Standing Cedars Community Land Conservancy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391801006
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Osceola, WI, USA
- Phone
- 7152944053
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,641
- Expenses
- $103,164
- Assets
- $3,578,671
- Liabilities
- $3,882
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Wright (President)
- Dan Guenthner (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Rogers (Treasurer)
- Robert Wright (President)
- Barb Delaney (Board Member)
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
Preserve and protect field and forest and natural habitat along the lower St. Croix river.
What it reported doing in 2025
Land Management: The Land Management Committee and its many volunteers put in over 900 hours this year on land conservation efforts. Land restoration and enhancement projects include activities such as controlling invasive buckthorn, hedgerow removal, and other brush encroachment through prescribed burns and other mechanical methods on our prairie and oak savanna habitat. A forest management plan was developed to help with protection activity prioritization, and began the process of updating our land management plan. Continued working with a local farmer to ready a 35-acre field for restoration work to begin in 2026. Trails on all four of our properties with public access are maintained for year-round recreation such hiking and cross-country skiing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $78.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 24.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 34.69; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.