THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 261

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• BALDWIN HILL CONSERVATION BURIAL GROUNDS

  EIN 84-4936563

Mission and programs · 2024

• STEWARDSHIP KLT'S STEWARDSHIP STAFF OVERSEE THE MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST'S FEE LANDS, MONITOR CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, AND WORK WITH 59 COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS. DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS COMMIT MORE THAN 1418 HOURS ANNUALLY TO SUPPORT KLT'S STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM. THE MOUNT PISGAH CONSERVATION AREA, KLT'S MOST POPULAR PROPERTY WAS A STEWARDSHIP FOCUS FOR THIS YEAR. KLT STAFF, INTERNS, AND MAINE CONSERVATION CORPS CREW MOVED 50+ YARDS OF GRAVEL FOR TRAIL REPAIRS WITH TRACKED HAULERS. THE GRAVEL, ALONG WITH GEOTEXTILE FABRIC AND CRUSHED DRAIN STONE, WAS PLACED ALONG A SECTION OF THE MOUNT PISGAH TOWER TRAIL TO REPLACE ~600 FEET OF WORN BOG BRIDGING. IN ADDITION TO ADDING GRAVEL ALONG THE TOWER TRAIL, A MCC CREW BEGAN INSTALLING STEPPING-STONES ALONG THE LOWER PORTION OF THE BLUEBERRY TRAIL TO REPLACE ANOTHER SECTION OF OLD BOG-BRIDGING. THIS PROJECT WILL BE CONTINUED IN 2025. A MAINE RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM GRANT FUNDED THESE PROJECTS, WITH MATCHING FUNDS PROVIDED BY KLT'S MEMBERSHIP. ON MANY OTHER PROPERTIES, KLT VOLUNTEERS CONTINUED TO STOCK SIGN-IN BOXES WITH BROCHURES, CLEAR TRAILS OF BLOWDOWNS, HELP WITH CONTROL OF INVASIVE SPECIES, REPLACE WORN SIGNAGE, CLEAR BUSH, CUT NEW TRAIL ALONGSIDE KLT STAFF, AND PROVIDE BOAT TRANSPORT TO LAKE ISLANDS. THE SEASONAL STEWARDSHIP ASSISTANT'S TIME WAS INCREASED AND A PRIORITY TASK WAS ANNUAL PROPERTY MONITORING, WAKEFIELD WILDLIFE CABIN PROJECTS AND RELOCATING AN OVERFLOWING LATRINE ON NORRIS ISLAND.

  Expenses $266,345 · Revenue $11,522

• EDUCATION PUBLIC PROGRAMS KLT HOSTED PUBLIC PROGRAMS WITH MANY PARTICIPANTS, INCLUDING OUR ANNUAL LYCEUM LECTURE SERIES ON MAINE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES, HIGH SCHOOL AND PUBLIC SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY EDUCATION PROGRAMS, NATURE WALKS, A MAINE ENTOMOLOGICAL FIELD DAY, STAR GAZING EVENTS, FULL MOON HIKES, PROPERTY DEDICATIONS, AND MORE. PUBLICATIONS "KLT NEWS: BIANNUAL NEWSLETTERS FEATURING NEW CONSERVATION PROPERTIES AND AN ANNUAL CALENDAR OF EVENTS "2024 INTERN RESEARCH PROJECTS: CONSERVATION LAND TRUST AND COMMUNITY LAND TRUST PARTNERSHIPS: WORKFORCE HOUSING WITH COMMUNITY, CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS HTTPS://STATIC1.SQUARESPACE.COM/STATIC/52F117DAE4B0C08037396A20/T/66C3BE59B 018667711287FEF/1724104284844/WORKFORCE+HOUSING+RESEARCH+FINAL.PDF ALTERNATIVE LAWN COVERS & THEIR BENEFITS HTTPS://STATIC1.SQUARESPACE.COM/STATIC/52F117DAE4B0C08037396A20/T/66C3C0A3B F15C17E74F7F7C5/1724104872433/2024ELENA+8.13++FINAL.PDF "2023 INTERN RESEARCH PROJECTS: HOWARD HILL UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE TRAIL INITIATIVE HTTPS://WWW.TKLT.ORG/S/KLT-RESEARCH-PAPER-2023-FINAL.PDF "TAKE A HIKE: THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST HIKING GUIDE, SECOND EDITION, PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER 2020, WITH THIRTY-TWO HIKES. "SAVE HOWARD HILL: SCENIC BACKDROP TO MAINE'S STATE HOUSE, PUBLISHED IN 2014. TEXT, MAPS, AND HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS FOCUSED ON AUGUSTA'S HOWARD HILL. "YOUR WOODLAND: A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR KENNEBEC COUNTY LANDOWNERS, PUBLISHED IN FEBRUARY, 2012. "BETWEEN PERSON AND PLACE: CONSERVATION HISTORIES FROM THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST, PUBLISHED IN 2010. ESSAYS AND PHOTOGRAPHS HIGHLIGHTING THE STORIES BEHIND KLT'S CONSERVATION LANDS "WRITING THE LAND: MAINE AND WRITING THE LAND: ARE ANTHOLOGIES OF LAND TRUSTS, INCLUDING KLT, AND THE WORK OF BOTH ADULT AND YOUTH POETS WHO WROTE POEMS INSPIRED BY THEIR ADOPTED LANDS THROUGHOUT MAINE.

