Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Apr 1977.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
78 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
Something off? Claim to add context
Who runs it and what they're paid
27 people listed on the 990; $2.4M paid to officers and key staff.
Walter T Moore’s $395K as President is at the 81st percentile of top reported officer pay among 324 $10–100M environment 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 · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walter T Moore | $395,344 | $397,326 | $367,707 | $359,152 | $351,751 |
| Mark Stevens | $305,729 | $293,584 | $282,550 | $274,335 | $256,692 |
| Gordon Clark | $286,071 | $256,194 | $236,409 | $220,522 | $201,791 |
| Curtis Riffle | — | — | — | — | $268,895 |
| Noelle Chambers | $267,932 | $249,961 | $229,416 | $207,883 | $166,980 |
| Martha Tedesco | $253,981 | $254,724 | $237,946 | $228,732 | $213,570 |
| Diane Cordova | $233,975 | $229,672 | $218,399 | $203,186 | $194,053 |
| Justin Eliot | $216,799 | $206,925 | $198,578 | $192,257 | $181,219 |
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 Peninsula Open Space Trust executive salaries →On this list? Claim this org
Something off? Claim to add context
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 15aYes
Programs and updates
Preserves open land on the Peninsula and in the South Bay for everyone's enjoyment.
Questions for Peninsula Open Space Trust
Your first name shows with your question. Peninsula Open Space Trust answers here, for everyone.
Know this org? Add your story
Land Acquisition & Transfer
In fiscal year 2024, post completed and assisted a total of 6 transactions that protected 1,141 acres while advancing several other longer-term acquisitions and TRANSFERS.LAND transactions assisted the habitat agency and santa clara county parks in protecting 735 acres at the base of mount madonna in the southern santa cruz mountains.
Land Management
Post currently holds 15,216 acres in fee ownership and holds conservation easements and deed restrictions on 14,648 acres. The organization has an established stewardship program for the lands it owns that includes resource conservation planning and management, along with active uses of land for conservation grazing and agriculture…
Community Outreach and Education
To further our community growth and engagement efforts, in fiscal year 2024, the organization continued our content marketing and engagement programs which aim to grow and diversify our community of supporters and engage prospective donors.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2024 990, line by line.
Download 990
| Line | Start FY24 | End FY24 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $1.4M | $1.6M |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $153.9M | $185.8M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $6.8M | $6.5M |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $337.0M | $339.3M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $19.3M | $11.1M |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $317.7M | $328.2M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants to domestic organizationsLn 1 | $10.2M | $10.2M | ||
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $1.9M | $798K | $572K | $556K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $7.0M | $4.1M | $1.3M | $1.6M |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $508K | $279K | $114K | $115K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $822K | $479K | $154K | $189K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $487K | $283K | $91K | $113K |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $871K | $758K | $113K | |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $58K | $58K | ||
| Lobbying feesLn 11d | $455K | $455K | ||
| Professional fundraising feesLn 11e | $239K | $239K | ||
| Investment management feesLn 11f | $305K | $305K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $3.1M | $2.6M | $271K | $179K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $694K | $659K | $35K | |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $355K | $111K | $26K | $218K |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $528K | $296K | $78K | $154K |
| TravelLn 17 | $38K | $26K | $6K | $6K |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $273K | $145K | $78K | $50K |
| InterestLn 20 | $314K | $13K | $301K | |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $275K | $162K | $50K | $63K |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $246K | $178K | $68K | |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $4.9M | $4.6M | $50K | $200K |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $201K | $63K | $42K | $97K |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $33.9M | $26.3M | $3.7M | $3.8M |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest | $62.3M | $43.4M | $18.8M | $359.3M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 Viewing | $30.3M | $33.9M | −$3.6M | $328.2M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $24.8M | $29.0M | −$4.3M | $317.7M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $30.2M | $19.3M | $10.9M | $311.7M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $38.7M | $23.3M | $15.4M | $329.1M | 990 PDF |
More to add? Claim this org
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2024 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $30,308,636 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 16 of 16 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $30,308,636 across 9 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $33,859,528 across 22 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $339,333,871 assets, 18 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $328,194,673 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
Similar organizations you could support · Compare with another nonprofit
Names, privacy, and removal requests More
The names, titles, and compensation shown on this page are reproduced from IRS Form 990 filings, which are public records.
Philanthropy.org does not alter the content of those filings. All information appears exactly as reported by the filing organization for the tax year shown.
We publish only information contained in the public IRS filing — and less than the filing contains. Our profile pages do not display street addresses, telephone numbers, personal email addresses, or other personal contact information, even where the filing includes them.
Many people share the same name. A name shown on this page reflects only what one organization reported in one IRS filing for one tax year. It should not be interpreted as identifying any other individual with the same or a similar name.
If you are no longer affiliated with the organization, your name will generally stop appearing in future IRS filings once the organization no longer reports you. Pages for tax years in which you were reported remain published because those filings remain part of the public record.
Philanthropy.org does not alter or remove IRS filing records. Removing a page from this website would not remove the underlying IRS filing, which remains publicly available from the IRS and other publishers of the same information.
If you believe the IRS filing itself is inaccurate, corrections must be made by the filing organization or the IRS directly.
Your org? Add context
Made it to the end? Claim this org