Commonweal Conservancy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200153356
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5056903094
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,035,049
- Expenses
- $192,509
- Assets
- $2,738,541
- Liabilities
- $18,670
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TED O HARRISON (PRESIDENT)
- EDISON BUCHANAN (CHAIR/VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TED O HARRISON (PRESIDENT): $71,685 total reported compensation
- KATHRYNN L DRAHN (ASSISTANT SECRETARY): $6,105 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Commonweal conservancy is a nonprofit conservation-based community development organization dedicated to forging deep and sustaining relationships among people, land, and the built environment. In our commitment to integrating the goals of environmental protection and community building, we acquire signature landscapes that define a community's sense of place and spearhead the planning, entitlement and development processes associated with inclusive and engaging place-making. Our practice of integrative conservation development aims to provide for public needs such as affordable housing, educational opportunities, and economic developmentas well as the need for substantial open space that's protected, accessible, and deeply cared for.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conservation and recreation planning: with support from the santa fe fat tire society, core crew and other enthusiasts of the galisteo basin preserve, commonweal developed 1.50 miles of new hiking, cycling and equestrian trails for public use. Concurrently, staff and volunteers completed a number of trail maintenance projects that improved the safety and navigibility of trail segments effected by erosion and over-use. More than 750 hours of volunteer time were devoted to trail building, maintenance and repairs in 2024/25.each year, the preserve trail system is actively used by more than 30,000 of visitors from northern New Mexico and across the nation. The preserve maintains the largest network of nonprofit-owned publicly accessible trails in the american southwest.concurrently with its recreational development efforts, the organization engaged approximately 30 volunteers to remove 20+ miles of barbed wire from the preserve open spaces. The fence removal initiative serves to protect wildlife from injury and facilitate the flow of mammals through the grassland and upland areas of the preserve. More than 130 hours of volunteer time were devoted to habitat improvement initiatives at the preserve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.3%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $44.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 81.4%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.23; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.3% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.