The Land Conservancy of Mchenry County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363727476
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Woodstock, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8153379502
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,611,452
- Expenses
- $955,544
- Assets
- $8,398,637
- Liabilities
- $203,132
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN LAVIN (PRESIDENT)
- RANDY SCHIETZELT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LISA HADERLEIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA HADERLEIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $85,844 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To work with stakeholders to preserve open, natural and agricultural land resources in mchenry county, Illinois.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through the preservation of land, the land conservancy of mchenry county, inc. Helps preserve the natural and agricultural heritage of the county, offers opportunities for people to observe and study nature, and provides habitat for native plants and animals. The mission is accomplished primarily by accepting donated conservation easements, a strategy by which the private property owners retain ownership of their land, but donate the development rights to the organization. The organization has received 98 donated conservation easements preserving 2,343 acres of land since it began operations. The organization also owns 980.79 acres of land.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.6%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.7%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.79; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.6% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $747K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.