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WORKING LANDS TRUST INC

EIN 46-2913344 GOLD HILL, NC

Revenue 2023
$4,206,112
Expenses 2023
$4,166,697

Program services were 98.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C36
Classification
1000
Street
530 CASPER 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 · 2023

Mission

TO SUSTAIN NORTH CAROLINA'S FOOD AND FIBER SUPPLY - FROM THE APPALACHIANS TO THE OUTER BANKS - THROUGH THE CONSERVATION OF OUR WORKING FARMS AND FORESTS

  • ONGOING PROCUREMENT OF CONSERVATION EASEMENTS TO PRESERVE FARMLAND, SCENIC CORRIDORS, HISTORIC AREAS, IMPORTANT HABITAT AND WATER QUALITY BUFFERS. ONGOING MONITORING OF 20 PLUS CONSERVATION EASEMENTS COVERING MORE THAN 1,000 ACRES OF PRESERVED LAND

    Expenses $4,095,228

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michael Fulk

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $40,155
    From this org
    $40,155
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Phillip Farland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.92
  • Dewitt Hardee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Edward Hunt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jack Jordan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.92
  • Jasmine Locklear

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jessica Long

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Chester Lowder

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.15
  • Mark Megalos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.31
  • James Narron

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.92
  • Allen Plaster

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.15
  • Mikki Sager

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.31
  • Bob Schaefer

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.31

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,206,112
    Expenses
    $4,166,697
    Contributions
    $4,203,656
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,234,620
    Expenses
    $181,274
    Contributions
    $7,250,276
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,273,261
    Expenses
    $7,051,433
    Contributions
    $7,288,917
    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
    $12,071,093
    Expenses
    $292,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,486,316
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,742,953
    Expenses
    $206,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,713,679
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,963,639
    Expenses
    $204,809
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,199,154
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,836,224
    Expenses
    $39,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,397,972
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,222,685
    Expenses
    $53,745
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,990,877

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Bob Schaefer
Mailing address
1600 Glenwood AveRaleigh NC 27608

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.