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LAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC

EIN 52-1465309 COCKEYSVILLE, MD

Largest nonprofits in Maryland

Revenue 2024
$5,508,404
Expenses 2024
$5,225,945

Program services were 96.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1200
Street
13501 FALLS RD

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 LAND PRESERVATION TRUST, INC. ASSISTS BALTIMORE COUNTY LANDOWNERS IN PROTECTING THEIR LAND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS BY FACILITATING VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION AND AGRICULTURAL EASEMENTS. THE TRUST DEMONSTRATES ITS COMMITMENT TO THE STEWARDSHIP OF THE LAND AT SHAWAN DOWNS A FIRST-CLASS EQUESTRIAN CENTER AND STEEPLECHASE COURSE OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE TRUST.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE LAND PRESERVATION TRUST, INC. ASSISTS BALTIMORE COUNTY LANDOWNERS IN PROTECTING THEIR LAND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS BY FACILITATING VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION AND AGRICULTURAL EASEMENTS.

  • LAND PRESERVATION TRUST, INC. THE TRUST WAS FORMED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING HUMAN NEEDS, THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, AND BALANCED USE OF SCENIC, NATURAL, RECREATIONAL, PRODUCTIVE, AND OPEN SPACE LANDS, INCLUDING THE ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF FEE SIMPLE TITLE, EASEMENTS, AND OTHER REAL PROPERTY INTERESTS. THE TRUST ACQUIRES PROPERTY EASEMENTS EITHER THROUGH DONATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MARYLAND ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST OR PURCHASES THROUGH THE MARYLAND RURAL LEGACY PROGRAM. THE TRUST ALSO OWNS AND OPERATES AN EQUESTRIAN CENTER AND STEEPLECHASE COURSE KNOWN AS SHAWAN DOWNS. SHAWAN DOWNS WAS ESTABLISHED ON 300 ACRES OF FARMLAND IN COCKEYSVILLE, MARYLAND TO PRESERVE THE LANDSCAPE'S AGRICULTURAL LEGACY WHILE BUILDING A NEW TRADITION OF EQUESTRIAN EVENTS TO BENEFIT LOCAL CHARITIES.

    Expenses $4,962,012 · Revenue $355,888

  • Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP): The MPRP is a 67-mile high-voltage transmission line that will cut a new path through Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Counties and destroy 1,200+ acres. Our mission is to protect and preserve the easements affected by this proposal by actively opposing the installation of high-voltage power lines.

    Expenses $76,916

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.

  • Victoria Collins

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Edward A Halle Jr Esq

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Charles E Vieth

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Michael Sonnenfeld

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jack S Griswold

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gail Riepe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Wharton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.5

  • Alice Chalmers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles C Fenwick Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Roberts

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carrie Montague

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Hardie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $5,508,404
    Expenses
    $5,225,945
    Contributions
    $4,991,252
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,096,675
    Expenses
    $2,004,149
    Contributions
    $1,633,416
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,838,573
    Expenses
    $3,722,066
    Contributions
    $3,709,841
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,822,614
    Expenses
    $2,830,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,484,964

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,222,883
    Expenses
    $2,133,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,407,829

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,193,644
    Expenses
    $2,234,754
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,201,556

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.

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • The Legacy Chase at Shawan Downs LLC

    Event Management · MD · income $389,350 · assets $8,977

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