  Expenses $119,148 · Revenue $2,545

• 1. LAND CONSERVATION SINCE 1988, KLT HAS WORKED COOPERATIVELY WITH LANDOWNERS AND COMMUNITIES TO CONSERVE OUR REGION'S NATURAL RESOURCES. KLT HOLDS CONSERVATION EASEMENTS ON, ACCEPTS GIFTS OF, AND PURCHASES SIGNIFICANT LANDS TO FURTHER THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION. KLT'S COMMUNITY CONSERVATION LANDS PROTECT WILDLIFE HABITAT, WATER QUALITY, WORKING FORESTLAND AND FARMLAND, AND SCENIC BEAUTY, AND PROVIDE MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR YEAR-ROUND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR MAINE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS. KLT HAS ACCOMPLISHED MANY NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: STRATEGIC CONSERVATION PLANNING IN 2022 WE COMPLETED AN UPDATE OF THE TRUST'S STRATEGIC CONSERVATION PLAN. OUR PLAN INCORPORATES 13 ECOLOGICAL AND COMMUNITY VALUES, INCLUDING PROXIMITY TO TRAIL ACCESS AND RESILIENCY IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, TWO ADDITIONS TO THE PREVIOUS STRATEGIC CONSERVATION PLAN. THE PLAN HELPS US IDENTIFY HIGH PRIORITY CONSERVATION AREAS FOR OUR 413,000-ACRE SERVICE AREA. NEW LAND PROJECTS IN 2024 - 2025 KLT PROTECTED 261 ADDITIONAL ACRES OF CONSERVATION LAND IN KENNEBEC COUNTY. THE 39-ACRE JIMMY STREAM CONSERVATION EASEMENT IN LITCHFIELD, CONSERVED IN JULY 2024, PROTECTS HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD FORESTS AS WELL AS WETLANDS AND RIPARIAN AREAS WITH VALUABLE WILDLIFE HABITATS. THE PROPERTY FEATURES A HISTORIC NINETEENTH CENTURY CARRIAGE ROAD AND STONE WALLS, RECREATIONAL TRAILS MAINTAINED BY THE WHITE FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AND GLIMPSES OF OAK HILL TO THE WEST. THE 7-ACRE FERGUSON PARCEL, FAYETTE IS ADJACENT TO KLT'S 72-ACRE HALES POND PRESERVE. THE PARCEL WAS PURCHASED WITH FUNDS FROM KLT DONORS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE TRUST'S PARTNERSHIP WORK TO SUPPORT WORKFORCE HOUSING, FOREST BASED LOCAL WOOD ECONOMIES, PUBLIC ACCESS TO CONSERVATION LAND, AND FORESTLAND CONSERVATION. THE PROPERTY HAS AN EXISTING WELL AND SEPTIC SYSTEM AND EXTENSIVE FRONTAGE ON RICHMOND MILLS ROAD. KLT IS CURRENTLY PAYING FULL TAXES ON THE PROPERTY WHILE EXPLORING WHETHER A SMALL NUMBER OF WORKFORCE HOUSING UNITS COULD BE CONSTRUCTED ON THE PROPERTY IF THE LAND WAS TRANSFERRED TO A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST. THE 97-ACRE HOPKINS SINCLAIR CONSERVATION AREA IN MANCHESTER WAS DONATED TO KLT IN FEBRUARY, 2025. THIS ECOLOGICALLY DIVERSE PROPERTY PROTECTS VALUABLE WOODLAND AND WETLAND HABITATS IN A LARGELY UNDEVELOPED LANDSCAPE. THESE FORESTS AND WETLANDS AND OTHER NEARBY CONSERVATION AND PRIVATELY OWNED LANDS ARE CRITICAL HABITAT FOR MANY OF MAINE'S WILDLIFE SPECIES, INCLUDING BLACK BEAR AND MOOSE - WILDLIFE SPECIES WITH EXTENSIVE HOME RANGES. THIS CONSERVATION LAND IS CONTIGUOUS WITH THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE'S 1,140-ACRE JAMIE'S POND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, KLT'S 68- ACRE WAGNER WOODS CONSERVATION AREA, AND THE 228-ACRE TOWN OF MANCHESTER CONSERVATION LANDS. TAKEN TOGETHER, THESE 1,533 ACRES COMPRISE A SIGNIFICANT CONSERVATION LANDSCAPE. THE 8- ACRE PATTERSON ADDITION TO THE BALDWIN HILL CONSERVATION AREA PROTECTS A PRODUCTIVE AND ECOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT HAYFIELD IN A LARGELY UNDEVELOPED AND RURAL LANDSCAPE. THE BALDWIN HILL CONSERVATION AREA, NOW EIGHTY- EIGHT ACRES, IS CLOSE TO THE BALDWIN HILL CEMETERY, STURTEVANT FARM SCENIC AREA, MEADOW BROOK FARM CONSERVATION AREA, BAMFORD POND CONSERVATION AREA, AND HALES POND WOODLAND PRESERVE. TAKEN TOGETHER, THESE 585 ACRES SUPPORT AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST-BASED ECONOMIES AND PROTECT WILDLIFE