Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$2,026,366

Total expenses

$995,038

Contributions and grants received

$1,847,043

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$139,300

Investment income

$10,755

Other revenue

$29,268

Total assets, end of year

$3,779,645

Total liabilities, end of year

$769,762

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,009,883

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$802,943

Management and general expenses

$110,637

Fundraising expenses

$81,458

Program service expenses (Part III)

$802,943

Program services were 80.7% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• SEE SCHEDULE O FOR DESCRIPTION. TUG HILL TOMORROW LAND TRUST (THTLT) IS COMMITTED TO CONNECTING WITH PARENTS AND CHILDREN, FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. WE KNOW IT IS IMPORTANT TO INSTILL A LOVE OF CONSERVATION AT AN EARLY AGE IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO CARE FOR THE LAND AS ADULTS. TO THAT END, THTLT HOLDS A VARIETY OF FIELD TRIPS, PROGRAMS AND EVENTS TO GET PEOPLE OUT ON THE LAND AND EXPERIENCING A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN A VARIETY OF LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE TUG HILL REGION. THTLT ALSO WORKS WITH LOCAL DAY CARE CENTERS AND SUMMER SCHOOL-AGED PROGRAMS TO PRESENT ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT GET KIDS EXCITED ABOUT BEING OUTSIDE. THTLT HAS PRODUCED A FIELD GUIDE FOR THE TUG HILL REGION WHICH PROVIDES DETAILED INFORMATION IN A FRIENDLY WAY SO PEOPLE CAN EASILY FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE SEEING. THTLT ULTIMATELY HOPES THESE PROGRAMS AND MATERIALS WILL FOSTER A LOVE OF THE LAND AND THE DESIRE TO TAKE CARE OF IT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. THTLT ULTIMATELY HOPES THESE PROGRAMS AND MATERIALS WILL FOSTER A LOVE OF THE LAND AND THE DESIRE TO TAKE CARE OF IT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

