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SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 39-6089450 MADISON, WI

Revenue 2025
$4,164,829
Expenses 2025
$4,900,884

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
44 E MIFFLIN ST STE 1005

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.

  • HOMER BUELL

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID HANSON

    VICE-CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NANCY DELONG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM ZALE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN MCALEESE

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $227,663
    From this org
    $200,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,663
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $200,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,225
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,438
    Filer's total
    $227,663

  • JIMMY BRAMBLETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DICK CATES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN DUNCAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM FOLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRENT HAGLUND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB PERSCHEL

    DIRECTOR (FROM APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VICTOR HARRIS

    DIRECTOR (FROM FEBRUARY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROD SNYDER

    DIRECTOR (FROM APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STAN TEMPLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ED WARNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNN SCARLETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNNE SHERROD

    DIRECTOR (THRU APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NITA VAIL

    DIRECTOR (THRU APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEIDI PETERSON

    VICE PRESIDENT - AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH & CONSERVAT

    Total calculated
    $176,995
    From this org
    $170,195
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,800
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,195
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $176,995

  • LANCE IRVING

    VICE PRESIDENT - LEOPOLD CONSERVATION AWARD

    Total calculated
    $157,409
    From this org
    $132,295
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,114
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $132,295
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,580
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,534
    Filer's total
    $157,409

  • CHRISTINA SCHELLPFEFFER

    VICE PRESIDENT - EXTERNAL RELATIONS

    Total calculated
    $157,502
    From this org
    $139,533
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,969
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,533
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,760
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,209
    Filer's total
    $157,502

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,164,829
    Expenses
    $4,900,884
    Contributions
    $3,659,493
    Grants paid
    $1,126,059
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,327,567
    Expenses
    $7,536,098
    Contributions
    $6,501,565
    Grants paid
    $1,346,981
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,598,224
    Expenses
    $6,579,675
    Contributions
    $8,806,160
    Grants paid
    $896,846

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
    $6,154,396
    Expenses
    $3,741,399
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,482,706

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,323,113
    Expenses
    $2,988,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,263,056

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,153,007
    Expenses
    $2,828,358
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,254,986

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,480,454
    Expenses
    $2,307,957
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,365,875

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,558,616
    Expenses
    $2,145,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,791,626

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,635,280
    Expenses
    $2,297,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,700,626

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,318,306
    Expenses
    $2,251,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,817,419

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,356,586
    Expenses
    $2,102,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,472,358

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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