Green Horizon Land Trust Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593103089
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lake Wales, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8636781237
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $212,239
- Expenses
- $102,183
- Assets
- $6,077,589
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTEN NOWAK (PRESIDENT)
- SUZANNE LINDSEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NANCY BISSETT (DIRECTOR)
- DAVID M PRICE (DIRECTOR)
- MICHAEL RAIDEN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Conservation of environmentally sensitive lands.
What it reported doing in 2025
Green horizon land trust has acquired approximately 7,930 acres of environmentally sensitive lands and placed them in preservation for the protection of the habitat and for the enjoyment of the public forever. 1,019 acres are owned and managed by green horizon, 1,184 acres are in conservation easements, and 5,727.38 acres have been acquired and transferred to cities, counties, and water management districts for the benefit of the public. Most of these lands are in polk, osceola, lake, and highlands counties of Florida. With the exception of properties that are inaccessible by roads, all owned properties are open to the public or in are in the planning stages to be opened for low impact recreation such as hiking, canoeing, bird watching, or environmental education. There were approximately 3,000 visitors to the public access properties in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 65%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 90%; rating input score 90; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 51.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 59.48; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 65% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.