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American Farmland Trust

Saves the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
154
Grants FY2024still arriving
37
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Food & Nutrition$3.8MEnvironment$1.8MCommunity Improvement$148kAnimals$122kEducation$103kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$48kHealth$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 154 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 154 grants below total $2,975,447 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,576,867 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,601,420 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $466k
  • $10k–50k84 grants · $1.8M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $702k
$10,000
Median grant
37
States reached
$101M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DRY FARMING INSTITUTE$157,760
THE FRESHWATER TRUST$121,600
BLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC$119,493
CCOF FOUNDATION$100,000
GROWSMART MAINE$80,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND$65,456
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$57,601
WASHINGTON STATE DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS$47,500
ALASKA FARMLAND TRUST CORPORATION$35,000
TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST$35,000
MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY$35,000
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY$35,000
PINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST$35,000
CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST$34,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$33,836
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND: $65k → 16%TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $35k → 7%SAGEBRUSH STEPPE LAND TRUST: $25k → 14%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $31k → 11%SONOMA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION & OPEN SPACE DISTRICT: $25k → 9%EAST STANISLAUS RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT (ESRCD): $52k → 15%HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $25k → 9%CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: $96k → 9%PACE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%LIVINGSTON COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $47k → 11%COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $32k → 11%CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 13%GENESEE LAND TRUST INC: $25k → 14%CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: $119k → 16%GROWNYC: $25k → 17%PINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST: $35k → 12%ALACHUA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: $25k → 19%WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK: $25k → 17%GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $110k → 7%KENT COUNTY: $110k → 11%THE FRESHWATER TRUST: $122k → 12%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 18%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $34k → 8%CATAWBA LANDS CONSERVANCY: $31k → 10%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $25k → 12%STATE OF RHODE ISLAND: $25k → 14%ATHENS LAND TRUST: $31k → 27%COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $25k → 7%MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY: $35k → 11%ALASKA FARMLAND TRUST CORPORATION: $35k → 10%RAPP CENTER FOR EDUCATION: $40k → 10%EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $31k → 10%REGROW AGRICULTURE INC: $48k → 9%PWM FARM PROPERTIES INC: $28k → 9%SPRINGHILL FAMILY FARM LLC: $28k → 16%GROWSMART MAINE: $80k → 12%CCOF FOUNDATION: $155k → 13%EAST STAINSLAUS RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $44k → 15%SIERRA RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $30k → 19%CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: $66k → 9%COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVATION: $30k → 11%WYOMING COUTY SWCD: $31k → 12%CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: $53k → 13%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $31k → 7%CCOF FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%EAST STANISLAUS RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT (ESRCD): $32k → 15%CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST: $34k → 11%FARMSTART LLP: $31k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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ID
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IL
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MI
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OR
WY
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OH
PA
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RI
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CO
NE
KY
VA
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DE
NM
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NC
SC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 63 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 107 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
71

Total granted

$3.4M
$907k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +93%
  • COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $126k · revenue +56%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue +23%
  • RA
    REGROW AGRICULTURE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $48k
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2022 · $48k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment
3
Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment
4
Palouse Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.

Environment
5
Franklin Land Trust Inc

The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.

Environment
6
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
7
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
8
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment
9
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
10
Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.

Environment
11
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County

Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…

Environment
12
Placer Land Trust

Placer Land Trust works with willing landowners and conservation partners to permanently protect and care for natural and agricultural lands in Placer County for current and future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methow Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Monte Azul Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Women & Girls Leadership De…Military Veterans SupportCommunity Food PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%2/238
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,327

