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DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC

EIN 39-1561423 STURGEON BAY, WI

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Revenue 2024
$5,713,741
Expenses 2024
$3,009,382

Program services were 80.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 65

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 · 2024

Mission

THE DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST IS A LOCAL, NON-GOVERNMENTAL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO PRESERVE DOOR COUNTY'S EXCEPTIONAL LANDS AND WATERS FOREVER.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROTECTING DOOR COUNTY'S EXCEPTIONAL LANDS AND WATERS FOREVER

  • OUTREACH - DCLT'S ROBUST VOLUNTEER PROGRAM ENGAGES MORE THAN 200 VOLUNTEERS THAT ENABLE FREE TRAILS, GUIDED HIKES, AND OTHER PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION AND LEARNING. DCLT COORDINATED CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAMS, NEST BOX MONITORING, BUMBLE BEE BRIGADE, AND POLLINATOR OBSERVATION RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY TRAINED VOLUNTEERS; THE PRESERVE STEWARD PROGRAM, BOUNDARY MARKING, AND STEWARDSHIP WORKDAYS ENGAGED MORE THAN 90 VOLUNTEERS. DCLT PROVIDED FREE GUIDED WALKS AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TO MORE THAN 400 PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS. 75,000 EDUCATIONAL NEWSLETTERS AND TRAIL MAPS WERE DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE SERVICE AREA. VIDEO, WEBSITE, AND SOCIAL MEDIA OFFERED RESOURCES FOR THE PUBLIC TO LEARN AND ENGAGE.

    Expenses $364,298 · Revenue $516

  • ACQUISITION - DCLT COMPLETED 8 CONSERVATION PURCHASES, 3 LAND DONATIONS, AND 6 CONSERVATION EASEMENT AGREEMENTS, PROTECTING A TOTAL OF OVER 426 ACRES OF LAND IN 2024. THE CONSERVATION EASEMENTS PROTECT A POPULATION OF FEDERALLY THREATENED DWARF LAKE IRIS AND OVER 1500 FEET OF STREAMBANK. THE PURCHASED PROPERTY CONTAINS A VARIETY OF RICH, BIODIVERSE HABITAT, INCLUDING RIDGE & SWALE COMPLEXES, BOREAL FOREST, AND OVER 1 MILE OF STREAMBANK. THE THREE DONATIONS PROTECT COASTAL WETLANDS IN STURGEON BAY AND WASHINGTON ISLAND.

    Expenses $1,450,920

  • STEWARDSHIP WITH THE AID OF VOLUNTEERS, DCLT MAINTAINED MORE THAN 30 MILES OF NATURE PRESERVE TRAILS, INCLUDING A NEW TRAIL AT BEAR CREEK NATURE PRESERVE. STAFF COMPLETED ANNUAL MONITORING OF EACH OF THE 43 NATURE PRESERVES AND NATURAL AREAS AND EACH OF THE 84 CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROPERTIES. TREATMENT OF INVASIVE SPECIES WAS COMPLETED ACROSS 242 ACRES OF WETLANDS, SHORELINE, FIELDS, SAND DUNES, AND FORESTED HABITATS. NEW POPULATIONS OF STATE-LISTED THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES WERE DOCUMENTED. DOZENS OF BLUEBIRDS, TREE SWALLOWS, AND KESTRELS FLEDGED FROM NEST BOXES MONITORED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF VOLUNTEERS.

    Expenses $598,656 · Revenue $340

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Emily Wood

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,200
    From this org
    $132,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,900
    Hours/week
    40
  • Roy Thilly

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Deb Hagman-Shannon

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Bob Ling

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Mark Holey

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Donna Hake

    BOARD MEMBER (PAST PRESIDENT FEB. 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Peter Deschler

    BOARD MEMBER (PAST SECRETARY FEB. 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeff Ottum

    BOARD MEMBER (PAST TREASURER FEB. 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bryan Nelson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Barbara Frank

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mark Martin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anna Pepelnjak

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Meredith Coulson-Kanter

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rick Scott

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,713,741
    Expenses
    $3,009,382
    Contributions
    $5,362,154
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,736,181
    Expenses
    $1,944,459
    Contributions
    $5,730,804
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,702,460
    Expenses
    $1,417,098
    Contributions
    $2,819,077
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $4,027,675
    Expenses
    $1,100,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,318,691
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,183,025
    Expenses
    $1,111,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,802,595
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,586,217
    Expenses
    $1,616,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,456,503
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,730,373
    Expenses
    $995,056
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,056,683
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,025,761
    Expenses
    $1,001,537
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,690,337
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,019,619
    Expenses
    $1,012,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,377,666
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,208,461
    Expenses
    $982,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,292,747
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,841,121
    Expenses
    $861,140
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,167,039
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $919,965
    Expenses
    $763,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,171,700
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,041,543
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,011,907

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.