How much does Conservation Lands Foundation give?

Conservation Lands Foundation reported 53 itemized grants totaling $2,516,500, out of $2,654,784 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Conservation Lands Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (90%), Arts & Culture (5%), Human Services (3%).

Who are Conservation Lands Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The California Desert Land Conservancy ($830k), Friends of Cedar Mesa ($740k), Archaeology Southwest ($732k).

Does Conservation Lands Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Conservation Lands Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, Patagoniaorg, The Wilderness Society.

Where is Conservation Lands Foundation based?

Conservation Lands Foundation is based in CO.

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Colorado · Public charity

Conservation Lands Foundation

To protect, restore, and expand the National Conservation Lands through education,advocacy, and partnerships.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 53
Itemized grants FY2025: 61
Organizations funded FY2024: 2%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $410,000
Organizations funded a year: 42 to 68; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 12
Total assets, FY2025: $11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Conservation Lands Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	53	$2.5M	0%
FY2024	61	$1.9M	2%
FY2023	64	$1.9M	6%
FY2022	68	$1.9M	28%
FY2021	51	$1.7M	25%
FY2020	44	$1.6M	16%
FY2019	42	$1.4M	21%
FY2018	46	$1.6M	30%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$14MArts & Culture$804kHuman Services$475kRecreation & Sports$221kAnimals$120kYouth Development$30k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The California Desert Land Conservancy	$830,000	9	3%
Friends of Cedar Mesa	$740,000	9	15%
Archaeology Southwest	$731,500	9	4%
Friends of the Inyo	$686,500	9	17%
Utah Dine Bikeyah	$685,000	7	14%
Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks	$677,000	9	54%
Friends of the Owyhee	$615,500	7	52%
Outside Las Vegas Foundation	$535,000	9	19%
Dolores River Boating Advocates	$504,000	9	53%
Conserve Southwest Utah	$480,000	9	65%

