As you start to think about maybe getting ready to plan doing your taxes at some point in the near future, keep in mind the Chickadee Checkoff on line 57 of form 1040!
This Chickadee Checkoff provides funding for the Iowa DNR's Wildlife Diversity Program, which helps to improve habitat for non-game wildlife as well as restore species whose populations had been lost from our area like Trumpeter Swans, Osprey, and Prairie Chickens. The program also monitors wildlife populations and creates long-term plans to preserve and maintain them.
Right now less than half of one percent of Iowa taxpayers--that's only around 7200 people--donate via the Chickadee Checkoff, far fewer than donated when the fund was initially established in the 1980s. Were you one of them?
The average donation was right around $20.
We can do better! Tell your tax preparer (or yourself!) you want to donate a portion of your refund to the Fish/Wildlife Fund. You just enter the amount you want to donate on the appropriate line of your IA-1040 and it will be deducted from your refund. You can donate as little as a dollar.
That's not a lot to ask to help support Iowa's wildlife and healthy ecosystems for future generations, is it?
Previous years' somewhat more eloquent exhortations can be perused here (2017) and here (2019)
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