pleased. My oldest learns a great deal combat them. For example, our Fledglings will learn how about his surroundings and teaches us bugs are an important source of food for local birds. when we are out hiking or camping! Young Birders will work with local environmental groups to learn about how simple habitat restoration projects —CAMP PARENT

4 URBAN CONSERVATION

HIGHLIGHTS SEATTLE’S URBAN FOREST Seattle Audubon serves the most populous area in the state with over one million residents sharing cities with over ADVOCATING ON BEHALF OF BIRDS AND PEOPLE 200 bird species. Rapid urbanization has brought both challenges and opportunities for people and birds in the Seattle area. Our Urban Conservation Program envisions people and birds thriving in our local communities and our conservation work continues to keep this as the focus.

Habitat Enhancement Protecting trees has been a priority at Seattle Audubon since 1916. • Represented on the Urban Forestry Commission for • Provided support for the following initiatives: Over 100 years later, we’re still a leading community During my presentation, I made sure stronger tree protection policies • Seattle Tree Protection Ordinance Member advocate for Seattle’s urban forest. In mid-December, to note that Seattle’s urban forest is • Collaborated with Urban Bird Treaty City partners Action Alert 2019, Councilmember Alex Pedersen invited me to present exceptionally diverse with over a to reduce pesticide use at and • Washington State lawsuit against the weakening to the Council’s Planning, Land Use, & Zoning Committee thousand different tree species, surrounding neighborhood and develop a vegetation of the Endangered Species Act regarding the City’s need for stronger tree protections. I subspecies, varieties, and plan for habitat enhancements along 11th Ave E in • Long-term Conservation Strategy for the was honored to present alongside staff from the Seattle cultivars. The trees in our urban Capitol Hill Marbled Murrelet on public lands and served on Department of Construction and Inspections, Seattle forest provide resources to • Provided leadership regarding bird-safe building the Murrelet Survival Project Coalition Office of Sustainability and Environment, Portland’s over 100 of Seattle’s terrestrial design, anticoagulant rodenticide use reduction, and • Friends of Arboretum Creek project to return Urban Forestry Team, and the University of Washington bird species, including forest- habitat connectivity to improve urban greenspaces diverted groundwater to the area School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. dependent species like the Brown and bird safety • Promoting United Government Efforts to Save Creeper, Pileated Woodpecker, and Our Sound (PUGET SOS) Act My message was simple: the most important thing we Varied Thrush. Birds like these often visit Community Engagement • Save Shoreline Trees efforts can do for our urban forest is to protect the trees neighborhoods and parks with big old trees and dense • Laid the groundwork for the use of Every Action we already have. Unfortunately, the City’s current tree canopy cover. However, data from Seattle Audubon’s • Strengthened Seattle Audubon Conservation platform to engage community support regulations do little to incentivize tree protection during Neighborhood Bird Project suggest that Seattlelites in Committee with 11 new and returning members • Participated in personal meetings with State Senator development and code violations are difficult to enforce. areas with less than 20% canopy cover may be unlikely representing educators, journalists, scientists, Reuvan Carlyle and then-council-candidate Alex Seattle Audubon and hundreds of other tree advocates to encounter these birds. Lower canopy neighborhoods arborists, landscape architects, and activists Pedersen on bird-friendly initiatives are calling for stronger, simpler, and smarter protections also tend to be lower income, which poses environmental • Supported the work of dozens of community to ensure that big developers maximize tree retention and justice and equity concerns. Exposure to nature, partners while sharing our love and concern for Urban Hazard Risk Protection replace the trees they remove. We’re also calling for the greenspace, and wildlife viewing opportunities is birds. Some partners included the Washington City to monitor tree loss and replacement, associated with a number of positive mental and physical Environmental Council, Capitol Hill EcoDistrict, • Hosted Bird-Safe Building presentation with bird to require public notice for tree health benefits and equitable access to these benefits is Delridge Neighborhood Development Association, collision expert Heidi Trudell removal, and to fund code still not a reality in Seattle. TreePAC, Tilth Alliance, and Save Shoreline Trees • Consulted with King County Wastewater on enforcement. • Connected with over 200 hundred of people at bird-safe building design A healthy, growing, protected, and equitably distributed community sustainability events • Funded Urban Raptor Conservancy’s urban forest is essential for the health, resilience, and well- • Made media appearances for local radio, newspaper, research on the presence of poison in being of Seattle communities, both human and avian. and podcasts related to wildlife response from the raptors and scavengers We’re proud of the advocacy work we accomplished pandemic, declining bird populations, and Audubon’s • Identified glass collisions as a top in 2019 and will continue to carry the banner of urban Climate Report priority in our Strategic Plan forest protection into a new decade. 2020–23, laying the groundwork Advocacy for our urban hazard work over By Joshua Morris the next three years Urban Conservation Manager Seattle Audubon advocated for new policies and actions • Educated hundreds of impacting birds and people in our flyway. Issues included participants at PAWS’s Catio adopting the Bird-safe Buildings Act, species protections, Tour on the wildlife impacts and supporting stronger tree protections in Seattle. from cats

