PROPAGATIONNATION
EIN 83-3715370 · Forest Conservation (C36)
What they do
TREE PROPAGATION and DISTRIBUTION. PROPAGATIONNATION is AN INTERGENERATIONAL MOVEMENT to RENEW THE ENVIRONMENT BY PLANTING COAST REDWOODS and GIANT SEQUOIAS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. WE CONTRACT WITH NURSERIES to HAVE REDWOOD and SEQUOIA SEEDLINGS GROWN and EITHER SELL or GIVE THOSE SEEDLINGS to INDIVIDUALS and ORGANIZATIONS to PLANT THOSE SEEDLINGS to REFOREST THE NORTHWEST WITH REDWOOD and SEQUOIA TREES. THIS PROGRAM PRODUCES EARNED INCOME. 40,000 TREES WERE DISTRIBUTED IN THE PLANTING SEASON FALL 2024-SPRING 2025 and 40,000 MORE TREES WERE DISTRIBUTED IN THE PLANTING SEASON FALL 2025-SPRING 2026.
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Leadership and board
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Board and leadership roster (9)
DAVID BROWNDIRECTOR (FROM NOV 2025)
DEAN HOVESECTRETARY & TREASURER (FROM JULY)
DEBBIE OBERBILLIGSECRETARY (THRU NOV 2025)
KATHLEEN MAHANDIRECTOR
LINDA BROWNDIRECTOR (FROM NOV 2025)
LYNN GRANTVICE PRESIDENT
PHILIP STIELSTRAPRESIDENT
RAFAEL ARAYADIRECTOR (FROM DEC 2025)
SCOTT SHOOKDIRECTOR
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2019
- Location
- 4823 70TH AVENUE CT W, UNIVERSITY PL, WA 98467-3232
- County
- Pierce
- In care of
- % PHILIP STIELSTRA
- Primary officer
- PHILIP STIELSTRA, PRESIDENT
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Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2025
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2025
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- WEGNER CPAS LLP
- NTEE classification
- Forest Conservation (C36)
- IRS tax category
- Forest Conservation