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RIO GRANDE HEADWATERS LAND TR A COLORADO NONPROFIT CORPORATION

EIN 84-1495770 DEL NORTE, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2025
$1,727,947
Expenses 2025
$1,642,669

Program services were 82.2% 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
PO BOX 444

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 OUR LAND, WATER, AND WAY OF LIFE IN COLORADOS SAN LUIS VALLEY.

  • LAND AND WATER PROTECTION: WORKED TO PROTECT PRIVATE LAND THROUGHOUT COLORADOS RIO GRANDE BASIN, THE SAN LUIS VALLEY, WITH A FOCUS ON THE CORRIDORS OF THE RIO GRANDE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, AS WELL AS WETLAND ACRES AND HABITAT PROTECTION. CONTINUED TO INCLUDE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND EXPANDED OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH PROGRAMS. ENCUMBERED FOUR PROPERTIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WATER RIGHTS WITH CONSERVATION EASEMENTS IN 2025 TOTALING 3,765 ACRES AND WORKED ON DUE DILIGENCE, FUNDRAISING AND OTHER PROCESSES FOR SEVERAL UPCOMING CONSERVATION EASEMENT ACQUISITIONS.

    Expenses $1,297,852 · Revenue $130,002

  • STEWARDSHIP: MONITORED EACH OF RIGHTS 63 CONSERVATION EASEMENTS COVERING 36909 ACRES OF OPEN SPACE FOR AGRICULTURE, WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND RECREATION. PROVIDED CONSERVATION EASEMENT SERVICES, RESTORATION CONSULTS, AND CONDUCTED ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS AS NECESSARY.

    Expenses $51,982

  • COMMUNITY CONSERVATION: WORKED WITH NONPROFIT AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO ENGAGE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN CONSERVATION EDUCATION PROGRAMS, AND CREATED A FUNDRAISING, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PLAN FOR 2025. CONNECTED CONSERVATION EASEMENT HOLDERS TO PARTNERS FOR HABITAT AND INFRASTRUCTURE RESTORATION WORK.

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Laura Cusick

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $104,699
    From this org
    $92,399
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,300
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kyler Brown

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alfred Flores

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doug Clark

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lyle Hood

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Michael Dax

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jon Harley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,727,947
    Expenses
    $1,642,669
    Contributions
    $1,478,962
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,315,974
    Expenses
    $2,127,675
    Contributions
    $2,146,344
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,708,809
    Expenses
    $2,536,524
    Contributions
    $2,544,753
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,856,809
    Expenses
    $1,855,001
    Contributions
    $1,628,030
    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
    $1,769,707
    Expenses
    $1,521,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,933,137

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,274,807
    Expenses
    $3,171,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,627,147

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,485,643
    Expenses
    $2,210,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,452,341

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.

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