Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Jul 2016.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
84 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
13 people listed on the 990; $108K paid to officers and key staff.
Ilyssa Manspeizer’s $108K as CEO is at the 42nd percentile of top reported officer pay among 3869 $1–10M human services nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 1 named individual · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ilyssa Manspeizer | $108,414 | $105,062 | $102,025 | $97,383 | $92,882 | $94,881 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Pittsburgh Conservation Corps executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Restore and maintain land and green assets with skilled environmental management crews.
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Working closely with a coalition of public and private agencies as wellas a network of greenspace and workforce development experts, landforce recruits, trains, educates, employs and supports people who have been systemically disadvantaged in and around pittsburgh, pa, including those who are formerly incarcerated, have mental health…
In 2025 landforce opened its responsible wood production facility where we will be processing fallen timber into kiln dried lumber, biochar, and other wood products. By the end of 2025 we had collected 75 logs, totaling approximately nearly 17,000 in potential board feet of lumber.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
Federal money
Plus 2 smaller programs.
The auditor reported no findings.
By the numbers
The FY2025 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY25 | End FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $273K | $814K |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $162K | $895K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $1.2M | $2.0M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $531K | $764K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $706K | $1.3M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $136K | $54K | $41K | $41K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $955K | $844K | $47K | $64K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $162K | $146K | $11K | $5K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $90K | $76K | $6K | $8K |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $1K | $1K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $32K | $24K | $4K | $4K |
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $93K | $50K | $25K | $17K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $1K | $116 | $961 | |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $28K | $18K | $5K | $4K |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $137K | $125K | $7K | $5K |
| TravelLn 17 | $6K | $4K | $2K | $229 |
| InterestLn 20 | $6K | $4K | $847 | $850 |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $50K | $44K | $3K | $3K |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $32K | $29K | $2K | $430 |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $247K | $247K | $324 | $139 |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $10K | $8K | $865 | $643 |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $2.0M | $1.7M | $156K | $155K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Jul 1, 2026 | $2.5M | $2.0M | $559K | $1.3M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024Filed with the IRS Jul 9, 2025 | $2.2M | $1.7M | $505K | $706K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Jul 11, 2024 | $762K | $1.2M | −$470K | $201K | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Jul 10, 2023 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $219K | $671K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Sep 23, 2022 | $857K | $778K | $79K | $452K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Jul 9, 2021 | $920K | $755K | $165K | $373K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2025 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $2,544,965 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 12 of 12 board members independent, 1 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $2,544,965 across 9 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $1,985,923 across 16 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $2,028,410 assets, 15 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $1,264,859 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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