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In a Landscape

IN A LANDSCAPE: classical music in the wild (ial) is the outdoor concert series where america's most stunning landscapes replace the traditional concert hall.

$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$191kArts & Culture$68kEducation$27kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$6k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $100,245, the rows itemized in this filing. The $129,348 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,103 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$19,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$870k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE$26,825
TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST$24,980
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM$19,000
BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST$18,760
KANIKSU LAND TRUST$10,680
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $27k → 7%KANIKSU LAND TRUST: $11k → 12%BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST: $19k → 11%PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $19k → 11%HIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $5k → 10%LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $27k → 12%WILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $10k → 14%KESEY FARM PROJECT: $6k → 15%OGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $26k → 9%TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $25k → 7%CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15k → 12%WILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $9k → 14%OGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $21k → 9%TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $14k → 7%VORTEX2020: $44k → 12%TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $7k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 3 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$140k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-30%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TR
    TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $73k · revenue -1%
  • OV
    OGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue -30% · 30% of their budget
  • WR
    WILD RIVERS LAND TRUST
    2× · 2022–2023 · $19k · revenue -76%

Funded once

  • V
    VORTEX2020
    one grant, 2020 · $44k
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +1%
  • CP
    CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -5%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wood River Land Trust Co

The wood river land trust's mission is to protect and sustain the treasured landscapes and life-giving waters of the wood river valley and to inspire love for this special place for generations to come.

Environment
2
Eastern Sierra Land Trust

Established in 2001, eastern sierra land trust (eslt) works with willing landownersto preserve vital lands in the eastern sierra region for their scenic, agricultural,natural, recreational, historical, and watershed values. eslt recognizes…

Environment
3
Grand Teton National Park Foundation

Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…

Philanthropy
4
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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5
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
6
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
7
Pacific Crest Trail Association

The pacific crest trail association's mission is to advocate for the pacific crest trail as an inspirational outdoor experience, to connect people to the pct, and to conserve the trail.

—
8
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
9
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
10
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
11
Trout Unlimited Inc

To conserve, protect, and restore north america's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.

Animals
12
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc

The mission of the grand canyon trust is to safeguard the wonders of the grand canyon and the colorado plateau, while supporting the rights of its native peoples.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kaniksu Land Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lewis & Clark College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $73,397 · EnvironmentTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INCOGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $47,225 · EnvironmentOGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INCTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $22,300 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDWILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $19,065 · EnvironmentWILD RIVERS LAND TRUSTBITTER ROOT LAND TRUST: $18,760 · EnvironmentBITTER ROOT LAND TRUSTKaniksu Land Trust Inc: $10,680 · EnvironmentKaniksu Land Trust IncVORTEX2020: $44,054 · OtherVORTEX2020KESEY FARM PROJECT: $5,750 · OtherKESEY FARM PROJECTLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $26,825 · EducationLEWIS & C…PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $19,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $5,200 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $14,700 · Youth Development
Environment$191,427Other$49,804Education$26,825Arts & Culture$24,200Youth Development$14,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $73,397 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $47,225 over 2y, 30% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $26,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $22,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $19,065 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBITTER ROOT LAND TRUST: $18,760 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $14,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKaniksu Land Trust Inc: $10,680 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Land Trust Alliance I…The Oregon Community …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Land Trust Alliance IncDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Land Trust Alliance Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization In a Landscape funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from In a Landscape. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to In a Landscape?

Find your warmest path to In a Landscape through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $50k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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