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PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE LAKECOUNTY FOREST PRESERVES

EIN 26-0285660 LIBERTYVILLE, IL

Revenue 2025
$4,421,804
Expenses 2025
$671,265

Program services were 98.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C193
Classification
1000
Street
1899 W WINCHESTER 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).

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.

  • MATTHEW COHN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA DANKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS HEIER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH HOUGH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN HUNTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES KIRBY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX KOVACH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • BILLY MCKINNEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFFERSON MCMILLAN-WILHOIT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL RUMMEL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL TUTTY

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSICA VEALITZEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY VINCENT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN WASIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHAD WAYNEE

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RENEE YOUNG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REBEKAH SNYDER

    INTERIM EXEC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • ERIKA STERGOS

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,421,804
    Expenses
    $671,265
    Contributions
    $4,355,237
    Grants paid
    $663,274
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,386,754
    Expenses
    $679,186
    Contributions
    $2,762,348
    Grants paid
    $668,488
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,326,253
    Expenses
    $4,634,633
    Contributions
    $2,843,672
    Grants paid
    $4,399,418
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,207,316
    Expenses
    $437,749
    Contributions
    $4,336,868
    Grants paid
    $411,435

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

  • LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRIC

    $2,359,781

    2023

  • LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRIC

    $1,445,808

    2023

  • LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRIC

    $663,274

    2025 PROJECTS & PROGRAMS

  • LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRIC

    $422,322

    2023

  • THE LAKE COUNTRY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT

    $385,435

    2022 THE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVES, A NONPROFIT 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION, WAS FOUNDED TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL WAYS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO PARTNER IN THE MISSION OF THE LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT. THE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION'S PURPOSES ARE CHARITABLE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND EDUCATIONAL WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION SHALL WITHIN THESE PURPOSES RECEIVE AND ADMINISTER FUNDS, RAISE FUNDS, AND MAKE DISTRIBUTIONS TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT. THE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION PROVIDES FUNDS THAT HELP THE DISTRICT ACCOMPLISH ITS MISSION, HELPING TO ACQUIRE AND RESTORE ITS LANDS FOR THE 3.5 MILLION VISITORS IT SERVES.

  • LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRIC

    $325,613

    2024

  • LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRIC

    $222,875

    2024

  • COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION

    $96,507

    2023

  • FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES

    $95,000

    2024

  • FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES

    $75,000

    2023

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

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Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2025 return

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.