Orient Land Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841582988
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Villa Grove, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7192565212
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- General Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,865,227
- Expenses
- $1,645,890
- Assets
- $4,899,441
- Liabilities
- $81,755
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CRYSTAL ENGLAND (EXECUTIVE DI): $77,755 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For the education, enjoyment, and well-being of current and future generations, orient land trust: --promotes a positive clothing-optional experience at all properties including valley view hot springs, orient mine, and everson ranch; --preserves the viewshed, including land acquisition; --protects natural, wild, agricultural, and historic resources in the northern san luis valley.
What it reported doing in 2025
Visitor services: in 2025, orient land trust provided unique recreational opportunities for tens of thousands of day and overnight visitors, including lodging and camping services. Visitors enjoyed many attributes of the properties including soaking in hot springs, naturist clothing optional opportunities, hiking, viewing wildlife, geology and bat conservation. The hot springs property is a wonderful model for off-grid hydroelectric power. Volunteer camp hosts help visitors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.98; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.