Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$6,946,945

Total expenses

$8,305,217

Contributions and grants received

$6,672,226

Grants paid

$2,087,765

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$253,303

Other revenue

$21,416

Total assets, end of year

$10,073,993

Total liabilities, end of year

$295,263

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$9,778,730

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,759,754

Management and general expenses

$698,669

Fundraising expenses

$846,794

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,759,754

Program services were 81.4% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Constituency Development Program: The Foundation works hand-in-hand with 80 plus organizations and hundreds of citizen advocates throughout the nation. Giving them financial and professional resources for policy, legal, restoration and advocacy work. Their individual strength and success on the ground authentically builds our collective impact, translating to bigger, better and more enduring protections for National Conservation Lands. Resources include but are not limited to: Grants for project-specific work; grants for general support and organizational development; fundraising support, including trainings and resource development; consulting for legal, policy or technical help; trainings for board and staff development; media engagement and communications training; restoration projects and participation at our annual conference, the Friends' Grassroots Network Summit.

  Expenses $3,758,177 · Grants $2,072,765

• Policy and Legal/Conservation Campaigns: The Foundation leads a national movement of community-based advocates to care for America's National Conservation Lands of environmental, cultural and recreational significance. To achieve this, we are building place-based, local proposals to identify places that are worthy of durable and lasting protections now and for future generations. Our work ensures that the voices of conservationists, business owners, sportsmen, Native Americans and others from these local communities are respected and reflected in conservation management policies. This program builds and conveys grassroots and national support for lands deserving of National Conservation Lands designation and improved management policies. CLF also works with our partners to promote and defend the Antiquities Act and other policies vital to caring for America's National Conservation Lands.

  Expenses $1,906,287 · Grants $15,000

• Communications Program: The goal of the communications program is to increase awareness of the values and beauty of the National Conservation Lands to the American people and hold policymakers accountable for their conservation. CLF works with its Friends Grassroots Network and other allies to pursue media coverage of the National Conservation Lands.

  Expenses $991,983

• Western Arctic Program: The Conservation Lands Foundation is participating in a coalition of conservation groups, scientists, sportsmen and community members and working with Alaska Natives to advance meaningful protections for the Western Arctic's 11 million acres of Special Areas while ensuring that oil and gas development on lands available for leasing causes the least amount of impact to the region's sensitive lands and wildlife.

  Expenses $103,307

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

  $100,000

  Promote conservation

• Friends of the Owyhee

  $90,000

  Promote conservation

• Archaeology Southwest

  $80,000

  Promote conservation

• Friends of the Inyo

  $80,000

  Promote conservation

• Bears Ears Partnership

  $70,000

  Promote conservation

• Get Outdoors Nevada

  $65,000

  Promote conservation

• Conserve Southwest Utah

  $60,000

  Promote conservation

• Dolores River Boating Advocates

  $60,000

  Promote conservation

• Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks

  $60,000

  Promote conservation

• Mojave Desert Land Trust

  $60,000

  Promote conservation

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 April 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202411289349300931

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