  Expenses $121,918

• SEE SCHEDULE O FOR DESCRIPTION.THTLT WORKS WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNERS TO PROTECT WORKING FOREST, FARMS RECREATION AND WILD LANDS IN NORTHERN NEW YORK'S 2,100 SQUARE MILE TUG HILL REGION AND SURROUNDING AREAS. THE TUG HILL REGION COVERS PARTS OF JEFFERSON, LEWIS, ONEIDA AND OSWEGO COUNTIES. WE DO THIS MAINLY THROUGH VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION EASEMENTS. IN 2022 WE CLOSED ON ONE DONATED CONSERVATION EASEMENT, THREE PURCHASE OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHT CONSERVATION EASEMENTS WITH THE ARMY COMPATIBLE USE BUFFER (ACUB) PROGRAM, AND TWO FEE LAND ACQUISITIONS, IN HERKIMER, JEFFERSON, LEWIS, & SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTIES. JUNE SAW THE CLOSING OF THE PETER FENNER EASEMENT PROJECT, A DONATED FORESTRY CONSERVATION EASEMENT ON HIS PROPERTY TOTALING 205 ACRES IN THE TOWN OF RUSSIA, HERKIMER COUNTY. THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT AREA TO CONSERVE SINCE IT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (TNC) AS AN IMPORTANT CONNECTION FOR WILDLIFE EXTENDING FROM THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS UP INTO CANADA-AN IMPORTANT MIGRATION CORRIDOR GIVEN THE CHANGING CLIMATE. AT STAKE ARE NUMEROUS WILDLIFE, ESPECIALLY ANIMALS LIKE BLACK BEAR WHICH CAN MOVE AS FAR AS 10 MILES A DAY. IN JULY, THE LAND TRUST WAS ABLE TO WORK TOWARDS MEETING ONE OF ITS MOST RECENT STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVES OF HAVING A PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA IN EACH OF THE CORE COUNTIES IT PROTECTS, BY ADDING A PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA IN LEWIS COUNTY. THE MOHAWK HILL PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA, 77.57 ACRES IN TOWN OF WEST TURIN, WAS TRANSFERRED TO US AFTER MANY YEARS OF WETLAND MITIGATION WORK AND BIRD HABITAT CREATION BY DUCKS UNLIMITED. THTLT CLOSED ON THREE OTHER PROPERTIES IN NOVEMBER THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE ACUB PROGRAM, AND WERE PROTECTED BY PURCHASED CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, ALL IN THE TOWN OF ROSSIE, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY. THE CHAD SOPER EASEMENT, 100 ACRES; THE PHELPS EASEMENT, 116 ACRES; AND THE DESORMEAUX II EASEMENT, 70 ACRES; ARE ALL IN A REGION THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY FORT DRUM AND PARTNERS AS FOCUS AREAS WHOSE PROTECTION WOULD BENEFIT MISSION, NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE COMMUNITY. WE ALSO ACQUIRED 314.26-ACRES IN THE TOWN OF LERAY, JEFFERSON COUNTY, THROUGH THE ARMY COMPATIBLE BUFFER AREA (ACUB) PROGRAM THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY CONTECH BUILDING SYSTEMS OF GOUVERNEUR NY. THIS IS THE SECOND PROPERTY WE OWN THROUGH ACUB, AND ADDS ADDITIONAL ACREAGE TO A KNOWN ENDANGERED BAT ROOSTING AREA, THE 101.69-ACRE DAVID S. SMITH PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA, DEDICATED IN APRIL, AND WILL BE MANAGED FOR BAT AND POLLINATOR HABITAT. WE ARE CONTINUALLY WORKING TO OPEN THIS ENTIRE PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC BY CREATING A PARKING AREA, TRAILS AND INTERPRETIVE SIGNAGE.THTLT HAS BEEN PARTNERING WITH FT. DRUM AND DUCKS UNLIMITED ON THE ARMY COMPATIBLE USE BUFFER PROGRAM (ACUB) WHICH PURCHASES EASEMENTS, AND NOW FEE ACQUISITIONS, ON LAND AROUND FT. DRUM TO LIMIT THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALLOW THE ARMY TO MAXIMIZE TRAINING ON POST. IN 2022 WE COMPLETED THE SECOND FEE ACQUISITION THROUGH THE ACUB PROGRAM ON 314.26-ACRES IN THE TOWN OF LERAY, JEFFERSON COUNTY, WHICH IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DAVID S. SMITH PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA, WILL BE MANAGED FOR ENDANGERED BAT AND POLLINATOR HABITAT. TO DATE WE HAVE PROTECTED 9,140 ACRES USING CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND FEE ACQUISITIONS THROUGH THIS PROGRAM. AT THE END 2022, WE HAVE PROTECTED 21,251 ACRES WITH CONSERVATION EASEMENTS THROUGHOUT TUG HILL. IN ADDITION TO OUR CONSERVATION EASEMENT HOLDINGS, THTLT ALSO OWNS FOUR PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREAS, THE 140- ACRE JOSEPH BLAKE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY IN THE TOWN OF RUTLAND, JEFFERSON COUNTY, THE 120-ACRE FRENCH SETTLEMENT ROAD PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA IN THE TOWN OF LORRAINE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, THE 416-ACRE DAVID S. SMITH PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA IN THE TOWN OF LERAY, AND THE NEWEST PROPERTY, THE MOHAWK HILL PUBLIC CONSERVATION AREA, 77.57 ACRES IN THE TOWN OF WEST TURIN LERAY. THE LAND TRUST IS CONTINUOUSLY WORKING TO OPEN ALL 757 ACRES OF OUR FEE OWNED PROPERTY, NOT ALREADY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BY CREATING A PARKING AREAS, TRAILS AND INTERPRETIVE SIGNAGE AS FUNDING AND STAFF TIME ALLOW.

  Expenses $681,025 · Revenue $151,320

As filed on the 2022 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

8 June 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202331599349301313

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