2016-11-23T07:49:34-08:00 2016-06-30 Rudd & Company PLLC 3805 Valley Commons Drive Suite 7 Bozeman MT 59718 990 2015-07-01 810464513 GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST GALL 4065878404 212 S WALLACE STE 102 BOZEMAN MT 59715 BILL COCHRAN Treasurer 2016-11-23 true SCOTT HOLTON CPA P00432520 4065853393 2015 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z 2280055 false false X www.glvt.org X 1990 MT GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST CONNECTS PEOPLE, COMMUNITIES, AND OPEN LANDS THROUGH CONSERVATION OF WORKING FARMS AND RANCHES, HEALTHY RIVERS, WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND THE CREATION OF TRAILS IN THE MONTANA HEADWATERS OF THE MISSOURI AND UPPER YELLOWSTONE RIVERS. 18 18 10 908 0 1021233 1946914 88045 63290 335073 37140 121530 159960 1565881 2207304 0 0 544665 534547 0 118726 408772 554073 953437 1088620 612444 1118684 2345098 3468175 44365 65962 2300733 3402213 GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST CONNECTS PEOPLE, COMMUNITIES, AND OPEN LANDS THROUGH CONSERVATION OF WORKING FARMS AND RANCHES, HEALTHY RIVERS, WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND THE CREATION OF TRAILS IN THE MONTANA HEADWATERS OF THE MISSOURI AND UPPER YELLOWSTONE RIVERS. false false 364352 22959 Community Trails - In FY16, GVLTs Community Trails Program continued with itsmission to connect people, communities, and the land through collaborative trail projects. In our 26-year history, GVLT has helped create over 80 miles of trail. This year we upgraded Snowfill Recreation Area with 10 new parking spots, a second entry gate, bike racks, and a vault toilet; installed a new custom-designed bridge at the entrance to Peets Hill, Bozemans flagship park; built a mile of new trail, including an off-leash dog area in the newly expanded Bozeman Pond Park and also funded, designed, and constructed a natural playground; installed creative dog waste signage at 26 locations; and coordinated the Trail Ambassador program with 10 partner organizations to use volunteer trail ambassadors foreducation and outreach with over 2,000 trail users. 354820 30900 Land Conservation GVLT furthered its mission to conserve working farms andranches, wildlife habitat, and river corridors in the Gallatin Valley in FY16. We collaborated with three families to conserve 1,939 acres of land in Gallatin County. These projects included critical wildlife habitat, 5th generation farmland, and highly visible scenic open space just north of Bozeman. This brings our total conserved land to over 45,000 acres in 100 conservation easements. We visit each of these conservation easements and landowners annually to provide stewardship support and monitoring to those properties. In FY16, we assisted 19 stewardship enhancement projects on the ground, worth a total of $6,800 to enhance forest health, control noxious weeds, and plant streamside and wetland vegetation. 132450 Education The GVLT website is updated monthly with current news relating tocommunity trails, private land conservation and events open to the public. Our website also hosts a transparency section with our Audit, annual report, and Form 990. We communicate with over 10,000 community members through a monthly electronic newsletter and social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. In FY16 we had 908 volunteers give over 2,900 hours for the organization, and all volunteers are educated about the mission and accomplishments of GVLT during their service. The free Discovery Walks program guided 345 people to learn about GVLT, the trails, and interesting topics like wildflowers, birds, yoga and more. The new TrailsRX program collaborated with local physicians to write over 60 trail walk prescriptions for patients. 851622 true true false false false false true false false true true false false false false false true false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 27 0 true 10 true false false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 18 18 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false X X PENELOPE PIERCE 4065878404 212 S WALLACE STE 102 BOZEMAN MT 59715 X BOB SANDS Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 VAL DRAKE Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 TODD GRAHAM Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 MARK KEHKE VICE CHAIR 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 BILL COCHRAN Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 MEGHANN MCKENNA Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MIKE RILEY Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 SUE PEDERSON Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DOTTY BALLANTYNE Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 WILL PRICE Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 SAM JAMES Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 STEVE SCHNEE Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KATY HARJES Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 WHITNEY TILT Chairman 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JON CATTON Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 SIGNE FARRIS Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 HAL STANLEY Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DENNY RAFFENSPERGER Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PENELOPE PIERCE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 40.00 0.00 X 92987 0 18446 92987 18446 0 false false false 0 41871 1905043 21658 1946914 CONSERVATION EASEMENT FEE 30900 30900 OTHER INCOME 9431 9431 PROGRAM FEES 22959 22959 STEWARDSHIP/DEFENSE FEES 63290 38460 38460 0 0 0 14790 15707 403 -917 -403 -1320 -403 -917 216601 56641 159960 159960 0 0 0 2207304 62887 197503 X 0 0 0 0 84034 38962 19370 25702 0 366776 271509 52026 43241 0 38844 26008 8043 4793 44893 32017 6434 6442 0 4077 3372 599 106 7078 58 7008 12 0 0 10359 8776 1583 248558 