6 PILEATED WOODPECKER / EDMUND PRESCOTTANO 7 AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS THE NATURE SHOP

The Nature Shop is more than a store, it is the face and the heart of Seattle Audubon. It serves as the primary landing point for our members, volunteers, and staff and is an invaluable conduit to our education, science, and conservation programs, connecting our local community to appreciation, understanding, and protection of birds.

The Nature Shop helps our local community connect with birds through our products and knowledge. Even as we closed our doors in March our expert staff launched our online shop, are standing by to answer all your bird questions by phone and provide contactless pick-up for all of your favorite products including:

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Children’s nature books and games Binoculars and spotting scopes Window-strike-prevention products Bird feeders and baths Field guides and local birding maps Bird-friendly, shade-grown coffee Wild bird seed and suet

SNOW GEESE / ROBERT SHUPAK / AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2019-20 AT A GLANCE

$ 700 96,000 $351,259 science survey pounds of birdseed sold total We love the opportunity to shop at volunteers in The Nature Shop contributions Seattle Audubon’s“ Nature Shop and thereby support our local Audubon’s programs. It’s our go to place to keep our feeders stocked of course, but the book selection is fabulous, the bird related gift items are always interesting, and one of us, unnamed, really likes the earrings. ♥ DAVID WILBUR & KAREN POWERS 3,124 125,887 3,049 member individual birds education program households recorded participants 8 9 FOX SPARROW / DAVID BOL / AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

VOLUNTEERS ARE HELPING US SOAR! VOLUNTEER VOICES

• Over 50 volunteers served on one or more of Seattle • 30 supported our bird-loving community with shifts Jane Sepede, a Seattle Audubon volunteer for over 30 years, tells us Audubon’s fifteen Committees at The Nature Shop about her passion for birds and commitment to The Nature Shop. • 9 served on the Board of Directors • 26 sustained The Nature Shop building, native plant • Over 700 people counted birds for our Community demonstration garden, and the on-site Why Birding? Why Seattle Audubon? Science Surveys lending library My whole family became bird watchers by osmosis. It’s Seattle has been my home for several decades now. There • 85 educated youth in the Fall of 2019 in Finding • 12 provided administrative support December 5 almost impossible not to be a birder growing up in is no better place to connect with the birding world Urban Nature (FUN) classrooms for Development is International New Jersey and spending summer vacations in than in The Nature Shop. I started volunteering Volunteer Day! Cape May, a birders’ paradise on the East almost 20 years ago and immediately found Coast Flyway. Learning to recognize all the a home away from home. The Nature fall warblers each year soon became a Shop has such a neighborhood feel to passion we all still enjoy—even my great it. I enjoy helping customers find the nephew, whose first word was “Bird.” products they need so they can feed their passions of caring for birds and enjoying My annual migration to the Jersey shore outings in nature. Being surrounded allows me to see my favorite bird, the Black by knowledgeable staff and visitors and Skimmer. Back in my younger days, we went discussing birds is a great way to spend the on many bird walks with Pete Dunne, the then day. Director of NJ Audubon’s Cape May Observatory and well known author. I remember those days as the real Why Not? glory days filled with excitement in my family’s shared Birding is a great stress release and should be practiced hobby which spanned into other vacation trips to enjoy daily, especially in these unusual times. Now that I have even more birds in such places as the Everglades, Baja retired, I’m spending more time watching backyard Birds are for everyone: But who are we leaving out? Peninsula, the Galapagos Islands, Africa, India and more. birds, going for safe walks at local parks and reading bird Bird watching has become a way of life and this longtime periodicals. I’m really looking forward to returning to The Seattle Audubon is committed to understanding and eradicating structural racial inequity at every level of our work, love of birds helps me relate to other interested bird Nature Shop some day and reconnecting with full-sized and creating spaces and programs that are accessible and welcoming to all. We realize that we have failed at engaging watchers in The Nature Shop. birding life again. Hope to see you there soon! Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) by not holding ourselves accountable to the work or allocating enough time and resources to be effective. Engaging all people that make up the Seattle-area community is critical as diverse perspectives strengthen our understanding of birds, our community, and the environment. As we continue to reflect and shift our culture, here is a look at some of our recent work around equity and justice.

