- Revenue 2024
- $1,611,452
- Expenses 2024
- $955,544
Program services were 78.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 352
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).
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.
-
KAREN LAVIN
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
RANDY SCHIETZELT
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MARK NEWTON
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
SHAWN KINGZETTE
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
DERS ANDERSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID HALL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MELISSA COONEY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
STEVE WENZEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KURT TAYLOR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ROB MCCORMICK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KATHY REILAND
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SANDRA SCHEINFELD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHRISTINE NYE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TERRY WILLCOCKSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LISA HADERLEIN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $85,844
- From this org
- $75,324
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,520
- Hours/week
- 40
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 — 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
- $1,611,452
- Expenses
- $955,544
- Contributions
- $1,491,997
- Grants paid
- $15,000
-
2023
- Revenue
- $993,217
- Expenses
- $819,531
- Contributions
- $875,566
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $2,887,856
- Expenses
- $773,391
- Contributions
- $2,710,409
- Grants paid
- $12,501
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.
Grants made
-
2024 RAICES LATINAS PARTNER
-
$5,000
2024 RAICES LATINAS PARTNER
-
2024 RAICES LATINAS PARTNER
Grants received
-
2022 Acquisition of Thompson Road Wetland and Oak Woods (197 acres)
-
2022 Acquisition of Thompson Road Wetland and Oak Woods Addition (76.3 acres)
-
$139,195
2024 ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS
-
$135,000
2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
$110,000
2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
-
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$90,100
2023 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
-
$80,000
2022 In support of Deepening Connections: Getting Farmers on the Land in McHenry County, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
-
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$33,034
2022 PRESERVING OAK ECOSYSTEMS
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 10 September 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.