FLORIDA CONSERVATION GROUP INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C30

Classification

1000

Street

925 GARLAND AVE

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 WE WORK TO PROTECT THE MOST IMPORTANT AREAS FOR WATER AND WILDLIFE, WITH A FOCUS ON THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA OF FLORIDA. OVER THE PAST YEAR WE SUBMITTED APPLICATIONS REPRESENTING OVER 20,000 ACRES OF LAND WITH THE STATE'S FLORIDA FOREVER PROGRAM. THIS ENTAILED: SUBMITTING DETAILED APPLICATIONS, CONDUCTING ECOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS AND ADVOCATING FOR THE PROPERTIES IN FRONT OF DECISION MAKING BODIES, FLORIDA FOREVER IS OUR STATE LAND PROTECTION PROGRAM AND IS A NATIONAL MODEL FOR SCIENCE-BASED LAND PROTECTION; THE FOCUS IS ON PROTECTING OUR MOST IMPORTANT NATURAL RESOURCES. THE PROPERTIES WE SUBMITTED ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR STATE FUNDING TO ENSURE THEIR PERMANENT PROTECTION AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR PROTECTION. WE WORK WITH MANY STATE, FEDERAL AND REGIONAL AGENCIES AS WELL AS LANDOWNERS TO PROTECT THESE LANDS. WE ALSO SUCCESSFULLY ENSURED THE PERMANENT PROTECTION OF 8 PROPERTIES TOTALING OVER 15,000 ACRES.

  Expenses $368,563 · Revenue $258,240

• ADVOCACY AND OUTREACH: WE CONTINUED WORKING WITH LANDOWNERS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT CONSERVATION PLANS FOR THEIR PROPERTIES. WE ARE ACTIVE THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL FLORIDA. THERE ARE MYRIAD OF DIFFERENT STATE AND FEDERAL CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AVAILABLE; THE CHALLENGE IS TO BRING TOGETHER THE BEST FIT FOR EACH LANDOWNER AND PROPERTY, AS WELL AS TO SECURE THE APPROPRIATE FUNDING FOR EACH PROPERTY. OVER THE PAST YEAR, WE MET WITH 60 DIFFERENT LANDOWNERS, TO PROVIDE OUTREACH AND THE VARIOUS CONSERVATION PROGRAMS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO PROTECT AND MANAGE PRIVATE LAND FOR CONSERVATION. WE CONDUCTED ONE-ON ONE OUTREACH WITH LANDOWNERS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON CONSERVATION PROGRAMS. WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH VARIOUS LANDOWNERS TO APPLY FOR FUNDING AND ADVOCATE THE PROTECTION OF THEIR LANDS. WE ALSO HOSTED SEVERAL SMALLER GROUP MEETINGS WITH LANDOWNERS TO DISCUSS CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO THEM. THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR LANDOWNER MEETINGS WERE CENTERED AROUND TALKING ABOUT THE STATE'S RURAL AND FAMILY LANDS PROTECTION PROGRAM - THE STATE'S AGRICULTURAL EASEMENT PROGRAM. THE NEW APPLICATION CYCLE OPENED IN DECEMBER OF 2024. WE ALSO WORKED WITH THE UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM TO REACH OUT TO LANDOWNERS ON THE NEW EVERGLADES TO GULF CONSERVATION AREA. THE NEW CONSERVATION AREA WAS ESTABLISHED IN MARCH OF 2024; IT ENCOMPASSES 4 MILLION ACRES AND IS AN OPPORTUNITY AREA, WHERE LANDOWNERS CAN SELL THEIR LANDS TO USFWS FOR CONSERVATION. WE HELPED LEAD THE EDUCATION EFFORTS FOR THIS NEW AREA.