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All grantees of Conservation Lands Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The California Desert Land Conservancy	$830,000	9	3%
Friends of Cedar Mesa	$740,000	9	15%
Archaeology Southwest	$731,500	9	4%
Friends of the Inyo	$686,500	9	17%
Utah Dine Bikeyah	$685,000	7	14%
Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks	$677,000	9	54%
Friends of the Owyhee	$615,500	7	52%
Outside Las Vegas Foundation	$535,000	9	19%
Dolores River Boating Advocates	$504,000	9	53%
Conserve Southwest Utah	$480,000	9	65%
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance	$448,500	6	4%
Native American Land Conservancy	$425,000	9	28%
Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc	$412,500	9	7%
Tuleyome	$408,500	9	16%
Colorado Canyons Association	$355,000	9	18%
Amargosa Land Trust	$352,000	9	27%
Transition Habitat Conservancy	$330,000	8	2%
Friends of Gold Butte	$315,000	9	42%
Friends of Nevada Wilderness	$310,000	7	4%
Oregon Natural Desert Association	$300,000	7	2%
Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve	$291,500	9	42%
Amah Mutsun Land Trust	$260,000	8	6%
Conservation Legacy	$238,000	8	0%
Friends of the Desert Mountains	$234,000	8	4%
BLU Educational Foundation	$210,000	7	13%
Conejos County Clean Water Inc	$180,000	3	35%
Wyoming Outdoor Council	$180,000	4	3%
Mattole Restoration Council	$170,500	9	2%
Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas En Norte America	$167,500	9	4%
Trinidad Coastal Land Trust	$165,000	9	12%
San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council Inc	$151,500	7	32%
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc	$150,000	5	9%
Native Movement	$130,000	4	2%
Montana Wilderness Association	$128,000	5	1%
Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument	$125,000	5	21%
Wilderness Workshop	$120,000	4	2%
Western Conservation Foundation	$120,000	4	0%
New Mexico Wildlife Federation	$120,000	7	4%
Cactustocloud Institute	$94,000	2	63%
Friends of the Amargosa Basin	$92,000	4	22%
Friends of Ironwood Forest	$90,500	7	n/a
Upper Gila Watershed Alliance	$90,000	7	15%
Carrizo Plain Conservancy	$90,000	9	34%
National Wildlife Federation	$90,000	4	0%
Indigenous Voices Nevada	$85,000	4	10%
Wyoming Interfaith Network	$85,000	3	n/a
The Sierra Fund	$80,000	2	n/a
Friends of Avi Kwa Ame	$74,000	3	n/a
Friends of the Lost Coast	$73,000	7	22%
Fort Ord Recreational Trail Friends	$70,000	7	n/a
The Alaska Center Education Fund	$70,000	4	1%
Friends of Point Arena-Stornetta Lands	$66,000	6	n/a
Trail Access Project	$65,000	4	18%
Wyoming Wilderness Association	$60,000	5	6%
Great Basin Institute	$60,000	2	0%
Outward Bound Adventures	$60,000	3	3%
Together Rising as an Environmental Community	$50,000	1	3%
San Juan Citizens Alliance	$50,000	5	2%
Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance	$50,000	5	n/a
Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund	$48,500	4	2%
Friends of the Joshua Forest	$46,500	3	n/a
The Chaparral Lands Conservancy	$45,000	2	5%
The Frontera Land Alliance	$40,500	4	4%
Southwest Organizing Project	$40,000	4	1%
Grand Staircase Regional Guides Association	$40,000	4	n/a
First Presbyterian Church	$40,000	4	n/a
Outdoor Outreach	$40,000	3	1%
Friends of Red Rock Canyon	$35,000	3	6%
Alaska Conservation Foundation	$35,000	2	1%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States	$35,000	1	0%
Friends of the Agua Fria National Monument	$32,500	4	n/a
Greater Las Vegas Inner City Games	$30,000	2	1%
Community Initiatives	$30,000	3	0%
Together We can	$30,000	3	3%
Birds of Prey Nca Partnership	$30,000	2	13%
Young Masterminds Initiative Inc	$30,000	3	3%
Northern Alaska Environmental Center	$30,000	2	2%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center	$30,000	3	1%
Penn Center Inc	$30,000	1	1%
7G Foundation	$30,000	1	15%
California Conservation Corps	$29,539	1	n/a
Resources Legacy Fund	$25,000	1	0%
Friends of the Yampa Inc	$25,000	2	14%
Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument	$22,000	2	13%
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center	$20,000	2	0%
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council	$20,000	2	3%
Upper Snake River Tribes Foundation	$20,000	2	1%
Pompeys Pillar Historical Assoc	$20,000	2	8%
Sempervirens Fund	$20,000	1	0%
Friends of the Dunes	$20,000	2	2%
Friends of Joshua Tree	$10,000	1	n/a
Native Land Trust Council	$10,000	1	n/a
Keystone Center	$10,000	1	0%
Friends and Neighbors of the Deschutes Canyon Area	$10,000	1	75%
Friends of Black Rock High Rock Inc	$10,000	1	7%
Alaska Geographic Association	$10,000	1	0%
American Rivers Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Valle del Sol Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers	$10,000	1	0%
CalWild	$10,000	1	2%
John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Tewa Women United	$10,000	1	1%
Redwood Parks Conservancy	$10,000	1	1%
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center	$7,500	1	0%
Friends of Sloan Canyon	$6,500	1	n/a
Public Lands Foundation Inc	$6,000	1	9%

Conservation Lands Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 91.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Resources Legacy FundCA73.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · Patagoniaorg · The Wilderness Society · Western Conservation Foundation · National Forest Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Wilburforce Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Wyss Foundation · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Maki Foundation · National Park Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Conservation Lands Foundation

How much does Conservation Lands Foundation give?: Conservation Lands Foundation reported 53 itemized grants totaling $2,516,500, out of $2,654,784 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Conservation Lands Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (90%), Arts & Culture (5%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Conservation Lands Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The California Desert Land Conservancy ($830k), Friends of Cedar Mesa ($740k), Archaeology Southwest ($732k).
Does Conservation Lands Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Conservation Lands Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, Patagoniaorg, The Wilderness Society.
Where is Conservation Lands Foundation based?: Conservation Lands Foundation is based in CO.