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NEW RIVER LAND TRUST

EIN 54-2053383 BLACKSBURG, VA

Revenue 2025
$451,254
Expenses 2025
$364,814

Program services were 71.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C34
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX K

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

TO CONSERVE THE RURAL, NATURAL, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE NEW RIVER REGION, PROTECTING FARMS, FORESTS, OPEN SPACES, AND HISTORIC PLACES.

  • EACH YEAR THE NEW RIVER LAND TRUST, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE VIRGINIA OUTDOORS FOUNDATION, OTHER STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND OTHER CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION, WORKS WITH LANDOWNERS FROM ELLISTON IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WEST TO COX'S CHAPEL IN GRAYSON COUNTY TO SAVE LARGE TRACTS OF LAND AND FAMILY FARMS IN THE NEW RIVER REGION. A CONSERVATION EASEMENT IS A VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT BY A LANDOWNER THAT PROTECTS HIS OR HER LAND FROM INTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT IN PERPETUITY. CONSERVATION EASEMENTS PROTECT WORKING FOREST LANDS AND VITAL REGIONAL WATER RESOURCES FOR HUMAN, WILDLIFE, AND AQUATIC SPECIES. THE LANDOWNER CONTINUES TO OWN THE FARMLAND OR FOREST AND CAN PURSUE ALL TRADITIONAL USES OF THE LAND, SUCH AS AGRICULTURAL AND TIMBERING. IN EXCHANGE FOR PROTECTING THE LAND'S CONSERVATION VALUES, THE OWNER RECEIVES GENEROUS STATE AND FEDERAL TAX INCENTIVES. IN 2020, THE NEW RIVER LAND TRUST HELPED THREE LANDOWNERS WITH 716 ACRES UNDER CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND 229 ACRES IN FEE SIMPLE CONSERVATION PROJECTS. THE EASEMENTS INCLUDED A STATE FUNDED PROJECT ON EXTREMELY HIGH VALUE FOREST WITH NOTABLE WATER, NATURAL HERITAGE, AND SCENIC RESOURCES IN GILES COUNTY. THE LAND TRUST DID TWO FEE SIMPLE PURCHASE PROJECTS IN ORDER TO PROTECT HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE LAND IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE MONTGOMERY PROJECT WAS FUNDED WITH GRANT MONEY FROM THE VIRGINIA OUTDOORS FOUNDATION'S FOREST CORE FUND. THE LAND WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE TOWN OF BLACKSBURG TO BECOME A FORESTED NATURE PARK IN 2021. THE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTIES WILL BE PERMANENTLY PROTECTED THROUGH THEIR TRANSFER TO THE PUBLIC ENTITIES. ALSO IN 2019, THE NEW RIVER LAND TRUST CONTINUED TO PARTNER WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN STRATEGIC PLANNING TO IDENTIFY CRITICAL LANDS AND RESOURCES FOR TARGETED CONSERVATION OUTREACH AND EDUCATION. THESE EFFORTS INCLUDED DEVELOPMENT OF AN UPGRADED GIS SYSTEM THAT CAN BE USED BY STAFF AND BOARD MEMBERS TO QUICKLY IDENTIFY PROPERTIES WITH IMPORTANT CONSERVATION VALUES IN OUR SERVICE AREA. THIS PROJECT CONTINUES THE LAND TRUST'S EFFORTS TO STRATEGICALLY PURSUE ITS MISSION. THE NEW RIVER LAND TRUST'S WORK HELPS BALANCE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WITH CONSERVATION OF REGIONALLY AND LOCALLY IMPORTANT RURAL LANDS AND ASSOCIATED RESOURCES. SINCE 2002, THE NEW RIVER LAND TRUST HAS WORKED WITH 274 LANDOWNERS TO VOLUNTARILY PLACE MORE THAN 57,973 ACRES OF FARMS, FORESTS, OPEN SPACES, AND HISTORIC PLACES IN CONSERVATION EASEMENTS. THIS PROTECTED AREA INCLUDES OVER 27 MILES ALONG THE NEW RIVER, ONE OF THE FOURTEEN AMERICAN HERITAGE RIVERS IN THE COUNTRY AND THE ONLY ONE IN VIRGINIA. THE NEW RIVER AND ITS SURROUNDING APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE ARE DEFINING FEATURES OF THE AREA.

    Expenses $224,425

  • PUBLIC OUTREACH: THE NEW RIVER LAND TRUST PROVIDES OUTREACH, EDUCATION, FACILITATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES TO LANDOWNERS WITH AN INTEREST IN CONSERVING RURAL LAND AND ITS ASSOCIATED NATURAL AND/OR CULTURAL RESOURCES. WE HAVE A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE NEW RIVER REGION, ALTHOUGH OVER THE YEARS WE HAVE WORKED WITH PEOPLE OUT OF STATE AND IN MANY VIRGINIA COUNTIES.

    Expenses $35,129

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.

  • JOHN R EUSTIS

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $85,239
    From this org
    $85,239
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHRIS BARBOUR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT DAVIE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE JONES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JASON KARAS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CHUCK LACY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINE MERRITT

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ASHLEY MOTHENA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FERNE MOSCHELLA

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MOLLY NEVITT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JIM NEWLIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELLEN OLIVER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JOE POWERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RON RORDAM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE SNYDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAY WURZBURGER

    BOARD MEMBER

    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
    $451,254
    Expenses
    $364,814
    Contributions
    $351,714
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $504,007
    Expenses
    $470,946
    Contributions
    $472,221
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $792,617
    Expenses
    $344,946
    Contributions
    $749,867
    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
    $648,530
    Expenses
    $963,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,928,308

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $755,221
    Expenses
    $287,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,883,016

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $931,328
    Expenses
    $506,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,266,140

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $961,868
    Expenses
    $231,575
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,948,724

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,907
    Expenses
    $211,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,053,908

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $943,076
    Expenses
    $254,480
    Assets (EOY)
    $932,901

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $183,870
    Expenses
    $172,781
    Assets (EOY)
    $252,315

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $221,298
    Expenses
    $176,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $244,685

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,024
    Expenses
    $160,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,069

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $140,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,680

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.