North Carolina · Public charity
Conservation Trust for North Carolina
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. We carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. Our goal is to lessen the impacts of a changing climate and ensure conservation benefits everyone by being more inclusive and…
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $85k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,893
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Conservation Trust for North Carolina funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $85k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $98k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $300k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $223k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $1.2M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $6.0M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $2.6M | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tar River Land Conservancy | $6,710,856 | 5 | 54% |
| Triangle Land Conservancy Inc | $1,604,839 | 5 | 16% |
| Ellerbee Creek Watershed Association | $780,859 | 5 | 24% |
| Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley Inc | $498,593 | 4 | 18% |
| Durham Soil & Water Conservation District | $360,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc | $232,226 | 8 | 2% |
| Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina Inc | $227,900 | 7 | 2% |
| Manning Fulton | $184,781 | 3 | n/a |
| Conserving Carolina | $152,754 | 7 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Conservancy | $150,117 | 7 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Conservation Trust for North Carolina supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · North Carolina Native Plant Society · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Conservation Trust for North Carolina
- How much does Conservation Trust for North Carolina give?
- Conservation Trust for North Carolina reported 5 itemized grants totaling $84,530, out of $89,530 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Conservation Trust for North Carolina fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Community Improvement (0%), Youth Development (0%).
- Who are Conservation Trust for North Carolina's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tar River Land Conservancy ($6.7M), Triangle Land Conservancy Inc ($1.6M), Ellerbee Creek Watershed Association ($781k).
- Does Conservation Trust for North Carolina fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Conservation Trust for North Carolina?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc, The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation.
- Where is Conservation Trust for North Carolina based?
- Conservation Trust for North Carolina is based in NC.
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