Deep Forest Field School Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
The organization's primary exempt purpose is forest conservation.
- Income
- $0
- Spending
- $3,472
- Reserves
- 16 months of spending
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- Sustainability Program (supported by Donations): Paideia School. Consultations with Paideia School on forest management as an educational opportunity while controlling invasive species. 50 hours, time donated. [Cost: a portion of office expenses].Machete Man: [Suspended this year due to illness of Jeremy Dahl]Education and Research Program. Efforts to sustain both temperate and tropical forests continued, and aiming to increase the publics attention to saving their unique inhabitants - gliding mammals. Applying aerodynamic principles we made life size, three dimensional models of:1. Twenty species of modern glider from nine genera including the Dermoptera (Colugos) - most closely related to Primates as a possible ancestral form.2. Seven genera of modern primates and six fossil species constructed with hypothetical wing membranes;3. Two species of modern Megachiroptera, (Pteropus) and a fossil bat, Archaeopteropus transiens.Models were made in up to six configurations (planiforms) for each taxon. Their aerodynamic characteristics (span, chord, aspect ratio, and load) were measured. Analyses show that the most effective forms of aerial locomotion include parachuting, paragliding, and while soaring. The hypothetical models of all but two of the Primates would have been capable of flight. Developing appropriate scaling methods for volant mammals ranging from .01 kg to 2.75 kg is ongoing.895 hours of work donated. [Cost: a portion of office expenses].
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Worth knowing.
Status was revoked on May 15, 2011 for not filing returns for three years, and reinstated on May 15, 2011.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 2014.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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