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WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST INC

EIN 13-3507910 BEDFORD HILLS, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,176,146
Expenses 2024
$1,919,319

Program services were 73.5% 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
403 HARRIS RD

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

Mission

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural features or values.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural and aesthetic environment and resources of Westchester County, eastern Putnam County and its environs.

  • Westchester Land Trust (WLT) is a regional conservation organization that conserves and cares for land in urban, suburban, and rural communities located in Westchester and eastern Putnam counties of New York. Its land preservation efforts serve the public by protecting drinking water supplies, climate-resilient lands, trails for passive recreation and scenic enjoyment, wildlife habitats, farmland, and urban green spaces, such as community gardens and pocket parks. - continued on Schedule O -Since 1988 WLT has preserved more than 9,300 acres of open space, and 20 miles of hiking trails in 29 communities. WLT has protected parcels of land ranging from a quarter of an acre to over 600 acres. In 2024, WLT preserved an additional 85 acres across two projects. Community members enjoyed thousands of visits to WLT's preserves in 2024. Fourteen WLT nature preserves are open to the public year-round and free of charge. The remaining preserves serve as wildlife sanctuaries that are not open to the public. WLT partners with the State of New York, Westchester and Putnam counties, private landowners, and municipalities to acquire and care for land.WLT is committed to community education about the protection of natural resources, wildlife habitats, and sustainable agriculture. WLT collaborates with dozens of national, regional, and local organizations on programming and projects to help advance its mission. WLT's mobile education program, the Pollinator Pop-Up, appeared at 21 events in 2024, allowing WLT to connect with more than 1,600 community members about environmental topics. WLT's headquarters, Sugar Hill Farm, is the site of a half-acre organic garden, where vegetables are grown and distributed to local food pantries. Since its founding, more than 84,500 servings of fresh produce have been donated to families in need of food. Volunteers are the backbone of WLT's work. In 2024 volunteers donated more than 940 hours of their time to support WLT's land protection and community engagement programs. WLT's protected lands are home to more than 1,300 species of native plants and animals. In addition to proactive land protection, land stewardship is an important component of WLT's mission. WLT regularly conducts land management and habitat restoration projects on publically accessible lands that it owns or holds conservation easements on. In 2024, WLT contracted with youth conservationists to help launch a landscape-scale forest health project spanning all its preserves. WLT also employs summer conservation apprentices as part of its conservation career development program.

    Expenses $1,409,831 · Revenue $39,944

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.

  • Bruce Churchill

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe Edgar

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Ansel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Clifford H Aronson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Christopher Boege

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dina Dublon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Chantel McGee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lee Manning-Vogelstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Gary Perusse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Offutt A Porter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Norma Silva

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jennifer Schwartz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Carine Verschueren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Tony Freund

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dr Diana Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Matt Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nanette Bourne

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Sheerin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dave Tobias

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Amy Fergusen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Karch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bruce Ward

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kara H Whelan

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    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, 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,176,146
    Expenses
    $1,919,319
    Contributions
    $1,755,621
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,848,710
    Expenses
    $3,614,056
    Contributions
    $3,548,324
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,275,102
    Expenses
    $2,014,128
    Contributions
    $2,801,375
    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
    $3,018,345
    Expenses
    $2,589,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,402,235

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,127,131
    Expenses
    $1,150,441
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,808,835

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,415,545
    Expenses
    $1,252,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,366,557

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,443,124
    Expenses
    $3,150,747
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,521,342

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,544,660
    Expenses
    $1,207,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,627,260

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,336,399
    Expenses
    $1,248,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,998,103

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,564,696
    Expenses
    $1,299,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,792,247

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,531,348
    Expenses
    $1,447,860
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,839,635

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,626,497
    Expenses
    $1,168,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,135,428

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,327,556
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,488,160

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

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

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.