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CONSERVATION BURIAL INC

EIN 27-0268610 GAINESVILLE, FL

Revenue 2025
$433,235
Expenses 2025
$343,271

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
13
NTEE code
Y50
Classification
1000
Street
7204 SE COUNTY ROAD 234

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The mission of Conservation Burial Inc. (CBI) is to provide a natural burial choice that conserves land and reunites people with the earth. CBI staff regularly host free presentations and workshops designed to help people with end-of-life planning and share details about their available choices. Staff also provide additional educational presentations to hospice and medical organizations, schools, service organization, religious institutions and funeral homes to increase community awareness of all the choices available to them. An important aspect of CBI's values is its goal of keeping their burial fees as affordable as possible. By doing this, CBI helps people and the planet by making what arguably is the most environmentally friendly choice of body disposition, an affordable option to as many folks as possible.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Primary Exempt Purpose: The mission of Conservation Burial Inc. (CBI) is to provide a natural burial choice that conserves land and reunites people with the earth. CBI staff regularly host free presentations and workshops designed to help people with end-of-life planning and share details about their available choices. Staff also provide additional educational presentations to hospice and medical organizations, schools, service organization, religious institutions and funeral homes to increase community awareness of all the choices available to them. An important aspect of CBI's values is its goal of keeping their burial fees as affordable as possible. By doing this, CBI helps people and the planet by making what arguably is the most environmentally friendly choice of body disposition, an affordable option to as many folks as possible.

  • Cemetery operations: CBI continues to operate Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery (PCCC), one of less than 30 certified conservation burial grounds in the United States. Conservation Burial grounds provide the choice for a totally natural burial (no vault, no embalming and only biodegradable containers) combined with the legacy of forever protecting and managing the associated land by way of a conservation easement. In 2025 CBI/PCCC helped families perform 108 natural body burials, 52 burials of cremated remains and 10 burials of human companion(pet) remains. Community volunteers supporting the organization's mission contributed over 2202 hours of service. Land restoration: As a part of managing the 93 acres of PCCC, CBI actively pursues a land stewardship plan developed in conjunction with its land trust partner, Alachua Conservation Trust (ACT). This includes removing secondary hardwoods and replanting with an ecologically diverse set of species. The stewardship plan also includes the creation and management of a native wildflower and pollinator meadow feature in the cemetery. Advocacy: CBI staff regularly host free workshops on the subject of end-of-life planning (advance directives) and various body disposition choices. CBI staff also perform presentations and table displays in local churches, medical organizations, hospices, religious institutions and funeral homes to bring more awareness of the different choices available to people in the community.

    Expenses $343,271 · Revenue $259,276

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.

  • Heather Grove

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $69,512
    From this org
    $69,512
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Doug Hornbeck

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Houston Wells

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Marynowski

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin Conlin

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Bettina Moser

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sterling Davenport

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Freddie Johnson

    Memeber

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    9
  • Buddy Irby

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susie Lyons

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Helen Strain

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sally Palmi

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5
  • Robert Christianson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Sven Hansen

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sam Welker

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $433,235
    Expenses
    $343,271
    Contributions
    $173,959
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $445,449
    Expenses
    $292,619
    Contributions
    $170,149
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $453,605
    Expenses
    $232,523
    Contributions
    $209,475
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $408,375
    Expenses
    $218,958
    Contributions
    $166,023
    Grants paid
    $1,250

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
    $445,817
    Expenses
    $172,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $702,104
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $247,593
    Expenses
    $163,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $376,867
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $181,120
    Expenses
    $140,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $262,030
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $161,044
    Expenses
    $139,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,517

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.

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 EO.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.