America's Watershed Landkeeper Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
582502310
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Smyrna, GA, USA
Phone
4043529828
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,000
Expenses
$827
Assets
$78,790
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SALLY S BETHEA (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • J RUTHERFORD SEYDEL II (CHAIRMAN)
  • SALLY S BETHEA (PRESIDENT)
  • J RUTHERFORD SEYDEL II (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

America's watershed landkeeper, inc. ("landkeeper") is a land trust organization organized to receive interests in land important to protecting america's watersheds. Initially, it has focused on the watershed of the chattahoochee river in Georgia. Since being organized in 1999, the landkeeper has received a gift of a qualified conservation easement on a tributary of the chattahoochee river known as the soque river easement. This easement protects one of the best one and half miles of the soque river contiguous to a section of the national forest. In 2001, the landkeeper received a gift of a qualified easement on 341 acres in heard county, Georgia, a site with extensive frontage along the land's scenic qualities, wildlife habitat, plants and water resources. The landkeeper works in association with its supported organization, the chattahoochee riverkeeper, inc. The landkeeper is a separate legal entity established to be a land trust.

What it reported doing in 2025

Not applicable

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 83.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 95.27; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.