Conservation Florida Inc.

“The conservation trust for florida is wholly committed to good stewardship, which necessarily includes effective and quick resolution of violations or non-compliance with conservation easement terms. Ctf approaches easement violations and non-compliance by comprehensively analyzing all aspects of the easement and taking into consideration other facts and circumstances.”

“The organization received all of its easements via donation. The organization does not report donated easements as revenues or as assets. The footnotes to the organization's financial statements include the following related to conservation easements: "property owners grant to the corporation conservation easements that restrict the owner's use of the land in perpetuity. Some allow the corporation to conduct research and studies on the properties. At december 31, 2016 the corporation held easements on six properties for a total of 730 acres. Since the corporation does not receive any rights to the property, the corporation does not report a value."”

“Endowment funds are to be invested in perpetuity, the income from which is to be used to monitor and enforce conservation easements. In the remote instance of a legal challenge to a conservation easement that is not covered by insurance, principle of the endowment may be used to defend the easement.”

“The corporation is exempt from income taxes according to the provisions of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and has not earned any unrelated business taxable income. Therefore, the corporation has no provision for federal income taxes. The corporation holds no uncertain tax positions and, therefore, has no policy for evaluating them.”