Staff begin quarterly self-led “Lunch and Learns” on topics such as land acknowledgement, creating Sponsor and presenter at Refuge The Nature Shop stays current with Fall 2019 Winter Spring a transgender inclusive workplace, wheelchair hiking, and being a person of color in the field of Outdoor Festival, created by and the many books about diversity in conservation. Led by board member, Supriya Kumar, the Board approves creation of Equity, & 2020 geared towards people of color. 2019 birding and the outdoors. 2019 Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee.

Staff and volunteer leaders attend Community survey to identify barriers Seattle Audubon incorporates land acknowledgement language to recognize the Duwamish people in all Summer Fall Spring an ”Ally to Accomplice” training with to engagement with marginalized of our public meetings. Seattle Audubon awards “International Experience Scholarship” for a student or 2019 2020 ChrisTiana Obey-Sumner of Epiphanies communities. 2019 early-career professional from a community historically underrepresented in the environmental field. of Equity.

Board approves the 2020–2023 strategic plan, with a new mission, vision, and values statements that All classes offered with tiered ticket Want to join our efforts to make Seattle Audubon a Summer center people, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Includes a specific goal to “Develop and implement Fall prices, including a free option for place where everyone is welcome? We’re recruiting 2020 a plan to increase BIPOC leadership at the organization through internal analysis, and policy and 2020 participants to self-select a payment members for our Equity & Justice Committee. cultural changes.” EDI Committee is renamed Equity & Justice Committee. based on their financial ability. Contact [email protected] to find out more. 10 11 John McCoy and Cynthia Creasey AMERICAN GREAT BLUE HERONS THANK YOU! GOLDFINCHES Evy McElmeel Sandy and Gregory Miller Deborah and James Andrews Richard Monroe Chris Altwegg and Ellen Blackstone Lauren Anfenson Linda Anchondo and Marty Jackson Kenneth Naito Donors play a tremendous role in furthering our mission. We appreciate their generosity and financial Robert and Joanne Asanoma Claire Axley and Lucio and Ofelia Lindsey, Dave and Lisa Parkinson investment to save birds and habitat here in the Pacific Northwest. Ellen Bates Judith Roan Calleja Dave Baugh and Kay Peterson Baugh Jordan Rudd Diane and Lee Barnes Joanne Berwick and James Degel THANK YOU TO SEVERAL SPECIAL GROUPS OF DONORS WHO Michael Ryan Richard and Eleanore Baxendale Hanae Bettencourt and Shawn, Eddy ENHANCE AND SUSTAIN OUR PROGRAMS WITH THEIR GENEROSITY! James and Jessica Beattie Sai and Miles Samant and Rory Rielly and Luca Lackman Joanna Beitel Cassandra Sandkam and Anthony Luther F Black and Christina Wright Catanzaro Sarah and Alan Black Connie and Robert Blair Legacy Rare Holly Boone Robert Bowman Rosalie Borda Circle Birds Gregory Brigance Frequent Virginia Bound and Preston Hardison Frank and Laurie Brown Flyers Kjersti, Oscar, Frida and Arlo Shari Burns Braunstein This special group of 63 Maria, Noa and Maisie Carney We are proud to honor the Peter Briglia households are leaving a lasting long-standing loyalty of our Kathy Carson and Michael Healy

