GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY

EIN 38-2994229 TRAVERSE CITY, MI

Revenue 2024: $34,487,626
Expenses 2024: $14,803,030

Program services were 88.9% 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: 2846 3 MILE RD N

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

THE MISSION OF GTRLC IS TO PROTECT SIGNIFICANT NATURAL, SCENIC AND FARM LANDS AND ADVANCE LAND STEWARDSHIP NOW AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF GTRLC IS TO PROTECT SIGNIFICANT NATURAL, AGRICULTURAL, AND SCENIC AREAS AND ADVANCE LAND STEWARDSHIP NOW AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

FOR THE TAX YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025, 359 ACRES OF LAND VALUED AT $1,478,200 WERE ACQUIRED BY PURCHASE OR DONATION FOR PERMANENT PROTECTION AND PUBLIC USE. INCLUDED IN ACQUISITIONS DURING THE TAX YEAR ARE THE BIRCH POINT, ARCADIA MARSH ADDITION, GOLDEN DAYS LOON, AND WILCOX-PALMER-SHA ADDITION. THE ACQUISITIONS BRING THE TOTAL LAND PRESERVES PROTECTED TO 10,980 ACRES, VALUED AT HISTORICAL COST OF $36,138,870. ALSO, CONSERVATION EASEMENT DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS EXTINGUISHED IN THE TAX YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025 TOTALED $2,038,000 AS DESCRIBED IN SCHEDULE D, PART XIII. A TOTAL OF 261 CONSERVATION EASEMENTS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED BY THE CONSERVANCY DURING IT'S 30-YEAR HISTORY COMPRISING 22,849 ACRES, VALUED AT A HISTORICAL COST OF $70,126,610.

Expenses $13,157,789

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.

GLEN CHOWN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$295,662

From this org

$240,190

From related orgs

$0

Other

$55,472

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$240,190

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$34,978

Nontaxable benefits

$20,494

Filer's total

$295,662
JOHN BERCINI

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
LINDA CLINE

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

8
KATHLEEN GUY

BOARD CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

24
GREG SEMAN

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
KOFFI KPACHAVI

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
ALENA BOWMAN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CLIFF FOX

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
DON COE

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

10
CATHIE BALLARD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CAITLIN FALENSKI

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2.5
BECKY EWING

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
PAUL MOYER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

6
CHIP MAY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
BARBARA NELSON-JAMESON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

6
SUSAN PALMER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
MACK BEERS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
ANNIE OLDS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
RAY KENDRA

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
JIM HUCKLE

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
BIRGIT CONWAY

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

Total calculated

$130,734

From this org

$103,953

From related orgs

$0

Other

$26,781

Hours/week

40
JENNIFER JULIN

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Total calculated

$119,995

From this org

$103,889

From related orgs

$0

Other

$16,106

Hours/week

40
MARISSA DUQUE

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Total calculated

$131,307

From this org

$108,514

From related orgs

$0

Other

$22,793

Hours/week

40
CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN

DIRECTOR OF LAND PROTECTIO

Total calculated

$119,897

From this org

$112,919

From related orgs

$0

Other

$6,978

Hours/week

40
ERIN WHITING

SENIOR CHARITABLE GIVING SPECIALIST

Total calculated

$128,297

From this org

$105,680

From related orgs

$0

Other

$22,617

Hours/week

40

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$34,487,626

Expenses

$14,803,030

Contributions

$33,531,192

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$14,463,028

Expenses

$8,168,083

Contributions

$13,059,903

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$11,375,377

Expenses

$9,156,711

Contributions

$10,387,793

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$34,487,626	$14,803,030	$33,531,192	$0
2023	$14,463,028	$8,168,083	$13,059,903	$0
2022	$11,375,377	$9,156,711	$10,387,793	$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

2024 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
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

$14,843,118

Expenses

$6,219,992

Assets (EOY)

$83,640,436
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$17,084,801

Expenses

$6,907,319

Assets (EOY)

$77,004,851
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$10,455,450

Expenses

$4,683,728

Assets (EOY)

$63,639,657
2018 · 990

Revenue

$14,367,554

Expenses

$8,306,741

Assets (EOY)

$59,312,309
2017 · 990

Revenue

$17,869,439

Expenses

$7,200,574

Assets (EOY)

$55,464,137

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$14,843,118	$6,219,992	$83,640,436
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$17,084,801	$6,907,319	$77,004,851
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$10,455,450	$4,683,728	$63,639,657
2018	990	$14,367,554	$8,306,741	$59,312,309
2017	990	$17,869,439	$7,200,574	$55,464,137

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

THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

$9,002,500

2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$1,000,000

2024 THIS AWARD IS DESIGNATED SUPPORT FOR THE ELBERTA WATERFRONT COMMUNITY CONSERVATION
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$900,300

2023 CULTURE
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

$701,500

2022 General Operating Support, support for the completion of 5 projects: the Crystal Lake outlet, 80 acres of forest on the south shore of Crystal Lake, property adjacent to Sleeping Bear Dunes, trail system around Lower Woodcock Lake Preserve, and Benzie County land stewardship - per conversation with Glen Chown, Executive Director
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$500,600

2022 CULTURE
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$500,100

2024 ENVIRONMENT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$432,094

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
NATURE CONSERVANCY

$425,000

2023 CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$409,961

2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$265,390

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

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.