235119 7282 6157 24631 21137 1430 2064 0 46636 33639 4692 8305 0 42419 31437 4492 6490 11074 10874 10 190 0 0 0 0 25716 20294 2218 3204 16748 14425 950 1373 EASEMENT EXPENSE 59051 59051 Postage and Shipping 24509 19272 462 4775 MATERIALS 20160 15779 4381 CONSTITUENT SUPPORT 8021 5470 950 1601 5036 4423 723 -110 1088620 851622 118272 118726 0 643750 764597 107154 60070 5902 4419 0 0 0 6930 15106 0 139289 58262 91045 81027 1487245 2539884 0 0 0 3072 3072 2345098 3468175 44365 65962 44365 65962 X 535770 741868 1474723 1309792 290240 1350553 2300733 3402213 2345098 3468175 1118684 -17204 X false true X true false X 530802 543750 681117 959089 1883385 4598143 0 0 530802 543750 681117 959089 1883385 4598143 0 4598143 22794 32508 82260 335073 37543 510178 0 0 5108321 0.90010 0.86490 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED X X 97 44 1 true 33 161885 false 335558 1060313 10453 1841 1404483 307121 35000 -707 5856 335558 271602 48023 12504 307121 253385 40126 21909 271602 275057 12028 33700 253385 0.96000 0.04000 false false false 87840 30026 57814 25400 12800 12600 26049 15436 10613 81027 2246741 -17204 56641 39437 2207304 2207304 1145261 56641 56641 1088620 1088620 Part II, Line 5: Summarized Policy The Gallatin Valley Land Trust is accredited by the national Land Trust Accreditation Commission. GVLTs Monitoring Policy mandates annual monitoring of all conservation easement properties, including personal site visits and interviews with the landowner. It also requires permanent documentation of the monitoring visit and regular communications with landowners. GVLTs Violations Policy emphasizes tools to help prevent violations and outlines the procedure should a violation occur, including the role of staff and Board of Directors, and describes possible enforcement actions.GVLTs template conservation easement reflects our Monitoring and Violations Policies in standard language about access for monitoring (Section 7), baseline documentation reports (Section 9), Prior Notice and Approval (Section 4), and Breach and Restoration (Section 5). Part II, Line 9: Organization Reporting of conservation easements. Conservation easements accepted by Gallatin Valley Land Trust (GVLT) are not recorded as assets or revenues because the conservation easements provide the land trust with no affirmative rights other than monitoring and enforcing the easement. Part V, Line 4: Intended uses of the endowment fund. The endowment fund is a depository for special gifts to GVLT from donors who instruct their gifts are for charitable endowment purposes and are not wholly expendable by the institution on a current basis. ENDOWMENT FUNDS ARE TO BE RESPONSIBLY MANAGED TO ALLOW FOR ACCUMULATION AND INCOME FOR EXPENDITURE TO ACCOMPLISH THE ORGANIZATION'S CHARITABLE PURPOSES. THESE PURPOSES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROTECTION, PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE LANDS ADJACENT TO RIVER AND CREEK CORRIDORS, WILDLIFE HABITAT, RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, SCENIC OPEN SPACE, AGRICULTURAL LANDS AND HISTORIC SITES; TO ACQUIRE REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDING EASEMENTS AND CONSERVATION EASEMENTS; AND TO ACQUIRE, CONSERVE, HOLD, AND DISPOSE OF LAND AND INTERESTS IN LAND. Part XI, Line 2d: Other revenue amounts included in F/S but not included on form 990 FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES $56641 Part XII, Line 2d: Other expenses and losses per audited F/S FUNDRAISING EVENT EXPENSES $56641 false EOTL 168010 168010 3500 9435 17485 9348 5727 NTD 21050 21050 544 2795 2 27541 27541 25 1520 250 3842 216601 216601 3500 9460 19549 9598 12364 54471 162130 1 2500 FMV 3 3650 FMV X 3 SERVICES 15508 FMV 2 false false false Part I, Line 33, Revenues Not Reported Conservation easements accepted by Gallatin Valley Land Trust (GVLT) are not recorded as assets or revenues because the conservation easements provide the land trust with no affirmative rights other than monitoring and enforcing the easement. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process RUDD & COMPANY, PLLC DELIVERS A COPY OF THE FORM 990 AND ALL REQUIRED SCHEDULES IN TIME FOR INCLUSION IN A BOARD PACKET. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS SUBSEQUENTLY REVIEWED AND APPROVED THE 990. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts ANNUAL DISCLOSURE OF POSSIBLE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: EFFECTIVE 7/1/2009 EACH BOARD & STAFF MEMBER IS REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE ANY AND ALL INTERESTS THAT COULD GIVE RISE TO CONFLICTS. MONITORING & ENFORCING COMPLIANCE WITH POLICY: THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (ED) MAKES SURE EVERY BOARD MEMBER HAS A COPY OF THE POLICY AND IS AWARE OF THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DISCLOSE REAL OR PERCEIVED CONFLICTS. THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ENSURES THAT PROCESSES IN POLICY ARE ADHERED TO IN SITUATIONS FOR REAL OR PERCEIVED CONFLICT, AND THIS IS DOCUMENTED IN THE CONTEMPORANEOUS MINUTES OF MEETINGS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees The board executive committee perform an annual review of the Executive Director's performance. They use evaluation forms to solicit feedback from both the board and staff. SALARY SURVEYS PROVIDE COMPARABILITY DATA (NATIONAL AND REGIONAL RESOURCES), FULL BOARD VOTES ON COMPENSATION AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, TERMS ARE DOCUMENTED IN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS. OFFICERS ARE NOT COMPENSATED, AND AT THIS TIME THERE ARE NO OTHER KEY EMPLOYEES BESIDE THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available ALL GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, POLICIES, FORM 990S AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST AND ON THE ORGANIZATION'S WEBISTE: WWW.GVLT.ORG.