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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$8,983,643
Total expenses
$4,976,459
Contributions and grants received
$7,364,245
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$548,330
Investment income
$1,071,068
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$72,410,384
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,002,548
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$71,407,836
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,365,603
Management and general expenses
$305,995
Fundraising expenses
$304,861
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,365,603

Program services were 87.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $63,353

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $175,000

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $7,125,892

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $579,873

  • 2a · Program service revenue: DUES

    total $485,220 · excluded $485,220

  • 2b · Program service revenue: RESERVATION INCOME

    total $63,110 · excluded $63,110

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $501,003 · excluded $501,003

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $1,386,350

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $816,285

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $570,065

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $570,065 · excluded $570,065

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $65,786

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $63,353

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $65,786

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $288,882 · program services $144,441 · management and general $144,441

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,174,021 · program services $947,191 · management and general $40,390 · fundraising $186,440

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $100,782 · program services $78,099 · management and general $4,039 · fundraising $18,644

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $15,727 · program services $15,727

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $27,850 · management and general $27,850

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $46,350 · management and general $46,350

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $107,227 · program services $107,227

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $40,412 · program services $40,412

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $24,784 · program services $24,784

  • 17 · Travel

    total $19,560 · program services $19,560

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $81,950 · program services $81,950

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $45,392 · program services $45,392

  • 24a · Other expenses: OTHER FUND EXPENSES

    total $2,126,921 · program services $2,126,921

  • 24b · Other expenses: PAYROLL OVERHEAD EXPENSE

    total $325,617 · program services $236,082 · management and general $42,925 · fundraising $46,610

  • 24c · Other expenses: COMPUTER RELATED

    total $171,202 · program services $171,202

  • 24d · Other expenses: STEWARDSHIP

    total $157,859 · program services $157,859

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $221,923 · program services $168,756 · fundraising $53,167

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $757,117 · end of year $1,718,168

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $129,406

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $180

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $69,142 · end of year $51,745

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $50,883,115

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $1,312,017

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $46,553,973 · end of year $49,571,098

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $18,949,563 · end of year $20,359,452

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $238,714 · end of year $580,515

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $18,175 · end of year $88,375

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $306,057 · end of year $914,173

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $55,870,560 · end of year $59,470,962

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $10,373,897 · end of year $11,936,874

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LAND CONSERVATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION.

  • IN 2024, GREENBELT COMPLETED 13 CONSERVATION PROJECTS THAT PERMANENTLY PROTECTED 447 ACRES. WE MANAGED THE MORE THAN 400 GREENBELT FEE-OWNED PROPERTIES; COMPLETED DOZENS OF PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, AND FORMALLY MONITORED 137 CONSERVATION EASEMENTS ON 5,473 ACRES. WE HELD 90 IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL EVENTS,INCLUDING A FAMILY NATURE SERIES, WORKSHOPS, COMMUNITY EVENTS, AND A TRAIL RUN, WITH A COMBINED PARTICIPATION OF OVER 2,500 PEOPLE. 185 VOLUNTEERS ASSISTED US, AND WE WELCOMED 240 NEW MEMBERS AND 2,260 RETURNING MEMBER HOUSEHOLDS.

    Expenses $4,365,603

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Betsy Shields

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Alision Falk

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Bill Zola

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • David Chapin

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Timo Fritzinger

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Paulina Swartz

    ASSISTANT TR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Brad Aham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Sarah Hammond Creighton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Doug Deangelis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jim Dondero

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Stephen Goeben

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jessica Grigg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Mary Ellen Kelly

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Holly Langer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Josh Lerner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Peter Loring

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Annie Madden

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Nancy Pau

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jonathan Sherwood

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Regina Zaragoza Frey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Katherine Bowditch

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $133,142
    From this org
    $121,038
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,104
    Hours/week
    40

  • Christopher Lapointe

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $155,740
    From this org
    $141,582
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,158
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,582
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $14,158
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $155,740

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
5 June 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202502899349300615

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