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LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION

EIN 37-1413944 CHAMPAIGN, IL

Revenue 2025
$1,365,124
Expenses 2025
$1,341,810

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K20
Classification
1000
Street
206 N RANDOLPH ST STE 400

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 · 2025

Mission

THE LAND CONNECTION TRAINS FARMERS IN RESILIENT, RESTORATIVE FARMING TECHNIQUES; INFORMS THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE SOURCES OF OUR FOOD AND WHY THAT MATTERS; AND WORKS TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE FARMLAND SO THAT WE, AND GENERATIONS TO COME, WILL HAVE CLEAN AIR AND WATER, FERTILE SOIL, AND HEALTHY, DELICIOUS FOOD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION (TLC) IS AN EDUCATIONAL NONPROFIT THAT ENVISIONS A COMMUNITY-BASED FOOD SYSTEM IN WHICH FARMERS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW FOOD IN A SUSTAINABLE MANNER AND EVERY PERSON CAN ACCESS LOCALLY GROWN AND PRODUCED FOODS. WE FULFILL OUR MISSION THROUGH FARMER TRAINING, FOOD ACCESS, AND CONSUMER EDUCATION.

  • FARMER TRAINING PROGRAMMING: TLC PROVIDES WORKSHOPS, FIELD DAYS, RESOURCES, AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO FARMERS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERIENCE LEVELS TO HELP THEM OPERATE ECONOMICALLY VIABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE ENTERPRISES.

    Expenses $473,206 · Grants $16,707 · Revenue $57,665

  • FOOD ACCESS: TLC HOSTS THE CHAMPAIGN FARMERS MARKET AND CHAMPAIGN-URBANA WINTER FARMERS MARKET EACH YEAR TO PROVIDE A SPACE IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO ACCESS FRESH, LOCALLY GROWN AND PRODUCED FOOD. THROUGH THE MARKET WE WORK TO GROW THE FOOD BUDGETS OF PEOPLE UTILIZING SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION BENEFIT PROGRAMS FOR FOOD PURCHASES AND HELP SMALL, BEGINNING FARM BUSINESSES ENTER THE DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER MARKET.

    Expenses $353,663 · Revenue $40,295

  • ILLINOIS FARMLINK: WE PROVIDE A WEBSITE AND NAVIGATION SERVICES TO FARMERS AND LANDOWNERS IN ILLINOIS LOOKING TO BUY, SELL, OR LEASE AGRICULTURAL LAND.

    Expenses $319,662 · Revenue $2,880

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Alisa Demarco

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Lisa Bralts Kelly

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Bishop

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Lauher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jordan James

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ming-Hwa Martin

    TREASURER (THRU 10/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Roxanne Sawhill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacob Taylor

    DIRECTOR (THRU 5/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacquelyn Evers

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $119,915
    From this org
    $113,548
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,367
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,365,124
    Expenses
    $1,341,810
    Contributions
    $1,268,213
    Grants paid
    $16,707
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,288,870
    Expenses
    $1,172,596
    Contributions
    $1,219,516
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,226,686
    Expenses
    $1,148,444
    Contributions
    $1,098,850
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $818,229
    Expenses
    $754,116
    Contributions
    $725,086
    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
    $595,859
    Expenses
    $485,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $291,501

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $360,519
    Expenses
    $385,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $170,166

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $416,854
    Expenses
    $423,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $181,643

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $274,063
    Expenses
    $405,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $188,857

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,869
    Expenses
    $359,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,884

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,829
    Expenses
    $403,753
    Assets (EOY)
    $440,252

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $320,525
    Expenses
    $338,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $457,773

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $372,668
    Expenses
    $385,906
    Assets (EOY)
    $490,430

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $243,985
    Expenses
    $246,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $575,539

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $139,817
    Assets (EOY)
    $510,039

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

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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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.