Alliance Land Trust
Receive a tax deduction for your donation of land
What is the Alliance Land Trust?
The Alliance Land Trust (ALT) enables landowners in South Jersey to donate their qualifying land and receive a tax deduction while supporting a local charity.
Our focus began with, but is not limited to, legacy farms once part of the Alliance Colony and other Jewish agricultural societies in the greater area of Vineland, NJ.
Selling land can be a daunting task, often resulting in high capital gains taxes and other unexpected fees.
Alliance Community Reboot (ACRe) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. By donating your land to ACRe, we can save you the hassle of finding the right buyer, negotiate the best price and work with partners to ensure qualifying properties are conserved for nature and preserved as farmland.
For more information contact us at ALT@acreboot.org
Your contribution to our historic community
Funds raised from the sale of real estate property through the Alliance Land Trust will support the local community of Alliance, including educational programming and preservation of the historic Alliance Synagogue.
Some of our ongoing projects that will benefit from your charitable contribution include our Alliance Historic Model Farm and Alliance Mural, as well as our holiday celebrations and educational lecture series.
For more information contact us at ALT@acreboot.org
Case Study
In 2021 we at ACRe received a generous donation of real estate property in Pittsgrove, NJ from a family with ties to and fondness for the Alliance Colony. The 26 acre parcel of mostly wooded wetland on the border of Vineland and Pittsgrove qualified as conservation land and is largely unbuildable.
Through the following two years, we worked with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and their Green Acres program to evaluate the property, assess its value and eventually negotiate and broker the sale of the property to the State of New Jersey.
As a result of our diligence and research, the value we achieved for the property exceeds the appraisal our generous donor received years earlier. The donor's family will retroactively benefit from this increased final sale price as an even greater charitable tax deduction than they expected, and the land will be protected as part of the New Jersey land conservation initiative.
History of the Alliance Land Trust
The original Alliance Land Trust (ALT) was formed in 1883 to apportion farmland and manage mortgage payments for the Russian Jewish settlers of the Alliance Colony, the first successful Jewish agricultural society established in America. Funded by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch and succeeding the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society (HEAS), ALT was run by a team of distinguished trustees including Henry S. Henry, Isaac Eppinger, Leopold Gershel, M. Mendel, Leonard Lewisohn, and Frederick de Sola Mendes, for whom many streets in rural Alliance NJ are named.
ALT managed titleholding, mortgage payments and property sales for the Alliance Colony through the 1970s with some sons of those trustees carrying on the tradition of their patron fathers, on behalf of their counterparts, the colony descendants.
After all the funds and assets originally held by HEAS and ALT were liquidated and expended, its purpose had been fulfilled and the Alliance Land Trust finally dissolved by the early 1970s.
Map of a cluster of land parcels apportioned to the original settlers of the Alliance Colony.
Intro to a mortgage document between the Alliance Land Trust and community leader Moses Bayuk, May 18, 1888.
For more information contact us at ALT@acreboot.org