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 241 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/125
Grantees still filing
67/125
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK — $162,013 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N…CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC — $155,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INCCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOC IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK — $145,395 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOC IN THE STATE OF NEW YOR…KENT COUNTY — $135,000 · OtherEAST STANISLOUS RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $128,356 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (MERCED) — $97,282 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS — $90,000 · Other+103 more — $1,773,037 · Other+103 moreGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $135,000 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSE…COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $126,300 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INCCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $97,500 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INCGROWSMART MAINE — $80,000 · EnvironmentAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC — $66,904 · Environment+49 more — $1,257,212 · Environment+49 moreTHE DRY FARMING INSTITUTE — $185,150 · Food & NutritionTHE DRY FAR…CCOF FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Food & NutritionCCOF FOUNDA…WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK — $41,666 · Food & NutritionWOMEN FOOD …NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION MA CHAPTER INC — $38,011 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST O…Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — $34,000 · Food & NutritionConnecticut…COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $31,000 · Food & NutritionFEAST DOWN EAST INC — $20,500 · Food & NutritionKENTUCKY BLACK FARMERS ASSOCIATION CORP — $20,500 · Food & Nutrition+11 more — $133,234 · Food & Nutrition+11 moreBLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC — $184,492 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $65,456 · Community ImprovementHUDSON VALLEY AGRI-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP — $60,750 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $52,500 · Community ImprovementASIAN BUSINESS INSTITUTE & RESOURCE CENTER — $25,656 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT — $20,500 · Community ImprovementPOTLIKKER CAPITAL — $20,500 · Community ImprovementRAPPU INC — $59,600 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationCornell University — $36,014 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $15,448 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $11,612 · EducationBUFFALO GO GREEN INC — $8,584 · EducationMICHIGAN INTEGRATED FOOD AND FARMING SYSTEMS INC — $7,500 · EducationTHE FRESHWATER TRUST — $121,600 · AnimalsKHUBA INTERNATIONAL — $56,500 · Youth DevelopmentMonte Azul Inc — $20,500 · Youth Development
Other$2,686,083Environment$1,762,916Food & Nutrition$604,061Community Improvement$429,854Education$183,758Animals$121,600Youth Development$77,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE DRY FARMING INSTITUTE — $185,150 over 2y, 90% of budgetBLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC — $184,492 over 3y, 21% of budgetCALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC — $155,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $135,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $126,300 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRESHWATER TRUST — $121,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCCOF FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $97,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGROWSMART MAINE — $80,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $72,354 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC — $66,904 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $65,456 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY AGRI-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP — $60,750 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetRAPPU INC — $59,600 over 2y, 16% of budgetKHUBA INTERNATIONAL — $56,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $52,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAcadia Center — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGenesee Land Trust Inc — $48,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $44,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK — $41,666 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetAlaska Farmland Trust Corporation — $41,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $41,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $41,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST — $41,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC — $41,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGroundswell Center for Local Food and Farming Inc — $39,465 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION MA CHAPTER INC — $38,011 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetATHENS LAND TRUST INC — $37,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy — $37,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCornell University — $36,014 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc — $34,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTECUMSEH LAND PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $32,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $31,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTexas Land Conservancy — $31,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST — $31,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $31,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOLO LAND TRUST — $31,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $31,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS — $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARATOGA PLAN INC — $29,280 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPCC FARMLAND TRUST — $29,157 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROGUE FARM CORPS — $28,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN BUSINESS INSTITUTE & RESOURCE CENTER — $25,656 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE DRY FARMING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRESHWATER TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CCOF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWSMART MAINE ↗
  • Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON VALLEY AGRI-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds RAPPU INC ↗
  • Who funds KHUBA INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Acadia Center ↗
  • Who funds Genesee Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Farmland Trust Corporation ↗
  • Who funds MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PINES AND PRAIRIES LAND TRUST ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Land Trust Alliance I…The Nature ConservancyNational Fish and Wil…PatagoniaorgFarm Aid IncUNFI FoundationThe Conservation Fund…Clif Family FoundationCommunity Foundation …Rsf Social Finance IncEarth Island Institut…Resources Legacy Fund
Land Trust Alliance IncDC73.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Land Trust Alliance Inc · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Farm Aid Inc · UNFI Foundation · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Clif Family Foundation · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Earth Island Institute Inc · Resources Legacy Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Farmland Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Cecil Land Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Rogue Farm Corps — 91% of income from government
  • Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
  • World Farmers Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Massaro Community Farm Inc — 27% of income from government
  • The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
  • Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 241 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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