LA PLATA OPEN SPACE CONSERVANCY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 1651

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

• Land protection and stewardship: Since incorporating in 1992, LPOSC has accepted donations of conservation easements permanently protecting in excess of 20,709 acres of land with superior conservation values across six counties in southwestern Colorado. In October 2024, LPOSC implemented LANDSCAPE, a secure, cloud-based land conservation software platform designed by former land trust professionals. The system centralizes project management, annual monitoring, exercised rights, issue tracking, funding management, and accreditation reporting thereby enhancing organizational efficiency, long-term accountability, and transparency. This platform strengthens LPOSCs ability to maintain compliance with accrediation requirements and land trust best practice standards. As a certified conservation easement holder, LPOSC is legally obligated to monitor land use and ecological conditions on each property on which it holds a conservation easement to ensure that the conserved land and natural resources are being used in compliance with the terms of the conservation easement. Monitoring helps LPOSC to establish and/or maintain valuable relationships with owners of conserved land, and further helps to foster LPOSCs image in the community as a trusted land steward. This is in addition to work the organization does with numerous private landowners to secure protection of other valuable open spaces, wildlife habitat, recreational areas, and agricultural land in the region.

  Expenses $254,530 · Revenue $123,169

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.

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

  $444,154

  Expenses

  $328,786

  Contributions

  $202,510

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $458,132

  Expenses

  $302,167

  Contributions

  $289,920

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $365,917

  Expenses

  $293,160

  Contributions

  $178,062

  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

  $287,431

  Expenses

  $173,317

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,561,775

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $141,528

  Expenses

  $201,418

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,239,339

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $224,118

  Expenses

  $235,763

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,300,894

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $176,110

  Expenses

  $217,635

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,326,115

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $241,254

  Expenses

  $211,610

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,360,566

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $200,514

  Expenses

  $190,735

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,252,443

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $221,027

  Expenses

  $169,137

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,186,112

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $263,925

  Expenses

  $157,772

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,211,651

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $163,271

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,135,418

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $174,647

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,234,290

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

• COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS

  $62,500

  2025 · CONSERVATION PROJECT

• COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS

  $50,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION PROJECT

• COLORADO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS

  $40,300

  2024 · CONSERVATION PROJECT

• LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCORPORATED

  $32,500

  2023 · CAPACITY BUILDING

• LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCORPORATED

  $15,000

  2022 · CAPACITY-BUILDING

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $13,317

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $12,825

  2024 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $11,712

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $10,200

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2022 · PROGRAM ACTIVITY FUNDING

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

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