ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INCORPORATED

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

7204 SE COUNTY ROAD 234

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• CONSERVATION BURIAL INC

  EIN 27-0268610

• NORTH FLORIDA PRESCRIBED BURN ASSOCIATION INC

  EIN 82-5373864

Mission and programs · 2024

• LAND PROTECTION: IN 2024, ACT CONTINUED ITS ROBUST LAND PROTECTION EFFORTS. IN JANUARY 2024, ACT CLOSED ON A FIRST OF ITS KIND PROJECT WITH WATSON FARM, WHERE THE LANDOWNER AGREED TO PLACE A CONSERVATION EASEMENT ON THE PROPERTY AS WELL AS REDUCE AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS TO THE LAND THROUGH A DE-INTENSIFICATION SCHEDULE OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS. ACT ALSO TRANSFERRED 289 ACRES ADJACENT TO MANATEE SPRINGS TO THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF STATE LANDS EXPANDING THE STATE PARK BOUNDARY AND PROTECTING LAND ABOVE THE MANATEE SPRINGS CAVE SYSTEM. ACT'S ONGOING PARTNERSHIP WITH ALACHUA COUNTY FOREVER THROUGH THE WILD SPACES & PUBLIC PLACES (WSPP) PROGRAM LED TO THE PROTECTION OF 614 ACRES THROUGH A CONSERVATION EASEMENT IN JANUARY AS WELL AS AN ADDITIONAL 478 ACRES IN LAND PROTECTION FROM JANUARY THROUGH MARCH. IN JUNE, ACT ACCEPTED THE DONATION OF 420 ACRES IN MADISON COUNTY, WHICH ACT WILL CONTINUE TO MANAGE LONG-TERM THROUGH PRESCRIBED FIRE AND OTHER TECHNIQUES. ACT ALSO CLOSED ON A 261-ACRE TRACT IN JULY ALONG THE NORTHERN PORTION OF ORANGE LAKE IN ALACHUA COUNTY FURTHER EXPANDING EFFORTS TO PROTECT LAND IN THE ORANGE LAKE CORRIDOR, WHICH INCLUDES OTHER ACT-HELD NATURE PRESERVES. THIS NEW ADDITION WILL SUPPORT WATER-BASED RECREATION ALONG THE LAKE. THROUGHOUT 2024, ACT FACILITATED SEVERAL CONSERVATION PROJECTS FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA THROUGH ITS FLORIDA FOREVER PROGRAM, INCLUDING 290 ACRES IN LEVY COUNTY IN THE WATERMELON POND CONSERVATION AREA, A 200-ACRE CONSERVATION EASEMENT IN UNION COUNTY, A 1,500-ACRE CONSERVATION EASEMENT IN COLUMBIA COUNTY, AND A 538-ACRE CONSERVATION EASEMENT IN GILCHRIST COUNTY. IN AUGUST, ACT RECEIVED A DONATED CONSERVATION EASEMENT ON 55 ACRES NEARBY TO ITS EXISTING FOX PEN PRESERVE. THROUGH ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH ALACHUA COUNTY FOREVER, ACT STAFF ASSISTED WITH A 120-ACRE ACQUISITION IN AN AREA OF HIGH CONSERVATION PRIORITY KNOWN AS LOCHLOOSA SLOUGH AS WELL AS A 40-ACRE CONSERVATION EASEMENT IN THE WATERMELON POND CONSERVATION AREA IN SEPTEMBER. AT THE END OF 2024, ACT RECEIVED SEVERAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT DONATIONS INCLUDING 26-ACRES WITHIN THE OCALA NATIONAL FOREST IN MARION COUNTY, 22 ACRES IN ALACHUA COUNTY, AND 94-ACRES IN LEVY COUNTY WHICH WILL PROVIDE FOR THE PERPETUAL PROTECTION OF PINEY PRAIRIE. ACT ALSO CONTINUED TO WORK WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS TO PROTECT THEIR LAND THROUGH NUMEROUS STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING THE USDA-NRCS REGIONAL CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, USDA-NRCS ACEP-ALE PROGRAM, AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES RURAL AND FAMILY LANDS PROTECTION PROGRAM (RFLPP).

