DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C32

Classification

1000

Street

206 S IOWA ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• LAND CONSERVATION - SINCE 2000, DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY HAS PROTECTED OVER 10,000 ACRES OF FARMS, FORESTS, PRAIRIES, AND WETLANDS. IN 2025, THE CONSERVANCY PROTECTED OVER 1200 ACRES OF WOODLANDS, PRAIRIE, PASTURE, AND FARMLAND. THE CONSERVANCY ALSO STEWARDED 1300 ACRES OF DALC AND PARTNER-OWNED NATURE PRESERVES INCLUDING THE APPLICATION OF PRESCRIBED FIRE, INTER-SEEDING NATIVE SPECIES AND INVASIVE SPECIES CONTROL. THE CONSERVANCY CONTINUES TO LEAD THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRIFTLESS TRAIL, COORDINATE THE LOWERY CREEK WATERSHED INITIATIVE, AND PARTICIPATE IN THE SOUTHERN DRIFTLESS GRASSLANDS PARTNERSHIP.

  Expenses $769,264 · Grants $54,099 · Revenue $137,998

• ADVOCACY - THE CONSERVANCY'S ADVOCACY EFFORTS FOCUS ON POLICIES AND PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT THE LONG-TERM PROTECTION OF NATURAL, HISTORICAL, AND CULTURE RESOURCES OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN'S DRIFTLESS AREA. IN 2025, THE CONSERVANCY ENDED ITS FIGHT TO OPPOSE A MASSIVE AND UNNEEDED TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT. THE TRANSMISSION LINE IS INSTALLED AND OPERATING, BUT WE WON MANY OF THE LEGAL CHALLENGES WE BROUGHT ALONG THE WAY AND SHED A LIGHT ON PROCESSES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING THAT WERE LARGELY NOT TRANSPARENT TO THE PUBLIC BEFORE. IN 2025, WE CONTINUED TO ADVOCATE FOR THE KNOWLES NELSON STEWARDSHIP FUND WHICH SUPPORTS LAND CONSERVATION THROUGHOUT WISCONSIN.

  Expenses $11,982

• OUTREACH AND EDUCATION - THE CONSERVANCY'S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS AIM TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO THE LAND AND TO ONE ANOTHER. THE CONSERVANCY AIMS TO EDUCATE AND INSPIRE CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS TO PROTECT AND STEWARD OUR UNIQUE DRIFTLESS LANDSCAPE. WE CONTINUED TO BUILD OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, AND 185 VOLUNTEERS HAVE DEDICATED THEIR TIME AND TALENT TO THE DRIFTLESS AREA. IN 2025, THE CONSERVANCY ENGAGED OVER 1400 PEOPLE IN DALC'S MISSION AND WORK THROUGH IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS, FIELD TRIPS, VOLUNTEER WORKDAYS, GATHERINGS, AND EVENTS.

  Expenses $83,372

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $5,075,153

  Expenses

  $1,245,954

  Contributions

  $4,707,734

  Grants paid

  $54,099

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,650,047

  Expenses

  $1,336,289

  Contributions

  $3,427,672

  Grants paid

  $3,180

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,018,247

  Expenses

  $1,076,014

  Contributions

  $856,832

  Grants paid

  $52,226

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,219,818

  Expenses

  $729,117

  Contributions

  $1,083,064

  Grants paid

  $6,646

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,517,550

  Expenses

  $603,678

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,736,653

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,729,231

  Expenses

  $501,422

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,420,106

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $629,082

  Expenses

  $628,816

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,176,729

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $685,302

  Expenses

  $544,437

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,188,369

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $562,993

  Expenses

  $521,676

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,063,254

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $569,878

  Expenses

  $467,400

  Assets (EOY)

  $991,229

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $288,637

  Expenses

  $225,596

  Assets (EOY)

  $823,325

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $275,050

  Expenses

  $228,084

  Assets (EOY)

  $772,814

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $395,958

  Expenses

  $188,568

  Assets (EOY)

  $728,007

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $747,390

  Assets (EOY)

  $732,056

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• PHEASANTS FOREVER INC

  $50,999

  2025 · EMPLOYEE PAYROLL ASSISTANCE, TRUCK, TRAILER, AND OTHER LAND MANAGEMENT SUPPLIES.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $60,500

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $48,600

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATURE CONSERVANCY

  $40,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $35,000

  2023 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $33,500

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $22,800

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $20,000

  2022 · STRATEGIC LAND PROTECTION PLANNING AND OUTREACH IN DANE COUNTY

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $15,400

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $15,000

  2024 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $13,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL

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

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