James Brooks and Lois Mustonen T Claire Catania, Adam Lucke and Edith legacy and commitment to Our 70 monthly donors provide 686 members that have been N Laura Brou and Jeff Butisbauch U O Catania Seattle Audubon by listing us in reliable and sustaining financial C supporting our work through Dan Burns and Mary Gresser- D R Rashmi and Rohan Chopra their will or estate plan. resources to Seattle Audubon. their membership for 20+ years. I B Burns D R Elaine Chuang A Leo Butzel and Roberta Reaber Y K A C Peggy Confer M A Tom Campion E B R T IC A Steven Connor A RE Larry and Lani Johnson Russell and Elsa Steele Thomas and Heather Catania N G GO / Keith Cowan BALD EAGLES LD IAN Paul and Kathy Lantz Peggy Stromme FINC RIST Jill Ericsson H / JOANIE CH Kristi and Hans de Grys Candis Litsey and Edward Young Randal Ternes Nancy Ericsson William Annette Mary DeRosas Susan Marks Carl Westphal Joel Erlitz Douglas Santoni Shannon Beasley-Bailey and Kirk Bailey Sarah DeWeerdt and Nora Rogers John Martin and Raelene Gold Ethel Williams John and Carol Farnsworth Kristi Sartnurak and Adam Sedgley Mary Ann Berrie Jana Dilley and Gwen Dillstrom Teri Martine Anonymous (2) Joyce and Al Ferkovich Andrew Schepers Mary Bond and André Wilson Lavinia and Ray Downs Colene Mckee and William Denzel Vanessa Gemmell Jean Schweitzer Jane K and Marshall Brown Phyllis and Roland Dukes Jennifer McKeirnan Alan Greenbaum and Laura Thorne Judson Scovill Caroline Hartshorne Carroll Pamela and Kenneth Eakes Sandra Moss Deborah and Mark Hamby Meir Stampfer Jill Chelimer and Dan Johnson Diane Eileen and Shirly Yee Suanne and Wesley Nagata Anne Hay and John Leigh Susan and Philip Stoller Toni Jude Ciardullo Martha and Eugene Nester Deborah Heiden Robert and Ethel Story Joanne Cleland Jerry and Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser Marie and Charles Hoffman Mary Anne Thorbeck Terri Conner Mary Pigott J. Marilyn Holstad Rose Thygesen Catherine Conolly and Rodney Brown Allyn and William Rathman Claire Jackson Keith and Winifred Unterschute Jerry Davis Randon Robinson Dianne Johnson Margaret Walker Diane Doles and Jonathan Cooper Thomas Rohrer and Mark Johnson Cynthia Wang and Les Beletsky I support Seattle Audubon every Brett Eaton Valerie Weber Kate and Albert Werner “ Laura Melinda and Bruce Jones way I can because it magnifies all Neil Ericsson and Karen Florini Frances Rondestvedt Frederick Klein Joeve and Porter Wilkinson our voices for the sake of birds and Birte and James Falconer John and Ellie Roser Supriya, Kabir and Sameera Kumar Tom and Ruth Williamson-Kirkland nature. For more than a century, Anne and Jon Fox the organization has stood for Klaus and Marion Kyle Lam Jim and Jackie Wrycha integrity, science, community, Grant, Alex and Max Gardner Schutz Sarah Yeager Robert Leach and Catherine Otto and effective action. Today these Katharyn Gerlich Alex, Constance David Longmuir Carleen and Neil Zimmerman values are more important than Mark Groudine and Cynthia Putnam and John Sidles Douglas Marshall Anonymous ever—especially at the local level. Lenore Hanauer Lynne Smith Catherine Maxson Jon Hoekstra and Jen Steele Eric Smith —CONNIE SIDLES 12 BALD EAGLE / BRIAN KUSHNER / AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS MEMBER SINCE 1991 Kim, Katie and Joe Kelly Harvey Sadis and Harriett Cody Mary and Allan Kollar Morgan Schulte and Dorian Collins FINANCIAL STATEMENT Penny, David, and Emily Koyama Erik Schweighofer Shareen Kruse Edward Slazinik and Carole Palmer Eric and Alannah Laret Arn and Kathy Slettebak Seattle Audubon is a local, independent, nonprofit organization that relies on funding from a variety of sources Nanette and John Latham Julie and Samuel Smith to succeed at its mission—individual gifts, memberships, grants, investment income, and earned income such as Elizabeth Leber and Peter John Spoden class and Nature Camp registrations and proceeds from The Nature Shop. Seattle Audubon is in a secure position Coveler Steve and Liann Sundquist financially thanks to this diversity in revenue. S D Tor and Tiffany Linbo R Anne Thomas A

