CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C34

Classification

1200

Street

835 E 2ND AVENUE 305

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

• Constituency Development Program: The Foundation works hand-in-hand with 80 plus organizations and hundreds of citizen advocates throughout the nation. Giving them financial and professional resources for policy, legal, restoration and advocacy work. Their individual strength and success on the ground authentically builds our collective impact, translating to bigger, better and more enduring protections for National Conservation Lands. Resources include but are not limited to: Grants for project-specific work; grants for general support and organizational development; fundraising support, including trainings and resource development; consulting for legal, policy or technical help; trainings for board and staff development; media engagement and communications training; restoration projects and participation at our bi-annual conference, the Friends' Grassroots Network Summit.

  Expenses $4,113,237 · Grants $2,644,284

• Policy and Legal/Conservation Campaigns: The Foundation leads a national movement of community-based advocates to care for America's National Conservation Lands of environmental, cultural and recreational significance. To achieve this, we are building place-based, local proposals to identify places that are worthy of durable and lasting protections now and for future generations. Our work ensures that the voices of conservationists, business owners, sportsmen, Native Americans and others from these local communities are respected and reflected in conservation management policies. This program builds and conveys grassroots and national support for lands deserving of National Conservation Lands designation and improved management policies. CLF also works with our partners to promote and defend the Antiquities Act and other policies vital to caring for America's National Conservation Lands.

  Expenses $2,487,954 · Grants $10,500

• Communications Program: The goal of the communications program is to increase awareness of the values and beauty of the National Conservation Lands to the American people and hold policymakers accountable for their conservation. CLF works with its Friends Grassroots Network and other allies to pursue media coverage of the National Conservation Lands.

  Expenses $541,104

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.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $10,166,862

  Expenses

  $9,074,168

  Contributions

  $9,911,615

  Grants paid

  $2,654,784

• 2025

  Revenue

  $10,166,862

  Expenses

  $9,074,168

  Contributions

  $9,911,615

  Grants paid

  $2,654,784

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,537,207

  Expenses

  $7,225,120

  Contributions

  $5,155,351

  Grants paid

  $2,053,376

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,946,945

  Expenses

  $8,305,217

  Contributions

  $6,672,226

  Grants paid

  $2,087,765

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,075,903

  Expenses

  $8,502,697

  Contributions

  $7,999,863

  Grants paid

  $2,084,009

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

  $7,535,879

  Expenses

  $6,120,261

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,309,607

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,267,898

  Expenses

  $5,711,686

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,932,384

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,556,325

  Expenses

  $6,104,720

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,906,682

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,564,646

  Expenses

  $7,061,470

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,425,014

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,750,777

  Expenses

  $7,028,672

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,981,471

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,991,813

  Expenses

  $4,980,223

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,264,808

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,458,250

  Expenses

  $4,860,272

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,184,111

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,522,765

  Expenses

  $3,858,818

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,555,315

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,690,798

  Expenses

  $3,246,677

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,893,716

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,951,256

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,442,835

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

• Mojave Desert Land Trust

  $410,000

  2025 · Promote conservation

• Transition Habitat Conservancy

  $225,000

  2025 · Promote conservation

• Friends of the Inyo

  $155,000

  2025 · Promote conservation

• Friends of the Desert Mountains

  $110,500

  2025 · Promote conservation

• New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

  $108,500

  2025 · Promote conservation

• New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

  $100,000

  2024 · Promote conservation

• New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

  $100,000

  2023 · Promote conservation

• Friends of the Owyhee

  $90,000

  2023 · Promote conservation

• FRIENDS OF THE INYO

  $85,000

  2022 · PROMOTE CONSERVATION

• CactusToCloud Institute

  $84,000

  2025 · Promote conservation

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $661,100

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $600,000

  2023 · SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• NEW VENTURE FUND

  $450,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $429,450

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $255,550

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $250,000

  2024 · PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $196,150

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $62,028

  2024 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $60,000

  2023 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRON. EQUITY AND JUSTICE.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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