Platte County Land Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431828574
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8165008786
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,821
- Expenses
- $26,314
- Assets
- $469,463
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carla Dods (president)
- Tom Jacobs (vice president)
People named in this filing
- Carla Dods (president)
- Nancy McDowell (board secretary)
- Tom Jacobs (vice president)
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 Platte Land Trust is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to conserving and protecting natural resources, land, and open spaces. Through a variety of efforts, we work to preserve scenic, recreational, agricultural, wildlife, and watershed lands. Land conservation in balance with economic prosperity results in quality communities. We assist land owners in voluntary conservation easements on their land and accept fee simple donations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supported, maintained and enhanced the Charlotte Sawyer Nature Area (CSNA), Parkville, MO with paid contractors and volunteer labor. CSNA is a 20 acre natural area located in suburban Kansas City. The Platte Land Trust owns the property and works to restore it to its native habitat state. CSNA is open to the general public for nature hikes and wildlife viewing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.9%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 63.2%; rating input score 63
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: 64.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.84; 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: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.9% of revenue deployed · 63.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.