Chiricahua Land Conservancy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872317440
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Portal, AZ, USA
Phone
5756444157
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Land Resources Conservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,450
Expenses
$20,314
Assets
$320,598
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAUL HIRT (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
  • DIANA HADLEY (VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIE TOWNE (DIRECTOR)
  • MARK APEL (DIRECTOR)
  • JOHN BARRETT (DIRECTOR)

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

The mission of the chiricahua land conservancy clc is to conserve healthy diverse ecosystems within the upper san simon valley and surrounding mountains for the benefit of current and future generations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community outreach and education: our mission is to work with private landowners who want to conserve their lands long-term to provide open space, soil and water protection, and wildlife habitat. We also cooperate with other nonprofits, like the friends of cave creek canyon (foccc), to provide environmental education opportunities. In 2025, we completed a web re-design, updated and re-printed our postcard flyer, produced a new conservation easement brochure, staffed tables at a heritage days event in rodeo and the foccc garden party in portal, co-sponsored several educational events on our new preserve, and met with dozens of landowners to discuss how we can help them meet their conservation goals for their properties.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 25.4%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77

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: 66.9%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.78; rating input score 95; 95th 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: -118.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 25.4% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.