The Athens Conservancy is a nonprofit organization of a type known as a land trust. It is organized and exists to work for protection of open-space lands in Athens County, Ohio, and nearby areas, including acquisition of land or specific rights where appropriate and including educational and planning activities.

The Athens Conservancy is organized exclusively for and shall restrict itself to activities that qualify as nonprofit purposes as defined by and conforming to Section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and shall distribute proceeds only to other nonprofit organizations that qualify under this section of the Code.

Specific program activities of the Athens Conservancy may include, but are not limited to:

1. Solicitation of donations of money, time, development rights, logging rights, other property rights, property, and other things from the public to further the purposes of the Athens Conservancy;
2. Direct or indirect acquisition of property, development rights, logging rights, or other property rights for the purposes of land preservation;
3. Transfer of property or property rights to governmental or other nonprofit agencies for management;
4. Planning for the preservation of land areas;
5. Engaging in educational and informational activities about land preservation