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LAND IN COMMON INC

EIN 26-3832721 GREENE, ME

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Revenue 2024
$889,481
Expenses 2024
$454,516

Program services were 83.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
217 S MOUNTAIN RD

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

Land in Common removes land from speculative markets and places it into a member-run trust, to be cared for over the long-term by its residents. We are creating a multi-generational land base for sustainable livelihoods that supports communities working for just, cooperative, and resilient futures.

  • Fiscal Sponsorship:We fiscally sponsor Journey ONEderland, a community-based organization strengthening relationships between people and the earth through healing retreats, art, science, and outdoor recreation. Over the course of 2024, Journey ONEderland offered nature-based education and healing programs, including hands-on ecological science for youth, sailing trips, and outdoor community events and celebrations to deepen nature connection for people experiencing systemic barriers to land access.

    Expenses $101,588

  • Land Access:We protect land where people live and work, by removing land from speculative markets and placing it into a cooperatively-held, community-stewarded Commons. We work with land-seeking communities and organizations that historically and presently are excluded from land ownership, and connect them with secure, life-long, and affordable land and infrastructure. In 2024, we created three new land-based communities through this program. We purchased a farm in Porter, Maine which is now the home of La Finca Cooperative, a BIPOC-majority farm cooperative supporting community food security and land connection. We purchased a 66 acre parcel of land along the Little River in Belfast, Maine, which is now a shared community space, offering outdoor and indoor gathering space for a host of local organizations and groups. Finally, we protected a parcel of land along the Sandy River in Avon, Maine, which is now the home to Generations Retreat and Grow Farm, an organization offering outdoor wilderness and agricultural educational opportunities.

    Expenses $82,305

  • Movement Building & Education:In this program, we build the land justice movement through community education and gatherings. We hosted events and spoke on panels to educate the public about land justice. We convened community organizers from multiple communities across Maine to coordinate their activism, share learnings, and build community together.

    Expenses $55,804

  • Wabanaki Solidarity:Our Wabanaki Solidarity work takes a few different forms. In 2024, we collaborated closely with First Light to plan a year-long "learning journey" to educate non-native conservation professionals about ways to deepend their support for Wabanaki land re-connection. We co-coordinate a working group with the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship that supports fundraising for the Wabanaki land reconnection fund (Wolankeytomone kisi apaciyewik). And we particiate as a member of the Conservation Community Delegation to the Wabanaki Commission, supporting land return in various ways. In addition, we have been working on returning an additional 34 acres of forest land we hold to Bomazeen Land Trust, a Wabanaki-led 501(c)(3) conservation organization.

    Expenses $48,551

  • Grassroots Housing Collab:We are developing a grassroots model for affordable housing development on land held by community land trusts. In 2024, we conducted research into funding and materials sourcing options, and organized resources and volunteers. We began work on a pilot housing project in Greene that we are using to test and hone our housing model; we completed planning and siting, identified contractors, and raised funds. With this groundwork completed, we are on track to construct the first unit of housing in 2025.

    Expenses $46,878

  • Land Stewardship:This area of our work is focused on stewarding the land that we hold. We hold in trust and protect over 500 acres of agricultural and wildlands across four counties in Maine. This land is home to 9 different land-based projects, including farms, an affordable housing community, and multiple shared community spaces. In this program, we work to ensure the land and the people living and working on the land have the resources they need to thrive. Our work included collaborating with land stewards to amend land tenure agreements to better facilitate the sharing of resources and space, and partnering with Wabanaki foresters to develop climate-informed forest management plans to ensure the long term wellbeing of the wildlands.

    Expenses $40,694

  • Land Protection:A core part of our work is bringing land into fee ownership by Land in Common for long-term protection. In 2024, we were able to acquire three new properties, totallying 197.5 acres: a 15.4 acre farm in Porter, Maine; a 66 acre parcel of forested land in Belfast, Maine including significant undeveloped portions of the Little River; and 116.1 acres in Avon, Maine consisting of significant farmland and forest and nearly 1/4 mile of frontage on the Sandy River. All of these properties have now been matched with long-term stewards, and we are working closely with Wabanaki foresters to develop long-term forestry and conservation plans.

    Expenses $3,714

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.

  • Ethan Miller

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $60,000
    From this org
    $60,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kathryn Boverman

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daphne Loring

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Camille Parrish

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katharine Gaillard

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jonah Fertig-Burd

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nathan Brimmer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sherie Blumenthal

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ethan Miller

    CO-COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

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
    $889,481
    Expenses
    $454,516
    Contributions
    $866,393
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $386,885
    Expenses
    $516,241
    Contributions
    $364,553
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $589,234
    Expenses
    $208,108
    Contributions
    $566,908
    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
    $455,501
    Expenses
    $99,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,016,744

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $449,303
    Expenses
    $96,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,016,744

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $146,714
    Expenses
    $18,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $687,069

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Sherie Blumenthal
Mailing address
217 S MOUNTAIN RDGREENE ME 042363942

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.