FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2023

The financial information provided here is derived from our audited financial statements. For additional detail, review our complete audited financial statements and 990s using the links below. The Wildlands Conservancy is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. Tax Identification No. 33-0676450.

Grant Income & Contract Revenue is typically restricted to buying land and funding public access and conservation projects. Grant funds restricted to the purchase of land pass through the organization and are not reflected as an operating expense. The operating expenses associated with buying land (Conservation Land Acquisition) reflect all of the operating activities related to acquisition including due diligence.

Our preserves provide the venues for both our free student outdoor education field trips as well as our free public interpretive programming. In prior years, the cost to maintain outdoor education venues was reflected in Preserve Management, Stewardship & Restoration. These expenses are now reflected in Outdoor Education to more clearly show how the organization uses its resources to support various elements of our mission.

The Total Revenue chart does not include realized and unrealized gains and losses from investments.

LAND CONSERVATION

In the fiscal year, work continued on strategic, multi-year acquisition projects. These projects added nearly 17,000 acres to The Wildlands Conservancy’s protected lands in the following fiscal year (2023-24), including two new locations at Rana Creek on California’s Central Coast and Cottonwood Wash inside Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah.

PRESERVE MANAGEMENT, STEWARDSHIP & RESTORATION

At the end of the 2022-2023 fiscal year, The Wildlands Conservancy's preserve system included nearly 200,000 acres across 23 preserves and two states. Every day, our team of managers and rangers not only protect and steward these landscapes, but also work to rewild biodiversity and restore healthy ecosystems, all while welcoming the public for passive recreation and nature appreciation.

OUTDOOR EDUCATION

The Wildlands Conservancy is California's leader in providing free outdoor education programs to underserved youth through our hands-on, curriculum-based field trips. Nearly 12,000 students participated in these field trip programs in the fiscal year, up nearly 5,000 students over the previous year as the program continues to recover from the pandemic. Public programming continued to grow during the year, as our team of outdoor educators developed new and exciting programs to connect more people with nature. Tens of thousands of people of all ages and from all backgrounds participated in an educational opportunity at a Wildlands preserve.