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Y Julie, Matt, Max and Lila Luthy FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 2019–JUNE 30, 2020 H Nancy Tipton P A R Eric Mandel G Judy Tomassene O T O Andrew McCormick and Carol Holly Townes and Gary Witzel This is the July 1, 2019–June 30, 2020 summary of our finances. At the time of publication the audit for these H P Carlson-Ray N William and Donna Van Buren financials was under review. Complete Seattle Audubon financial statements are available upon request. BO DU Jennifer and Mark McDonald AU Sharon Wada S / GRE ILE Charline McDonald PROFIT & LOSS STATEMENT BALANCE SHEET AT B ERT G Bill Way and Erica Tiedemann LUE HERON / ROB Bill McJohn Herbert and Sharlene Welsh Robert McKeirnan Kelly White REVENUE ASSETS Robin and Ann Melvin Megan Elfman Harriet Winkelman Membership $ 148,232 Cash & Cash Equivalents $ 371,875 Harriet Mendels Lynda Elkin and Jared Knickmeyer Maura Wixey Contributions $ 353,952 Investments $ 2,456,255 Joan Miller Sharon Ellard and Tom Merritt Fritz Wollett Bequests & Legacies $ 35,008 Receivables $ 23,898 Ronda and Brad Miller Stephen Elston Yi Wen Wong In-Kind Contributions $ 24,465 Merchandise Inventory $ 282,739 Anne Mize Prepaid Expenses $ 14,873 Susan Ewens Susan Yates Grants $ 54,725 Heather Moldovany Sales (net) $ 201,550 Land, Building, & Equipment $ 489,792 Linda Falconer Mitch and Gail Yockey Joshua Morris Program Fees $ 178,559 Sara Field Daniel Zak and Anisha Shankar Alex Nachman Investments $ 80,168 David Fliegel and Susan Boyd Anonymous (4) TOTAL ASSETS $ 3,639,432 Laura and Granger Ford Carole and Karl Neice Marlene and David Foster Tammy Nelms TOTAL REVENUE $ 1,076,659 LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS Serena Friedman Katherine Newton Liabilities Christopher Garg David and Laura Nicol CORPORATE DONORS $ 260,158 EXPENSES Payables & Accrued Expenses Rachel Garson and Mike Storie Vicki Nino Osby Programs* 693,380 Leah Glass Berl and Karen Nussbaum Acorn Development $ Total Liabilities $ 260,158 Administration $ 199,298 Karen, Elliott and Oliver Grace Patricia Oelwein Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funding the Mission $ 168,119 Net Assets Barbara Gross and Jim Fiero Brian Olpin Boeing Employee Credit Union Without donor restrictions $ 1,316,302 Nancy Grout Matthew Oostman Boeing Matching Gifts Program TOTAL EXPENSES 1,060,797 With donor restrictions $ 2,062,972 Lindsay Halm Gordon Orians Grounds for Change $ Lucky Seven Foundation Owen Hamel, Leah Rose and Arlo Christopher Osborn and Kyle Samuels * Includes the work of Urban Conservation, Education, Community Total Net Assets $ 3,379,274 Hamel Joan Ostendorff Microsoft Corporation Science, Community Engagement and The Nature Shop Susan Hamilton and Timothy Bates Sean Overland and Rebecca Bliquez Schneider Electric North America TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS $ 3,639,432 Fred Hanson Wayne Palsson Foundation Michael Harding Samuel Pettis Starbucks Coffee Company Lora Heiny and Rhys Sorenson-Graff Gloria Pfeif The Bullitt Foundation REVENUE DETAIL EXPENSE DETAIL Carol Hosford Gloria and Steven Pumphrey United Way of King County 3% 2% 5% Kathleen Hunt Washington Waterfowl Association John and Suzanne Rahn Contributions Grants 15% Education & Engagement Deborah Jacobsen Rodney Reagor and James Fox 7% 33% Sales Bequests 32% Administration Elisabeth Jaech Franklin Retherford 14% Programs In-kind 16% Neeloofar, Kian and Kimia Jenks This list reflects gifts of $250 or more made Conservation & Science Joan, Tess and Donald Roberts to Seattle Audubon July 1, 2019–June 30, Memberships Funding the Mission Richard Johnson Karen Ruppert 2020. A full list of all of our donors can be 17% 19% 18% 19% Jerry Joyce Carole E Rush and Richard Andler found on our website, seattleaudubon.org. Investments The Nature Shop 14 15 NONPROFIT ORG. Seattle Audubon Society U.S. POSTAGE 8050 35th Avenue Northeast PAID SEATTLE, WA Seattle, WA 98115 PERMIT NO. 7918 seattleaudubon.org

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