2025-04-23T08:52:32-05:00 2024-12-31 271494012 Hinkle & Company PC 5028 E 101st Street Tulsa OK 74137 990 2024-01-01 300137741 Land Legacy Inc LAND 9185872190 822 E 6th St Tulsa OK 74120 Michael Patton Executive Director 9185872190 2025-04-23 1 0 James D Hinkle P00532558 9184923388 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Michael Patton 822 E 6th St Tulsa OK 74120 13450816 0 X landlegacy.info X 2003 OK Enhance the quality of life in urban and rural communities 6 6 3 6 0 0 14094599 13449849 0 0 904 967 0 0 14095503 13450816 0 0 0 0 131018 133376 0 0 0 88078 1643401 219096 1776777 13876407 11674039 95342445 107015938 528681 528763 94813764 106487175 X To enhance the quality of life in urban and rural communities by working constructively with landowners to protect natural and cultural resources and to create outdoor recreation, eduction and economic opportunities 0 0 1709172 The largest program services provided by Land Legacy are for our military partners at Fort Sill Army Base and Tinker Air Force Base. Urban encroachment along the perimeters of military installations is an increasingly common concern for installation operations and training activities. Fort Sill and Tinker are no exceptions to this concern as new residential development along the bases' fence lines are becoming more and more common. To prevent this situation from compromising Fort Sill's future operation, the U.S. Army implemented the Army Compatible Use Buffer (ACUB) Program. This program is designed to create an essential buffer zone surrounding Fort Sill and provide for important conservation and outdoor recreation benefits. One of the main benefits for Fort Sill was noise mitigation. The initiative developed by Land Legacy for Tinker to create an essential buffer zone surrounding Tinker was similar in structure with the primary rationale being to create a safety zone for potential plane crashes. Roughly 20,000 acres of open lands around Fort Sill have been identified for protection through the purchase of conservation easements. The area around Tinker is more developed, but over 1,000 acres adjoining the base have still been identified and prioritized for potential buffers through conservation easements. Easements restrict subdivision and development of properties while allowing continued private ownership, agricultural uses, ranching, utility infrastructure, non-intensive industrial uses and passive outdoor low-intensity recreation. There are also significant tax incentives available to landowners who wish to donate all or a portion of the conservation easement value. Land Legacy makes regular trips to the military bases to meet with base personnel, meet with prospective landowners, and perform annual monitoring of completed easements. The second largest program services area of Land Legacy is in drinking water protection for the City of Tulsa water and wastewater group. The Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority (TMUA), in an effort to preserve water quality and to preserve working agricultural lands, developed the Eucha-Spavinaw Watershed Protection Initiative. The Eucha-Spavinaw watershed provides drinking water for much of northeastern Oklahoma. The watershed also provides habitat for numerous endangered and threatened species unique to the region. This effort consists of a long-term land conservation program within the boundaries of the watershed in both Oklahoma and Arkansas to acquire, through purchase or donation, permanent conservation easements. As of the end of 2015, Land Legacy has worked diligently with landowners in the area to have nearly 5,000 acres in Oklahoma and Arkansas that is protected in perpetuity through conservation easements. In addition to Land Legacy's work, there is an additional 30,000 acres under protection from various other agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife, State of Oklahoma, and City of Tulsa. The TMUA Board has many initiatives to protect Tulsa's drinking water. The conservation easements require continual conversations with city staff, state and federal officials, and landowners. In addition, Land Legacy has been doing outreach work partnering with Delaware County Conservation Commissioners by working to provide information about conservation easements through meetings of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. The third area of program services provided by Land Legacy deals with willing landowners looking to conserve their land and take advantage of the tremendous tax credits offered. The Conservation Easement Incentive Act is considered by many to be the most important conservation legislation in the last 20 years. This Act, part of the American Gives More Act, encourages landowners to place conservation easements on their land to protect important natural, scenic, and historic resources. Lands placed into conservation easements continue to be farmed, grazed, hunted, or used for outdoor recreation and wildlife conservation. These lands also remain on county tax rolls, strengthening local economies donating a voluntary conservation easement. 1709172 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 OK X Janet Rhodes 9185872190 822 E 6th Street 200 Tulsa OK 74120 Laura Hill Board Chair 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Richard Carson Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jana Black Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Steve Bender Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Cheryl Cheadle Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Holly Berry Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Patton Executive Director 40.00 X 86725 0 0 86725 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13449849 13242000 13449849 967 967 13450816 0 0 967 86725 54637 32088 36094 22739 13355 751 473 278 9806 6178 3628 2072 1305 767 7000 4410 2590 5357 5357 1897 1195 702 6105 3846 2259 18427 11609 6818 3449 2173 1276 1234 777 457 6245 3934 2311 Easement Conveyances 1588703 1588703 2912 1836 1076 1776777 1709172 67605 0 535370 627318 70875 1026 1044 106368379 7944 94708372 106360435 17042 16453 9760 10688 95342445 107015938 7838 7920 520843 520843 528681 528763 X 16022164 16110623 78791600 90376552 94813764 106487175 95342445 107015938 11674039 -628 0 X 0 1 X 0 0 X 636314 1343653 126668 219599 392849 2719083 636314 1343653 126668 219599 392849 2719083 2719083 2297 471 581 904 967 5220 2724303 0.99810 0.61250 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 1 X 100 20263.00 6 1 1 250.00 68345 1 26802 339 27141 25132 1670 26802 28723 -3591 25132 42299 -393 13183 28723 40003 2296 42299 0.67000 0.33000 0 0 106358964 106358964 820 745 75 8595 7199 1396 106360435 13450188 -628 -628 13450816 0 13450816 1776777 0 1776777 0 1776777 Part II, Line 5: Land Legacy monitors its easement properties regularly, at least annually, in a manner appropriate to the size and restrictions of each property, and keeps documentation (such as reports, updated photographs and maps) of each monitoring activity. Should any violations of a conservation easement, either intentional or inadvertent, be identified, Land Legacy staff and/or volunteers will contact the respective landowner to request voluntary measures to achieve full compliance. Should the landowner be unable or unwilling to take necessary steps for compliance, staff/volunteers shall report the situation to the Board of Directors for direction on further steps of action. In the event of violations which are not voluntarily corrected by the respective landowner, Land Legacy will take appropriate legal action to ensure compliance with the terms of the conservation easement. Part II, Line 9: Easements held for long-term conservation are stated at their appraised value, which is determined at the time of acquisition or donation X 4 13242000 Appraised Value 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b Line 8 Explanation - The Organization does not have a committee that can act on behalf of the governing board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b Line 11b Explanation - Form 990 will be presented to the governing board at board meeting at which time it will be reviewed and approved or disapproved. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The board regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance with conflict of interest policy at the board meeting Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 All documents are made available upon request