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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY

EIN 23-2191037 CARLISLE, PA

Revenue 2024
$2,681,756
Expenses 2024
$88,143

Program services were 82.1% 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
401 E LOUTHER ST STE 308

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 mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and preserved lands by fostering a community committed to conservation and acquiring key lands and easements.The organization is an accredited land trust with the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, a mark of distinction in land conservation. Accredited land trusts meet national quality standards of sound finances, ethical conduct, responsible governance, and lasting stewardship. They uphold the public trust and ensure that conservation efforts are permanent.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region.

  • Land Protection Program. CPC's Land Protection Committee directs the land protection activities of the organization within a five-county service area: Cumberland, Franklin, Perry, Dauphin, and Juniata Counties. CPC has prioritized the protection of key landscapes in our region: the Kittatinny Ridge Corridor and the South Mountain Landscape, targeting healthy forests, wildlife habitat, watershed and riparian protection, agricultural preservation, public access for outdoor recreation, and culturally important areas that define our natural heritage. The committee also oversees stewardship and annual monitoring of 31 conservation easement properties and 5 nature preserves. During 2024, CPC purchased 900+ acres of Camp Tuckahoe that will be transferred from CPC to DCNR and related entities for public use.

    Expenses $72,347

  • Letort Spring Garden Preserve. In 2018, CPC acquired and is now actively managing its flagship nature preserve, the Letort Spring Garden Preserve. This former commercial watercress farm consists of springs, seeps, headwaters, meadows, and forest buffer to the Letort Spring Run, a coldwater limestone stream important to fly anglers, naturalists, historians, and local residents. CPC aims to manage and improve the site for public access, recreation, historic preservation, interpretation, and ecological health and function.

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • LAURA MORAN DANKO

    Pres/Interim ED

    Total calculated
    $3,150
    From this org
    $3,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JASON ANDREW BEALE

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $2,142
    From this org
    $2,142
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOHN W CARROLL ESQ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN LUTZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC KLINEDINST

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUSTIN L LADNER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DON MAINS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • META BOWMAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN ALLEN CPA

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT SHAW

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MELANIE WERTZ

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,681,756
    Expenses
    $88,143
    Contributions
    $2,635,380
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $663,818
    Expenses
    $642,681
    Contributions
    $633,369
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $288,113
    Expenses
    $661,262
    Contributions
    $277,723
    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
    $383,103
    Expenses
    $250,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,406,457

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $732,051
    Expenses
    $630,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,358,869

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $871,081
    Expenses
    $204,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,222,727

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $650,113
    Expenses
    $179,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,552,589

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $664,371
    Expenses
    $172,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,112,843

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $176,463
    Expenses
    $168,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $617,414

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $440,837
    Expenses
    $163,212
    Assets (EOY)
    $599,485

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $153,739
    Expenses
    $128,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $380,948

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $103,894
    Expenses
    $131,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $326,904

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $175,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,469

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.