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← WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST INC

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,275,102
Total expenses
$2,014,128
Contributions and grants received
$2,801,375
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$552
Investment income
$526,930
Other revenue
-$53,755
Total assets, end of year
$26,052,642
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,451,213
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$24,601,429
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,611,777
Management and general expenses
$208,377
Fundraising expenses
$193,974
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,611,777

Program services were 80.0% 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

    $408,501

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $730,451

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,662,423

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $15,877

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Service fees

    total $552 · related or exempt $552

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $125,476 · excluded $125,476

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $35,880

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $37,066

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property -$1,186

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total -$1,186 · excluded -$1,186

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $1,343,802 · other assets $670,000

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

    securities $925,846 · other assets $686,502

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $417,956 · other assets -$16,502

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $401,454 · excluded $401,454

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $52,777

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

    $408,501

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $117,161

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$64,384 · excluded -$64,384

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other

    total $11,815 · related or exempt $11,815

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $11,815

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $146,347 · program services $73,174 · management and general $14,634 · fundraising $58,539

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $625,286 · program services $447,353 · management and general $86,748 · fundraising $91,185

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $15,935 · program services $10,749 · management and general $2,094 · fundraising $3,092

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $51,517 · program services $34,752 · management and general $6,769 · fundraising $9,996

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $60,984 · program services $41,139 · management and general $8,012 · fundraising $11,833

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $78,148 · program services $65,957 · management and general $12,191

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $82,091 · program services $82,091

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $44,025 · management and general $44,025

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $18,043 · program services $6,421 · management and general $2,916 · fundraising $8,706

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $70,350 · program services $54,804 · management and general $13,982 · fundraising $1,564

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $23,531 · program services $17,758 · management and general $2,081 · fundraising $3,692

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $47,080 · program services $40,018 · management and general $4,708 · fundraising $2,354

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $17,900 · program services $16,384 · management and general $1,516

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $28,867 · program services $24,537 · management and general $2,887 · fundraising $1,443

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $35,770 · program services $28,386 · management and general $5,814 · fundraising $1,570

  • 24a · Other expenses: Land preservation costs

    total $544,394 · program services $544,394

  • 24b · Other expenses: Land stewardship costs

    total $123,860 · program services $123,860

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $998,153

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $74,306 · end of year $1,599,452

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $46,030 · end of year $475,898

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $125,500

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $71,232 · end of year $98,443

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

    $2,377,022

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

    $766,259

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,659,972 · end of year $1,610,763

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $6,267,045 · end of year $5,308,108

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $16,285,497 · end of year $16,834,478

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $76,910 · end of year $103,213

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $350,000 · end of year $1,000,000

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $217,000 · end of year $348,000

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $19,071,821 · end of year $19,586,254

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,686,504 · end of year $5,015,175

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural features or values.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural and aesthetic environment and resources of Westchester County, eastern Putnam County and its environs.

  • WLT permanently preserves regionally and locally prioritized land in urban, suburban, and rural communities throughout its service territory of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. Its land preservation efforts serve the public benefit by protecting drinking water, air quality, natural wildlife habitats, trails for passive recreation, agricultural lands, and urban green spaces, as well as contributing to natural carbon sequestration efforts that combat climate change. - continued on Schedule O -Since its founding in 1988 WLT has preserved more than 9,000 acres of open space, and 20 miles of hiking trails in 23 communities. WLT has protected properties ranging from 1/4 acre to over 600 acres. In 2022, WLT preserved an additional 179 acres across 3 projects. In 2022, community members enjoyed more than 45,000 visits to WLT's preserves which are free and open to the public year-round. WLT partners with the State of New York, Westchester and Putnam County, private landowners, and local governments to acquire and preserve land.WLT is committed to community education about the protection of natural resources, wildlife habitats and sustainable agriculture. WLT collaborates with dozens of national, regional, and local organizations to advance its mission. WLT works in urban communities through food justice programming and conservation projects. WLT's mobile education exhibit appeared at 15 events in 2022. WLT's headquarters, Sugar Hill Farm, is the site of a half-acre organic garden, where vegetables are grown by volunteers for distribution to local food pantries. In its 11 years of operation, Sugar Hill Farm has produced more than 82,000 servings of fresh produce for local families in need. In 2022, volunteers donated nearly 1,200 hours of time to WLT's food pantry farm, nature preserves, and operations and nearly half of all volunteers were under the age of 18. WLT staff provide technical assistance to farmland owners and farmers seeking land and use a previously urban conservation feasibility study to guide its new work in urban communities.WLT accomplishes this through habitat restoration projects at WLT preserves, education programs about land stewardship and community resiliency, and guided volunteer events at its preserves. WLT's protected lands are home to more than 1,300 species of native plants and animals. Land stewardship is an important component of WLT's mission. WLT regularly conducts land management and habitat restoration projects on publically accessible lands that it owns or holds conservation easements on. In 2022, WLT hired 30 youth conservationists to tackle forest health restoration projects on its preserves. WLT also employed 2 paid college conservation apprentices who learned all aspects of land trust work.

    Expenses $1,611,777 · Revenue $12,367

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Bruce Churchill

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nancy Karch

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Edgar

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Ferguson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Ansel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Clifford H Aronson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Christopher Boege

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nanette Bourne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dina Dublon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Douglas M Kraus

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Lee Manning-Vogelstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Gary Perusse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Offutt A Porter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Renee Ring

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Norma Silva

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jennifer Schwartz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Carine Verschueren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Marc Weisenfreund

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dr Diana Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Matt Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Lori Ensinger

    President (1/1 - 9/13)

    Total calculated
    $136,813
    From this org
    $136,813
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,813
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $136,813
  • Kara H Whelan

    President (9/13 - 12/31)

    Total calculated
    $146,347
    From this org
    $146,347
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
2022
Filed
30 August 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202332429349300133

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