SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

• AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION - THE FOUNDATION'S AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM DEMONSTRATES LAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES THAT PROTECT SOIL AND WATER, UTILIZE THEM MORE EFFICIENTLY, AND MAXIMIZE THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS AND PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS. WE STRIVE TO ENSURE THAT CONSERVATION MEASURES ENHANCE THE LONG-TERM PROFITABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF FARMS AND RANCHES.

  Expenses $2,919,495 · Grants $805,356 · Revenue $38,170

• LEOPOLD CONSERVATION AWARD - THE LEOPOLD CONSERVATION AWARD RECOGNIZES FARMERS, RANCHERS AND FORESTERS FOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN CONSERVATION ON WORKING LAND. WITH PROMINENT PARTNERS IN MANY STATES ACROSS THE U.S., THE FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE ANNUAL AWARDS IN SETTINGS THAT SHOWCASE THE LANDOWNERS' CONSERVATION SUCCESS AMONG THEIR PEERS.

  Expenses $970,865 · Grants $200,000 · Revenue $6,375

• CONSERVATION POLICY AND INFLUENCE - THROUGH ITS CONSERVATION POLICY INITIATIVE, THE FOUNDATION USES SOME OF THE SAME PRINCIPLES FROM ITS BODY OF WORK TO BUILD AND SUPPORT ECOSYSTEM-SCALE SPECIES CONSERVATION MODELS, GREATER ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES, AND BETTER USE OF DATA TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION.

  Expenses $121,533 · Grants $120,703

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

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

• ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INNOVATION CENTER

  $902,843

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSES

• AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST

  $333,630

  2025 · INVOLVEMENT IN RCPP FARMER LED PROJECT

• ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES

  $230,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION POLICY & INFLUENCE

• RIVER NETWORK

  $150,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION POLICY & INFLUENCE

• POLICYLINK

  $110,000

  2022 · CONSERVATION POLICY & INFLUENCE

• DUBUQUE SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT

  $101,340

  2025 · INVOLVEMENT IN RCPP FARMER LED PROJECT

• SAUK COUNTY LRE

  $85,924

  2025 · INVOLVEMENT IN RCPP FARMER LED PROJECT

• GREEN COUNTY LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION

  $66,932

  2025 · INVOLVEMENT IN RCPP FARMER LED PROJECT

• CDM SMITH INC

  $50,000

  2022 · WATER DATA PRIZE

• ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INNOVATION CENTER

  $44,244

  2025 · PROJECT SUPPORT

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• WATER FOUNDATION

  $300,000

  2023 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• WINDWARD FUND

  $150,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2024 · PHILANTHROPY

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $96,467

  2023 · IMPROVE AGRICULTURE IN LAKE MICHIGAN

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $85,000

  2023 · PHILANTHROPY

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $75,000

  2022 · PHILANTHROPY

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $63,578

  2022 · REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $59,971

  2024 · IMPROVE AGRICULTURE IN LAKE MICHIGAN

• ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED

  $50,000

  2022

• UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC

  $39,904

  2023 · Innovative Finance

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

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