  Expenses $2,683,976 · Grants $2,000,000

• PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: ACT ACTIVELY MANAGES EIGHTEEN MAJOR PRESERVES ALONG WITH SEVERAL SMALLER CONSERVATION PROPERTIES ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA. ACT'S LAND MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE FOREST, GROUNDCOVER, AND WETLANDS RESTORATION, CREATING AND MAINTAINING PUBLIC TRAILS AND INFORMATIONAL KIOSKS, THE APPLICATION OF PRESCRIBED FIRE, AND EXOTIC PLANT SPECIES CONTROL. ACT BENEFITS FROM THE USE OF VOLUNTEERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, SANTA FE COLLEGE, ALACHUA AUDUBON, EMORY UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE TO HELP COMPLETE THESE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES ALONGSIDE STAFF. ACT'S WOMEN IN THE WOODS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, WHICH IS SPECIFICALLY TAILORED FOR YOUNG WOMEN (BUT ALSO INCLUDES YOUNG MEN) IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE THEIR HIRING PROSPECTS IN THIS TRADITIONALLY MALE-ORIENTED CONSERVATION CAREER PATH, SERVED 23 YOUNG WOMEN AND YOUNG MEN OVER THE SPRING, SUMMER, AND FALL SEMESTERS IN 2024. IN TOTAL, THE PROGRAM HAS SERVED MORE THAN 138 YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN SINCE IT BEGAN IN 2017. IN TOTAL, 330 INTERNS AND VOLUNTEERS CONTRIBUTED 10,360 HOURS OF SERVICE TO THE ORGANIZATION IN 2024. THE ANNUAL TREE FEST EVENT ORGANIZED BY SWAMP HEAD BREWERY & SOLAR IMPACT, INC. RAISED ADDITIONAL FUNDS IN 2024 TO PLANT 127,536 TREES AT ACT'S LITTLE ORANGE CREEK PRESERVE. ACT UTILIZED PRESCRIBED FIRES TO BURN HUNDREDS OF ACRES IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS LONG-TERM HABITAT RESTORATION GOALS, AND INSTALLED ADDITIONAL ADA ACCESSIBLE TRAILS & BOARDWALKS AT SEVERAL ACT PRESERVES AS WELL AS OTHER AMENITIES TO ENHANCE RECREATIONAL ENJOYMENT FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC FROM ALL ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA.

  Expenses $1,359,331 · Revenue $205,476

• EDUCATION AND OUTREACH: ACT WAS ABLE TO HOST NUMEROUS EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH WORKSHOPS AT ITS PRESERVES. THOSE EVENTS FOCUSED ON VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT, PRESERVE CLEAN-UPS, FAMILY-FUN ENVIRONMENTAL DAYS, AND CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION AND GOALS. FOR MANY OF THESE, ACT PARTNERED WITH STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES, INDIVIDUALS, AND OTHER LOCAL NONPROFITS. ACT ALSO LAUNCHED ITS PRESERVE ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM IN LATE 2024 DEBUTING A NEW ECOROVER, DESIGNED TO PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH MOBILITY LIMITATIONS A FUN AND SAFE WAY TO EXPERIENCE NATURE WITH THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. ACT'S CREEK PROGRAM, WHICH PROVIDES NO-COST EXPERIENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TO STUDENTS FROM UNDER-SERVED SCHOOLS IN ALACHUA AND PUTNAM COUNTIES, SERVED 1,730 STUDENTS IN 2024 RESULTING IN 6,920 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING ACROSS 19 SCHOOLS AND CAMP PARTNERS. THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, ACT CONTINUED ITS TRADITIONAL OUTREACH VIA ITS PRINT NEWSLETTER, THE GAZETTEER, AND MAINTAINED A COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE, WHICH WAS UPDATED SIGNIFICANTLY IN 2024. ACT ALSO RELIED HEAVILY ON ITS SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS AND REGULAR MONTHLY EMAILS, FIELD NOTES, TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT TO THE PUBLIC AND PROMOTE ACTS MISSION AND WORK. THESE CHANNELS REACHED OVER 21,000 SUBSCRIBERS IN 2024 ON SUCH TOPICS AS ECOLOGY, WILDLIFE, CLIMATE RESILIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES, STAFF NOTES FROM THE FIELD, NATURAL HISTORY, AND OPPORTUNTIITES AND TOOLS FOR LANDOWNERS TO CONSERVE THEIR LAND. ACT HOSTED THE ANNUAL CONSERVATION STEWARDS AWARDS EVENT, WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY MORE THAN 550 PEOPLE AT ACT'S PRAIRIE CREEK LODGE.

  Expenses $508,039

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.

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

  $9,376,838

  Expenses

  $4,817,030

  Contributions

  $9,104,050

  Grants paid

  $2,000,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,372,593

  Expenses

  $2,645,346

  Contributions

  $3,092,891

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,044,817

  Expenses

  $2,012,663

  Contributions

  $5,580,526

  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

  $5,963,285

  Expenses

  $2,042,069

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,016,687

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,368,662

  Expenses

  $2,021,792

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,442,340

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,061,555

  Expenses

  $1,384,582

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,589,270

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,469,718

  Expenses

  $957,709

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,266,465

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,511,778

  Expenses

  $863,737

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,252,266

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,221,386

  Expenses

  $698,093

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,979,001

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,032,944

  Expenses

  $654,112

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,793,394

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,660,368

  Expenses

  $500,324

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,751,460

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,216,154

  Expenses

  $491,318

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,590,894

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

• ALACHUA COUNTY

  $2,000,000

  2024 · WETLANDS

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Grants received

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $717,448

  2024 · IMPROVING HABITAT FOR GOPHER TORTOISE IN FLORIDA

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA INC

  $680,097

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $621,750

  2023 · RESTORING AND MAINTAINING LONGLEAF PINE IN OCALA

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $565,216

  2022 · CONSERVATION PROJECTS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $152,750

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $84,960

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $66,270

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC

  $51,000

  2024 · MULTIPLE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $46,410

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA INC

  $28,654

  2022 · Partner Agency Participation

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