Kansas Association of Conservation Districts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300661669
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Hays, KS, USA
- Phone
- 7856501330
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,642,167
- Expenses
- $2,761,526
- Assets
- $206,555
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEVIN LAW (PRESIDENT)
- ALLEN ROTH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAN MEYERHOFF (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DAN MEYERHOFF (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $106,560 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of Kansas
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual convention draws approximately 300 farmers, ranchers, and other conservationists who receive current conservation program information, education about best practices, technical support, and opportunities for networking
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -4.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.8% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 6 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $289K reported
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
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Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.