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JO DAVIESS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC

EIN 36-3913497 ELIZABETH, IL

Revenue 2025
$5,350,543
Expenses 2025
$2,199,771

Program services were 60.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1000
Street
126 N MAIN ST

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 · 2025

Mission

JDCF WORKS TO PRESERVE AND STEWARD LAND AND WATER FOR THE LASTING WELL-BEING OF ALL PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PRESERVE AND STEWARD LAND FOR THE LASTING WELL-BEING OF ALL PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE.

  • STEWARDSHIP AND PUBLIC ACCESS: IN ANY GIVEN YEAR THESE SERVICES MAKE UP THE LARGEST ANNUAL PROGRAM EXPENSE FOR JDCF. LABOR AND EQUIPMENT COMPRISE THE BULK OF THESE PROGRAM SERVICES FOR THE CARE, MAINTENANCE AND ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF PROPERTY HELD IN PUBLIC TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE IN NW ILLINOIS. IN 2025, JDCF'S DRIFTLESS STEWARDSHIP INITIATIVE (DSI) PROGRAM WAS WOUND DOWN. OF THE MORE THAN 2,000 ACRES THAT JDCF OWNS, APPROXIMATELY 1,500 ACRES WITH OVER 60 MILES OF TRAILS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR PASSIVE RECREATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES, INCLUDING TWO PARTNER PRESERVES. IN 2025, WE ESTIMATE OVER 25,000 PEOPLE VISITED OUR PRESERVES. OUR DEDICATED TEAM OF RESTORATION SPECIALISTS ACQUIRED A NEW SURE TRAC TRAILER AND ATV THROUGH AN ILDNR GRANT. REVENUE FOR STEWARDSHIP TOTALED APPROXIMATELY $432,000; DONOR CONTRIBUTIONS TOTALED $68,756.

    Expenses $802,498 · Revenue $87,169

  • EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: IN 2025, JDCF CONTINUED MAKING DEEP CONNECTIONS WITH INDIGENOUS TRIBES (WHO FORMERLY CALLED JO DAVIESS COUNTY HOME), SPECIFICALLY THE HO-CHUNK (AND WINNEBAGO) NATIONS AND THE SAC AND FOX NATION OF OKLAHOMA. IN COLLABORATION WITH THESE GROUPS, JDCF IS AT THE BEGINNING OF A LONG-TERM LEARNING JOURNEY WITH AN END GOAL OF PROVIDING EDUCATION AND OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES FOR LISTENING, LEARNING, AND CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE LAND IT PRESERVES AND STEWARDS. OUR EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ADDED ONE NEW STAFF MEMBER IN 2025 AND LAUNCHED THE MIGHTY ACORNS PROGRAM BRINGING CONSERVATION EDUCATION THAT MEETS STATE EDUCATION STANDARDS INTO LOCAL SCHOOL CLASSROOMS. DELIVERING JDCF'S EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SERVICES DEPENDS ON PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, SUPPORT FROM A ROBUST VOLUNTEER CORPS OF OVER 50 VOLUNTEERS, AND SUPPORT FROM LOCAL BUSINESSES AND GRANTS FROM PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATIONS. GRANTS, INDIVIDUAL AND LOCAL BUSINESS PARTNER CONTRIBUTIONS TOTALED APPROXIMATELY $90,000.

    Expenses $283,868 · Revenue $5,945

  • LAND PRESERVATION: JDCF PRESERVES LAND IN TWO DISTINCT WAYS, CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND ACQUISITIONS. DONOR CONTRIBUTIONS TOTALED APPROXIMATELY $5,000.

    Expenses $233,799 · Grants $21,060 · Revenue $193,759

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • STEVE BARG

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $113,796
    From this org
    $107,581
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,215
    Hours/week
    40

  • EMILY PAINTER

    PRESIDENT THRU 04/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • ALAN WENZEL

    VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • SUSAN MCDONALD

    SECRETARY THRU 04/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CARTER NEWTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MARILYN SPIROFF

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • FRAN PETERSON

    VICE PRESIDENT AS OF 04/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURIE MATTAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RANDY DOWNING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAN DICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS LARSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DOUG DUFFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERTA ASHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEN BEACH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NAN HOFF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNA DIEDRICH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LOIS GORDON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,350,543
    Expenses
    $2,199,771
    Contributions
    $4,977,333
    Grants paid
    $21,060
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,926,055
    Expenses
    $2,638,367
    Contributions
    $1,745,343
    Grants paid
    $11,950
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,339,207
    Expenses
    $2,619,172
    Contributions
    $6,077,896
    Grants paid
    $7,040
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,991,742
    Expenses
    $1,939,129
    Contributions
    $4,366,213
    Grants paid
    $5,510

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,728,367
    Expenses
    $1,511,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,683,840

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,877,292
    Expenses
    $1,720,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,094,275

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,205,409
    Expenses
    $2,082,867
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,165,861

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,894,613
    Expenses
    $1,176,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,622,207

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,294,595
    Expenses
    $2,211,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,541,683

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,325,387
    Expenses
    $2,602,651
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,344,275

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $465,543
    Expenses
    $788,890
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,597,209

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

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Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2022 return

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.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 return

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.