HABITAT, SCENIC, RECREATIONAL, AND WATER QUALITY VALUES. THE 54-ACRE EATON MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION AREA IN VIENNA FEATURES THE SCENIC UNDEVELOPED RIDGE OF EATON MOUNTAIN AND AN ECOLOGICALLY VALUABLE PERENNIAL STREAM THAT FLOWS INTO FLYING POND. THE PROPERTY IS CLOSE TO KLT'S PETER MILLER WOODLAND AND THE 6,800 + ACRE KENNEBEC HIGHLANDS, THE LARGEST CONSERVATION PROPERTY IN CENTRAL MAINE. EATON MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION AREA ADDS ADDITIONAL CONSERVATION VALUE TO THE HIGHLANDS, AND DUE TO ITS VARIED AND DIVERSE TERRAIN, PROTECTS A LANDSCAPE THAT COULD PROVIDE CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCY. THE 56-ACRE PARKER POND CONSERVATION AREA CONSERVATION AREA IN MOUNT VERNON IS LOCATED ON THE EAST SHORE OF PARKER POND. THIS SCENIC AND ECOLOGICALLY VALUABLE PROPERTY PROTECTS WATER QUALITY, 1,470 FEET OF UNDEVELOPED SHORE LAND AND AN ASSOCIATED CORRIDOR OF MATURE CONIFER-HARDWOOD FOREST, AND AN UPLAND HARDWOOD FOREST. WHEN COMBINED WITH OTHER NEARBY CONSERVATION AND PRIVATELY OWNED LANDS, THIS PROPERTY PROVIDES IMPORTANT HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE SPECIES THAT DEPEND ON BOTH UNDEVELOPED LAKE AND WOODLAND HABITATS. KLT PLANS TO DEVELOP A SHORT TRAIL AND A HAND-CARRY BOAT ACCESS POINT OVER THE COMING YEARS TO ENHANCE PUBLIC ACCESS. BALDWIN HILL CONSERVATION CEMETERY AFTER FIVE YEARS OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH, KLT'S 10-ACRE BALDWIN HILL CONSERVATION CEMETERY WAS INCORPORATED AS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION IN THE STATE OF MAINE IN FEBRUARY 2020. THE CORPORATION, MANAGED BY A SEVEN-MEMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS, IS A 501(C) (13). BALDWIN HILL DIRECTORS AND KLT STAFF LEAD FREQUENT TOURS OF THE CEMETERY AND ARE PROVIDING GUIDANCE TO LAND TRUSTS AND OTHER NON-PROFITS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN INITIATING A CONSERVATION BURIAL GROUND PLANNING PROCESS IN MAINE OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. THE CEMETERY IS SITUATED IN A STAND OF TALL WHITE PINES, WITH AN OPEN UNDERSTORY, AND SURROUNDED BY ROCK WALLS. A 0.25-MILE UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE TRAIL WEAVES THROUGH THE PINE STAND AND OFFERS A CHANCE FOR REFLECTION AND A LOVELY VIEW. THE FALL FOLIAGE IS STUNNING IN LATE SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER. VISITORS WHO LINGER AT THE BENCHES OVERLOOKING ROLLING HILLS WILL LIKELY OBSERVE MANY SPECIES OF BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES IN AN AREA THAT WILL BE MANAGED FOR POLLINATOR AND EARLY SUCCESSIONAL HABITAT. THE CEMETERY PROVIDES ECOLOGICALLY SOUND BURIALS FOR PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS. ON THE OPERATIONS END, THE KLT OFFICE MANAGES THE BURIAL GROUND AND COORDINATES PLOT SALES. WE ARE PARTNERING WITH FUNERAL HOMES THAT HAVE ESTABLISHED EXPERTISE WITH GRIEF SUPPORT, MEMORIAL SERVICES, TRANSPORTATION OF THE DECEASED, AND BURIALS. THE BURIAL GROUND HAS RECEIVED CERTIFICATION AS A CONSERVATION CEMETERY ACCORDING TO THE STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES DEFINED BY THE GREEN BURIAL COUNCIL AND THE CONSERVATION BURIAL GROUND ALLIANCE. THE CEMETERY BEGAN OPERATIONS AND THE SALE OF INTERMENT RIGHTS IN JUNE 2021. SINCE THE OPENING, 212 PEOPLE HAVE PURCHASED INTERMENT RIGHTS. NINE BURIALS TOOK PLACE IN 2024 - 2025. THE MOST RECENT STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS HAVE BEEN MARKING EXISTING GRAVES SITES WITH GRANITE CORNER STONES AND MAINTAINING THE POLLINATOR FIELD HABITAT. BALDWIN HILL DIRECTORS AND KLT STAFF HAVE ALSO PRESENTED A NUMBER OF PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS ABOUT CONSERVATION BURIAL AND THE BALDWIN HILL CEMETERY.

