CATAWBA LANDS CONSERVANCY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

2400 PARK ROAD SUITE 1

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

• Land Acquisition: Catawba Lands Conservancy (Conservancy) protected five (5) new properties in 2024, totaling 126 acres in three (3) counties. The Conservancy works with willing landowners and communities to conserve land in perpetuity by placing voluntary conservation easements on land, accepting donations of land, and occasionally purchasing land. CLC serves a seven-county region in North Carolina that includes: Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Union, and parts of Cabarrus counties. Our conservation efforts focus on four areas: local farms, wildlife/plant habitat, water quality and connecting people to nature. Additionally, many of our properties have important species and habitat that the state of North Carolina designated as Natural Heritage Areas. Further, some of the properties provide critical habitat for state or federally listed threatened or endangered plants or animals.

  Expenses $3,692,877

• The Carolina Thread Trail is an initiative to develop a regional network of greenways, trails and blueways (river paddling trails) that covers 1,600 miles and reaches 15 counties in both North and South Carolina, centered on the Greater Charlotte metropolitan area. It is a unique collaboration that will connect communities and conserved land via a network of trails developed through the implementation of locally adopted master plans that all connect to create a single network. The development of the network is predicated on cultivating partnerships with a variety of entities such as local governments, other non-profits and foundations, and private landowners.This long-term project will permanently protect the region's history, natural beauty, and social diversity, while conserving local lands and fostering free and equitable accessibility for residents and visitors. This includes enhancing bicycle and pedestrian transportation as a viable and convenient choice. The Thread Trail will connect more than 2.5 million citizens in North and South Carolina. It will connect points of regional and local significance. It provides multiple public benefits including economic development, conservation of land, enhancement of water quality, cleaner air, non-motorized transportation, and healthy recreation activities. At the end of 2024, there were 1,630 planned trail miles, of which approximately 435 trail miles and 200 designated blueway miles are complete.Previously, Carolina Thread Trail was a separate corporation that was a supporting organization of Foundation for the Carolinas. As of December 31, 2022, Catawba Lands Conservancy and Carolina Thread Trail merged. The merger eliminated the separate corporate entity for Carolina Thread Trail but otherwise did not affect its goals, objectives, personnel or plans.

  Expenses $1,329,517 · Grants $74,500

• Land Stewardship: The Conservancy intentionally stewards its conservation assets. Staff monitors activities on fee owned land through site visits. Current conditions are evaluated against the conditions observed by the Baseline Documentation Report at the time of acquisition. Photographs may be taken and a monitoring report is generated and archived and the site visit is documented in a site visit report. As part of perpetual due diligence, the Conservancy ensures the plant, wildlife, and other conservation values remain undisturbed and protected. Where appropriate on fee owned property, the Conservancy provides public access opportunities, including both blueways and hiking trails, independently and through Carolina Thread Trail. Facilities for public access include a canoe/kayak launch (Spencer Mt. River Access and Pharr Family Preserve access), the Adam Springs Portage Trail, and canoe/kayak take-out (R.Y. McAden Access); and natural surface or paved hiking trails at the South Fork Trail, South Fork Rail Trail, Long Creek Preserve, Seven Oaks Preserve, Pharr Family Preserve, Buffalo Creek Preserve, Sallys Y Preserve, Catawba Springs Preserve, Girl Scouts, and Eastover Ridge Preserve. The Conservancy also monitors conservation easements using the same protocols as fee owned land. On private property protected by conservation easements, the Conservancy works with willing land owners to further enhance the conservation values of the protected property.

  Expenses $735,745

• Other - Other program expenses relate primarily to community education, outreach, and public programming.

  Expenses $23,855

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.

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $7,293,034

  Expenses

  $6,199,207

  Contributions

  $6,924,158

  Grants paid

  $74,500

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,758,196

  Expenses

  $5,744,961

  Contributions

  $5,233,933

  Grants paid

  $545,405

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,758,196

  Expenses

  $5,361,931

  Contributions

  $5,233,933

  Grants paid

  $162,375

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,775,151

  Expenses

  $3,573,737

  Contributions

  $2,135,219

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,775,151

  Expenses

  $3,892,787

  Contributions

  $2,135,219

  Grants paid

  $319,050

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

  $8,032,121

  Expenses

  $2,781,754

  Assets (EOY)

  $41,867,987

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,841,591

  Expenses

  $3,329,320

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,671,486

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,841,591

  Expenses

  $3,329,320

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,671,486

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,512,846

  Expenses

  $2,148,122

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,422,274

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,220,332

  Expenses

  $5,690,893

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,437,538

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,901,209

  Expenses

  $4,152,623

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,189,355

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,901,209

  Expenses

  $4,152,623

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,189,355

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,323,237

  Expenses

  $2,373,853

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,211,854

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,128,032

  Expenses

  $2,465,102

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,156,264

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,128,032

  Expenses

  $2,465,102

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,156,264

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

• Town of McAdenville

  $150,000

  2023 · Trail construction

• Town of Lowell

  $127,080

  2023 · Trail construction

• Cleveland County Water Commis

  $125,000

  2023 · Trail construction

• City of Mount Holly

  $100,000

  2024 · Trail construction

• Mecklenburg County

  $100,000

  2022 · Trail Construction

• Gaston County

  $92,375

  2023 · Trail construction

• City of Concord

  $70,000

  2023 · Trail construction

• Town of Spencer

  $50,000

  2024 · Trail construction

• Town of Matthews

  $50,000

  2022 · Trail Construction

• Cherokee County

  $45,000

  2022 · Trail Construction

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $4,285,805

  2023 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $759,204

  2024 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $317,417

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $115,065

  2022 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $91,300

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $81,750

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $68,675

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $65,725

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $63,127

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $51,150

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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