DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC

2025 · Form 990 · revenue $5.2M · expenses $3.0M · assets $35.3M

EIN

14-1667526

Address

PO BOX 138, MILLBROOK, NY 12545-0138

Website

DUTCHESSLAND.ORG

NTEE code

C340

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

February 1986 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

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Mission

DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY (DLC) IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THE SCENIC, AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES OF DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK, AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. DLC, AS A PRIVATE NON-PROFIT LAND CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION, CARRIES OUT ITS MISSION PRIMARILY BY OBTAINING CONSERVATION EASEMENTS ON PRIVATELY HELD LAND AND MONITORING THESE EASEMENTS IN PERPETUITY. CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, ACQUIRED THROUGH DONATION OR PURCHASE, ARE LEGAL AGREEMENTS LIMITING FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN ORDER TO PROTECT LAND FOR CONSERVATION PURPOSES. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE AND EDUCATION TO LANDOWNERS, MUNICIPALITIES, AND THE PUBLIC, TO ENCOURAGE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND PLANNING, AND ON MATTERS OF LAND CONSERVATION AND STEWARDSHIP. IN 2009 THE ORGANIZATION WAS AWARDED ACCREDITATION STATUS BY THE LAND TRUST ACCREDITATION COMMISSION, AN INDEPENDENT PROGRAM OF THE LAND TRUST ALLIANCE. IN 2014, 2020, AND 2025 THE ORGANIZATION RECEIVED ITS FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD ACCREDITATION RENEWALS.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

1 person paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

50 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• MILLBROOK HUNT INC Millbrook, NY · 3 people in common (Christopher L Mann, Oakleigh Thorne, Olivia Van Melle Kamp)
• CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC Millbrook, NY · 2 people in common (Eric W Roberts, Kathleen C Weathers)
• GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW YORK INC New York, NY · 2 people in common (Fernanda M Kellogg, Patricia Farman-Farmaian)
• MASHOMACK FISH & GAME PRESERVE CLUB INC Pine Plains, NY · 2 people in common (Nick Bienstock, Thomas Flexner)
• MILLBROOK GOLF AND TENNIS CLUB INC Millbrook, NY · 2 people in common (Thomas L Newberry, Timothy Mayhew)
• HUDSON RIVER FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INC New York, NY · 1 person in common (Kathleen C Weathers)
• MASHOMACK POLO INC Millbrook, NY · 1 person in common (Oakleigh Thorne)
• MASHOMACK COMMUNITY FUND INC New York, NY · 1 person in common (Thomas Flexner)

Funders of this organization

92 grantors reported grants to this organization, $8,661,076 in all, tax years 2010 to 2025; the 25 largest shown (all 92). Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.