Kumeyaay Diegueno Land Conservancy (KDLC)

What happened

The Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy (KDLC) is a land trust based in El Cajon, California, at 2 Kwaaypaay Court. Its story page says the Kumeyaay Diegueño Unity Bands established it in 2005, with support from nine of the twelve Kumeyaay bands in the United States. ProPublica lists it under EIN 26-4219808. Its board page lists Chairwoman Emily Burgueno (Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel) and members and alternates from the Sycuan, La Posta, Campo, Manzanita, Ewiiaapaayp, Viejas, Jamul and other bands.

KDLC says it gained 501(c)(3) status in July 2010, under the guidance of a mentor, the Native American Land Conservancy. ProPublica shows tax exemption issued in September 2023, so the two dates differ. KDLC says that since gaining nonprofit status it has acquired and protected sacred lands, and that it owns and manages three properties in San Diego County, including the Mosler Property in Julian and Sloan Canyon in the Dehesa Valley.

On Sloan Canyon, KDLC says it bought the property from the Sycuan Band in 2013 with funding from the Wildlife Conservation Board. It describes the parcel as 608 acres next to the Sycuan reservation, to be managed as permanently conserved open space. KDLC says grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a California program support a biological study, a youth educational program and a study of native plants.

KDLC also participates in meetings about coastal Marine Protected Areas.

Good to know. Dates differ: the conservancy says it became a tax-exempt nonprofit in July 2010, while IRS records show September 2023. Acreage and funding figures are its own.

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