THE RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS

EIN 05-0427057 JOHNSTON, RI

Revenue 2024: $2,290,899
Expenses 2024: $2,330,926

Program services were 98.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: C27
Classification: 1000
Street: 2283 HARTFORD AVE

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

To attract public and charitable monies that can be used by the three State of Rhode Island conservation districts for their work in stewardship of the state's natural resorces through education, outreach, technical assistance and to assist and support the districts in their endeavors.

East Providence Emergency Watershed Protection - to provide funds that allow the voluntary purchasing of flood-impacted homes at their pre-flood value in a flood prone area of East Providence, RI. Homes are demolished and a conservation easement is placed on the land to prevent further building in a flood-prone area and restore the natural floodplain.

Expenses $1,392,349
IRA

Expenses $207,479
AT535 - Providing technical assistance to farm and forest land owners.

Expenses $184,268
NACD Technical Assistance Agreement to provide outreach to farm and forest land owners.

Expenses $165,773 · Grants $165,648
USDA 2501: Rhode Island's three conservation districts and their sub-grantee partners from Southside Community Land Trust and the RI Food Policy Council work to increase participation in USDA programming among historically underserved agricultural producers such as black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) producers, veterans, and those with limited English proficiency.

Expenses $103,328
PL 566 - floodplain reclamation in the Pocasset River watershed in Providence County.

Expenses $101,028
Outreach - to provide education and outreash to land owners about federal conservation programs.

Expenses $90,283
Middletown Emergency Watershed Proection program that allows the voluntary purchasing of flood-impacted homes at their pre-flood value in a flood prone area of Middletown, RI. Homes are demolished and a conservation easement is placed on the land to prevent further building in a flood-prone area and restore the natural floodplain.

Expenses $40,816
Dam Atlas

Expenses $8,798
Narragansett EWP

Expenses $1,707

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

Cassius Spears Sr

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Phil Moreschi

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Richard Went

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Nancy Parker-Wilson

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.25
Deana Thomas

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.25
Matt Tracy

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Marc Tremblay

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.25

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

$2,290,899

Expenses

$2,330,926

Contributions

$2,290,899

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$5,833,535

Expenses

$5,807,914

Contributions

$5,833,535

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$657,384

Expenses

$725,110

Contributions

$1,470

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$2,290,899	$2,330,926	$2,290,899	$0
2023	$5,833,535	$5,807,914	$5,833,535	$0
2022	$657,384	$725,110	$1,470	$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

$1,351,277

Expenses

$1,304,869

Assets (EOY)

$247,295
2020 · 990

Revenue

$506,667

Expenses

$458,802

Assets (EOY)

$131,086
2019 · 990

Revenue

$718,032

Expenses

$714,351

Assets (EOY)

$83,221
2018 · 990

Revenue

$282,803

Expenses

$268,200

Assets (EOY)

$79,540
2017 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$32,657

Expenses

$53,300

Assets (EOY)

$67,122
2016 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$69,422

Expenses

$44,628

Assets (EOY)

$96,347
2015 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$65,631

Expenses

$106,913

Assets (EOY)

$67,940
2014 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$138,745

Expenses

$199,909

Assets (EOY)

$95,135
2013 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$122,735

Expenses

$144,010

Assets (EOY)

$156,299
2012 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$166,730

Expenses

$188,525

Assets (EOY)

$177,574

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,351,277	$1,304,869	$247,295
2020	990	$506,667	$458,802	$131,086
2019	990	$718,032	$714,351	$83,221
2018	990	$282,803	$268,200	$79,540
2017	990-EZ	$32,657	$53,300	$67,122
2016	990-EZ	$69,422	$44,628	$96,347
2015	990-EZ	$65,631	$106,913	$67,940
2014	990-EZ	$138,745	$199,909	$95,135
2013	990-EZ	$122,735	$144,010	$156,299
2012	990-EZ	$166,730	$188,525	$177,574

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period: 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer: Richard Went
Mailing address: 17 Smith AvenueGreenville RI 02828

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC

$174,280

2023 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC

$131,303

2024 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC

$0

2022 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

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