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KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC

EIN 61-1276913 BEREA, KY

Revenue 2024
$8,089,123
Expenses 2024
$2,600,904

Program services were 73.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C360
Classification
1000
Street
433 CHESTNUT 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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST WORKS TO PROTECT, CONNECT AND RESTORE WILDLANDS WITH A COMMITMENT TO SAFEGUARDING BIODIVERSITY, MITIGATING CLIMATE IMPACTS AND FOSTERING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

NATIONALLY ACCREDITED LAND TRUST WORKING TO PROTECT, CONNECT, AND RESTORE WILDLANDS IN KENTUCKY.

  • KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST (KNLT) IS WORKING TO PROTECT WILDLANDS IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA AND BEYOND. OUR PRIMARY FOCUS IS ALONG PINE AND CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS. OUR EFFORTS BEGAN WITH RAISING FUNDS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF KENTUCKY NATURE PRESERVES TO SAFEGUARD KENTUCKY'S LARGEST REMAINING TRACT OF OLD GROWTH FOREST NOW KNOWN AS BLANTON FOREST STATE NATURE PRESERVES. SINCE 1995, KNLT HAS PROTECTED MORE THAN 60,000 ACRES OF WILDLANDS. THROUGH 2024, KNLT HAS DIRECTLY PROTECTED OVER 19,000 ACRES AND PARTNERED ON THE PROTECTION OF AN ADDITIONAL 40,500 ACRES. KNLT CONTINUES TO STEWARD TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WILDLANDS ACRES BOTH KNLT PRESERVES AND IMPORTANT CONSERVATION AREAS HELD BY PARTNERS.

    Expenses $1,918,423 · Revenue $108,327

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.

  • Kelly Bartley

    CHAIR AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Julia Taylor

    VICE CHAIR AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bert Lyons

    SECRETARY, TREASURER AND D

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rebecca Allan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Bethany Baxter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ivy Brashear

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Greg Davis MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Premalatha Durham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Marc Evans

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Susan Hamilton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Laura Keller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Melanie Ratliff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kathleen Shelton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Zoe Strecker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Zeb Weese

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Greg Abernathy

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $134,767
    From this org
    $116,640
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,127
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,089,123
    Expenses
    $2,600,904
    Contributions
    $7,599,019
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,746,158
    Expenses
    $2,525,850
    Contributions
    $3,277,895
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,843,480
    Expenses
    $1,865,507
    Contributions
    $1,704,656
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,601,751
    Expenses
    $1,859,445
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,894,739
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,685,467
    Expenses
    $1,027,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,358,063
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,900,028
    Expenses
    $1,474,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,951,424
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,003,546
    Expenses
    $1,414,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,520,992
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,743,471
    Expenses
    $1,616,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,310,110

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.