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CAYUCOS LAND CONSERVANCY

EIN 77-0506896 CAYUCOS, CA

Revenue 2025
$595,206
Expenses 2025
$360,862

Program services were 90.6% 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 336

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

The Cayucos Land Conservancy is committed to the enduring preservation of the rural greenbelt that surrounds Cayucos, California. Preserving this historic and stunning open space is the primary goal of the land conservancy, so that future generations enjoy this place.

  • Through a land preservation agreement deeded in 1999, the Cayucos Land Conservancy CLC participates in the management of the 355 acre Estero Bluffs State Park, a four mile coastal terrace north of Cayucos and the crown jewel of CLC accomplishments. CLC offers a Bluffs Walks program with guides who are knowledgeable on some aspect of the valuable natural resources at the site. Additionally, periodic volunteer work days are held to address issues as CLC continually works to address access, resource, and visitor concerns. CLC continues to preserve hillside parcels in the antiquated subdivisions overlooking the community. The organization currently holds title to 431 of those parcels, approximately 45 acres, many of which are unbuildable. As all parcels are outside the Urban Reserve Line, with no utility services, the CLC goal is the preservation of the land as part of the greenbelt around Cayucos. A voluntary land owner agreement granted CLC a Conservation Easement CE, finalized in 2007, protecting the 865 acre San Geronimo Ranch as a working cattle ranch. CLC contributed over $120,000 towards the purchase price of this CE. This beautiful property cements the greenbelt to the north of Cayucos. After 10 years of planning, CLC entered into an agreement with other land conservation organizations to purchase almost 1,500 acres from the Chevron Corporation on the southern border of Cayucos. As land is acquired, it is deeded to the County of San Luis Obispo for the future Toro Coast Preserve TCP Regional Park. Two of the three Phases of land purchases have been successfully completed. To date CLC has contributed $825,000, money donated by our supporters, towards TCP land purchases in this special collaborative effort. CLC, and its partners, continue to plan for Phase 3 and work towards acquiring all of the Toro Creek Preserve land by 2030. As of December 31, 2025 the Cayucos Land Conservancy holds land Conservation Easements on 1,220 acres, holds land in Fee Title on 45 acres, and has helped secure a majority of the 1,500 acre Toro Creek Preserve for future generations. CLC continues to offer, and works to develop, additional programs to educate our community about the value of open spaces in improving the quality of our life on the California Central Coast. Most importantly, the Cayucos Land Conservancy continues to preserve our important places for future generations to enjoy.

    Expenses $327,073 · Grants $309,204

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.

  • GLENN OELKER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LOUISA SMITH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • TOM SOOTER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CAROL WARDEN

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TIM RIDOUT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMBER SANDOVAL

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • THOMAS SEVILLE

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • ANDREA HORVATH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SCOTT MCMANUS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY NEWMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • COREY STAFFORD

    Director

    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
    $595,206
    Expenses
    $360,862
    Contributions
    $522,104
    Grants paid
    $309,204
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $820,128
    Expenses
    $439,097
    Contributions
    $744,723
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $226,501
    Expenses
    $45,997
    Contributions
    $186,188
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $205,083
    Expenses
    $53,078
    Contributions
    $168,420
    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
    $176,907
    Expenses
    $31,987
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,365,893

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $176,907
    Expenses
    $31,987
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,365,893

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,323
    Expenses
    $152,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,155,201

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $297,935
    Expenses
    $33,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,670,520

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,593
    Expenses
    $28,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,314,192

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,966
    Expenses
    $32,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,037,475

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $169,552
    Expenses
    $42,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $961,186

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $51,011
    Expenses
    $55,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $833,690

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $51,367
    Expenses
    $39,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $773,317

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $88,646
    Expenses
    $22,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $761,726

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

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Grants received

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