Form 990 for tax year 2025

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2025 , filed 1 April 2026. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.

Totals

Total revenue

$10,166,862

Total expenses

$9,074,168

Contributions and grants received

$9,911,615

Grants paid

$2,654,784

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$254,268

Other revenue

$979

Total assets, end of year

$11,248,294

Total liabilities, end of year

$333,474

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$10,914,820

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$7,142,295

Management and general expenses

$1,075,215

Fundraising expenses

$856,658

Program service expenses (Part III)

$7,142,295

Program services were 78.7% 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 · 2025

• 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 bi-annual conference, the Friends' Grassroots Network Summit.

  Expenses $4,113,237 · Grants $2,644,284

• 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 $2,487,954 · Grants $10,500

• 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 $541,104

As filed on the 2025 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

• Mojave Desert Land Trust

  $410,000

  Promote conservation

• Transition Habitat Conservancy

  $225,000

  Promote conservation

• Friends of the Inyo

  $155,000

  Promote conservation

• Friends of the Desert Mountains

  $110,500

  Promote conservation

• New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

  $108,500

  Promote conservation

• CactusToCloud Institute

  $84,000

  Promote conservation

• Friends of the Owyhee

  $83,500

  Promote conservation

• Archaeology Southwest

  $80,000

  Promote conservation

• Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve

  $71,500

  Promote conservation

• Bears Ears Partnership

  $70,000

  Promote conservation

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

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

1 April 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.1

Source object

202631129349301488

Check it against the return as filed: the GivingTuesday Data Lake hosts a public copy of the original XML.

The source document this was parsed from is served over the API, which is where bulk and document access live.