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Name:	National Park Trust
Address:	401 East Jefferson Street, Suite 102
	Rockville, MD 20850
Phone:	301-279-7275
Web Address:	www.parktrust.org

National Park Trust (NPT) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

NPT’s land conservation programs aim to preserve, protect and enhance the nation's system of parks at the local, state and national level through the identification of key land acquisition needs and opportunities. NPT reports that it has worked on over 200 land conservation projects and currently has land conservation projects in more than 20 states and U.S. territories. The organization has public education programs to educate and raise the profile of local, state and national parks and their needs with the public, park agencies and congressional delegates. Furthermore, NPT’s public education mission is to provide recreational and educational parkland opportunities for current and future generations. In 2008, NPT launched the Youth to Parks program, an environmental education program focused on connecting children to the outdoors and nature. This grassroots program features the organization’s newly established school pilot program “Where’s Buddy Bison Been?” The program encourages children and their families to get outside, enjoy a park and then share their American park experience. The program is currently being piloted in more than 20 education centers across the country where educators use Buddy Bison (a fuzzy, brown plush toy) and toolkits created by NPT to enhance their science, history, geography, writing, reading and community service programs. Another aspect of the Where’s Buddy Bison Been? program is that it enables students of limited resources to have their first American park experience. Through the Buddy Bison program, students are introduced to the natural environment, and are also exposed to academic and professional opportunities.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010, NPT's program expenses were:

Land conservation	292,994
Public education	197,040
Membership	49,470
Total Program Expenses:	$539,504

Chief Executive : Grace Lee, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$102,488

Chair of the Board: F. William Brownell
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Attorney, Hunton & Williams

Board Size: 18

Paid Staff Size: 5

*July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, grant proposals, Internet appeals, planned giving, and membership appeals.

Fund raising costs were 11% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $571,497, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

NPT incurred joint costs of $37,605 for informational materials and activities that included fund raising materials. Of those costs, $30,309 was allocated to program expenses and $7,295 was allocated to fund raising expenses.

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on NPT's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010.

Source of Funds
Contributions	571,497
Realized and unrealized gains	3,509
Investment income	3,078
Total Income	$578,084

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 81%  Fund Raising: 10%  Administrative: 9%

Total income				$578,084
	Program expenses			$539,504
	Fund raising expenses			64,233
	Administrative expenses			57,335
Total expenses				$661,072
Expenses in Excess of Income				(82,988)
Beginning net assets				3,332,486
Ending net assets				3,249,498
Total liabilities				92,051
Total assets				$3,341,549