  Expenses $36,082 · Revenue $13,703

• SCIENCE: THE EVERGLADES TO GULF CONSERVATION AREA WE PARTNERED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S CENTER FOR LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION PLANNING AND THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE (USFWS) TO PROVIDE THE SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR THE USFWS' EFFORT TO ESTABLISH AN EVERGLADES TO GULF CONSERVATION AREA. WITH OUR HELP, CONSERVATION AREA WAS FORMALLY ESTABLISHED IN MARCH OF 2024. WITHIN THIS PROPOSED 4-MILLION-ACRE CONSERVATION AREA IN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL FLORIDA, THE USFWS WOULD WORK WITH WILLING LANDOWNERS TO PURSUE CONSERVATION EASEMENTS OR FEE TITLE ACQUISITIONS. LAND PROTECTION IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA IS CRITICAL BECAUSE THIS AREA IS HOME TO OVER 70 FEDERALLY OR STATE-LISTED THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES INCLUDING THE FLORIDA PANTHER, FLORIDA SCRUB JAY, AND CRESTED CARACARA. HOWEVER, THIS ECOLOGICALLY DIVERSE AREA FACES THREATS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, RAPID POPULATION GROWTH, AND LAND USE INTENSIFICATION. PROTECTED LANDS, INCLUDING THOSE WITHIN THE FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR, WOULD IMPROVE SPECIES' RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF THESE THREATS. LAND PROTECTION ALSO SUPPORTS FAMILY FARMS AND RANCHES AND IMPROVES WATER QUALITY."

  Expenses $91,500 · Revenue $254,750

• LANDOWNER ASSISTANCE FLORIDA CONSERVATION GROUP (FCG) AND OUR PARTNER COMMON GROUND ECOLOGY (CGE) ASSISTED FLORIDA NRCS AT THE STATE, AREA, AND FIELD OFFICE LEVELS BY PROVIDING PROGRAMMATIC CONSULTATION TO STATE CONSERVATIONISTS, GUIDANCE TO DISTRICT CONSERVATIONISTS AND FIELD OFFICE STAFF ON GRAZING PLANNING ORGANIZATION AND PROCESS, AND PRESCRIBED GRAZING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE DIRECTLY TO LOCAL RANCHERS ENROLLED IN NRSC COST-SHARE PROGRAMS. THIS ASSISTANCE INCLUDED THE EVALUATION OF LAND FOR IMPROVED GRAZING MANAGEMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINAL PRESCRIBED GRAZING PLANS. GRAZING PLANS WERE PROVIDED TO PRODUCERS TO IMPLEMENT, IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF SURFACE WATER BY PROMOTING NATIVE AND DESIRED SPECIES COMPOSITION AND DECREASING SOIL COMPACTION AND NUTRIENT RUN-OFF.

  Expenses $216,060 · Revenue $515,783

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.

• DAVID DURANDO

  CHAIRMAN

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• JULIE K MORRIS

  EXECUTIVE DI

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  20

• JAMES STRICKLAND

  VC

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• MARK MIZELL

  SECRETARY

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• DONALD QUINCEY

  TREASURER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

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

  $1,072,776

  Expenses

  $1,140,443

  Contributions

  $546,083

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,227,941

  Expenses

  $1,194,228

  Contributions

  $532,268

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $428,633

  Expenses

  $495,911

  Contributions

  $198,498

  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-EZ

  Revenue

  $152,795

  Expenses

  $92,061

  Assets (EOY)

  $89,624

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $158,315

  Expenses

  $146,869

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,891

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $71,500

  Expenses

  $85,229

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,445

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $102,548

  Expenses

  $75,707

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,174

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 2017

Tax period

1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017

Principal officer

Julie Morris

Mailing address

609 Poinciana RoadNokomis FL 34275

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

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $572,883

  2023 · IMPLEMENTING GOPHER TORTOISE HABITAT MANAGEMENT

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $525,719

  2024 · IMPLEMENTING GOPHER TORTOISE HABITAT MANAGEMENT

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $401,249

  2022 · WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS

• DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE

  $30,000

  2022 · To support landscape-scale conservation in southwest Florida.

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