  Expenses $37,422

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

  $1,693,510

  Expenses

  $563,537

  Contributions

  $1,594,766

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $849,598

  Expenses

  $535,671

  Contributions

  $799,089

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $989,014

  Expenses

  $449,993

  Contributions

  $936,048

  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

  $1,042,594

  Expenses

  $477,749

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,051,480

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $574,661

  Expenses

  $442,163

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,749,269

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $958,040

  Expenses

  $399,020

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,407,416

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $737,258

  Expenses

  $386,060

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,867,894

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,221,016

  Expenses

  $370,755

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,463,240

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,489,928

  Expenses

  $1,345,548

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,617,048

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $694,396

  Expenses

  $310,129

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,970,602

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $350,293

  Expenses

  $358,176

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,668,486

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $225,342

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,541,942

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $621,600

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,290,862

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

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $31,850

  2022 · Land Resources Conservation

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $24,900

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $20,750

  2024 · Land Resources Conservation

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $20,750

  2023 · Land Resources Conservation

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $17,250

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $16,052

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• SOUTHERN MAINE CONSERVATION COLLABORATIVE

  $15,000

  2023 · To strengthen land trusts throughout Maine with resources necessary to grow and succeed

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $14,800

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• SOUTHERN MAINE CONSERVATION COLLABORATIVE

  $10,000

  2025 · To strengthen land trusts throughout Maine with resources necessary to grow and succeed

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $9,950

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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