SONOMA LAND TRUST

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

822 5TH 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

• LAND ACQUISITIONS: WE WORK WITH LANDOWNERS TO ASSESS AND UNDERSTAND GOALS FOR THEIR PROPERTIES, WHICH CAN LEAD TO AN ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY OR CONSERVATION EASEMENT, OR A TRANSFER OF PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC. TRANSACTIONS ARE NEGOTIATED TO PROVIDE THE BEST OUTCOME FOR THE LANDOWNER WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF PERMANENTLY PRESERVING LAND WHETHER THE FINAL OWNERSHIP IS PRIVATE OR PUBLIC. LAND STEWARDSHIP: WE WORK WITH THE LAND AND COMMUNITY TO RESTORE AND PROTECT NATIVE HABITATS, CREEKS, WILDLIFE CORRIDORS, PRODUCTIVE FARMS AND RANCHES, AND OTHER PERMANENTLY PROTECTED PRIVATE LANDS UNDER OUR CARE. THE PROGRAM CURRENTLY STEWARDS 23 CONSERVATION PROPERTIES TOTALING MORE THAN 6,900 ACRES AND ACTIVELY (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O) MONITORS 47 CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROPERTIES TOTALING MORE THAN 8,100 ACRES. COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: WE OFFER A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH AIMED AT ENGAGING AUDIENCES AS DIVERSE AS THE LANDS AND COMMUNITIES WE REPRESENT. OFFERINGS INCLUDE ON-THE-LAND, VIRTUAL AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES IN ADDITION TO EDUCATION PROGRAMS, INCLUDING SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS AND TEEN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $5,200,128 · Grants $3,838,490 · Revenue $44,727

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.

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

  $1,800,680

  Expenses

  $6,317,266

  Contributions

  $1,612,400

  Grants paid

  $3,838,490

• 2024

  Revenue

  $26,871,392

  Expenses

  $12,255,361

  Contributions

  $24,282,568

  Grants paid

  $1,924,696

• 2023

  Revenue

  $25,805,431

  Expenses

  $20,832,898

  Contributions

  $24,207,930

  Grants paid

  $445,315

• 2022

  Revenue

  $16,453,814

  Expenses

  $7,396,432

  Contributions

  $15,580,858

  Grants paid

  $503,164

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

  $13,750,403

  Expenses

  $11,544,715

  Assets (EOY)

  $48,073,426

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,770,900

  Expenses

  $7,978,988

  Assets (EOY)

  $45,650,127

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,657,724

  Expenses

  $7,252,003

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,789,121

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,523,202

  Expenses

  $6,970,072

  Assets (EOY)

  $39,137,373

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,197,022

  Expenses

  $7,196,840

  Assets (EOY)

  $41,217,464

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,150,681

  Expenses

  $17,768,073

  Assets (EOY)

  $43,916,800

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,442,635

  Expenses

  $10,205,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $57,872,857

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,464,081

  Expenses

  $12,486,697

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,334,154

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,859,649

  Expenses

  $45,491,352

  Assets (EOY)

  $50,471,035

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $5,442,052

  Assets (EOY)

  $78,543,522

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

• SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE

  $2,000,000

  2025 · PROPERTY ACQUISITION

• CITY OF SANTA ROSA

  $831,357

  2024 · PROPERTY ACQUISITION

• AUDUBON CANYON RANCH

  $269,440

  2024 · FUEL REDUCTION PROJECTS

• SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION

  $250,000

  2024 · PROPERTY ACQUISITION

• CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND

  $200,000

  2024 · SUPPORT PROP 4 INITIATIVE

• CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS

  $170,400

  2024 · FUEL REDUCTION PROJECTS

• SONOMA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION AND OPEN SPACE DISTRICT

  $166,523

  2022 · FUEL REDUCTION AND VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PROJECTS UNDER CALFIRE FIRE PREVENTION GRANT

• SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS

  $138,641

  2024 · FUEL REDUCTION PROJECTS

• AUDUBON CANYON RANCH

  $128,800

  2022 · FUEL REDUCTION AND VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PROJECTS UNDER CALFIRE FIRE PREVENTION GRANT & NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

• SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS

  $89,351

  2023 · FUEL REDUCTION WORK UNDER CAL OES-SVWC COLLBORATIVE.

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $475,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $253,258

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $240,718

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE FORCE FOR NATURE CAMPAIGN, GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $230,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $225,846

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $212,252

  2022 · TO SUPPORT THE FORCE FOR NATURE CAMPAIGN AND GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $206,808

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $191,808

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $182,250

  2023 · PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $180,120

  2023 · SONOMA FORESTS & OAK WOODLANDS FIRE RESILIENCE

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

  $215 raised

  2024 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $101 to charity

• DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

  $6,785 raised

  2023 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $5,195 to charity

• DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

  $8,265 raised

  2022 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $5,372 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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