- Revenue 2024
- $92,476
- Expenses 2024
- $27,677
Program services were 62.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C340
- Classification
- 2100
- Street
- PO BOX 162
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 preserve, protect and restore native hardwood forests and scenic natural areas, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, and water quality on the Western Highland Rim of Tennessee. Each of its 3 programs are based on this mission statement.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Swan Trust has been a volunteer nonprofit with a totally independent, unpaid board that has preserved, protected, and restored native hardwood forests, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, and water quality on the TN Western Highland Rim for the past 30 years. In 2022, Swan Trust purchased 141 acres, increasing our preserved land to 1,500 acres. Volunteers work to eliminate invasive species and monitor conservation easements. Volunteers provide public education to protect the environment through hikes, newsletters, bioblitz, and childrens programs on climate change, plant, animal and insect biodiversity.
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Swan Trusts Preservation Program includes land acquisitions, accepting gifts of land, and the preparation, filing, and monitoring of conservation easements. Swan Trust holds three conservation easements, which are monitored annually by volunteers. Volunteers perform all the work on grant proposals, easements, stewardship, and monitoring of the 1,500-acre Big Swan Headwaters Preserve and the 100-acre Highland Woods Preserve. The 25-acre Langford Branch State Natural Area is cooperatively managed with the State of Tennessee. In 2024, Swan Trust began work on the Nashville Highland Rim Forest project (NHRF). The NHRF project promotes conservation easements to link a 50,000-acre forest corridor between existing parks in Nashville, Tennessee to protect water and air quality in Nashville and promote wildlife conservation. This included promoting conservation easements with landowners, and preparing/funding conservation easements.
Expenses $12,862
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Swan Trusts Protection Program includes educational outreach to promote protection of Tennessees Western Highland Rim through plant, bird, arthropod, and amphibian identification hikes, annual newsletters, and childrens environmental programs. It also includes scientific research by colleges and universities. In 2024, Tennessee State University graduate students began surveying creeks on Big Swan Headwaters Preserve for the State-endangered Hellbender Salamander. Swan Trust provided 8 events between April and September with experts in botany, biology, ecology, ornithology, and biodiversity for public education. A calendar of these events was printed and mailed to 600 residents of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama and posted on the website. Two additional events were held to pick up litter in order to keep it out of streams and the Langford Branch State Natural Area. In 2024, Swan Trusts volunteer biologist met with students in a local school on fifteen occasions to perform fall seed collections and spring seed planting, to explore a wetland, to sample creek macroinvertebrates, and to begin birdwatching skills. Swan Trust volunteers provided tubs of macroinvertebrates from Big Swan Creek at the Hohenwald October Heritage Festival to teach children about biodiversity and water quality.
Expenses $3,367
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Swan Trusts Restoration Program includes elimination of invasive plant species and stewardship of all its properties. In 2024, volunteers worked on the Star Branch land purchased in 2022 to eliminate invasive plant species on August 8 and September 19, 2024. All labor and equipment were provided free of charge.
Expenses $1,165
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.
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JAMES MOORE
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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CAROL NELSON
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MICHAEL A LEE
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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CYNTHIA ROHRBACH
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 35
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ROSE CROCKETT
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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ALANA ELLEN COOK
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
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THERESA BROWN
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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KENNETH BRECKENRIDGE
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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NATHAN LAFFERTY
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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CINDY THOMAS
Trustee
- 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $92,476
- Expenses
- $27,677
- Contributions
- $70,607
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $58,956
- Expenses
- $15,492
- Contributions
- $40,998
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $249,224
- Expenses
- $14,658
- Contributions
- $242,505
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $63,013
- Expenses
- $12,066
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,313,091
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $34,650
- Expenses
- $15,091
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,262,144
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $32,688
- Expenses
- $21,082
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,242,585
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $32,688
- Expenses
- $21,082
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,242,585
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $26,921
- Expenses
- $23,579
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,230,979
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $32,909
- Expenses
- $31,996
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,227,637
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $33,197
- Expenses
- $30,603
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,226,724
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $139,720
- Expenses
- $29,646
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,224,130
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $93,122
- Expenses
- $37,963
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,231,222
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2010
- Tax period
- 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010
- Principal officer
- Cynthia Rohrbach
- Mailing address
- Post Office Box 162Summertown TN 38483
- Website
- www.swantrust.org
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
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2025 Public education outreach
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$10,000
2023 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
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2024 Public Education outreach
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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.