· Public charity
Land Trust Alliance Inc
To save the places people love by strengthening land conservation across america.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 122 grants below total $5,340,116 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,765,732 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $425,616 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 $10k27 grants · $183k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE GEORGE LAND CONSERVANCY | $377,600 |
| SCENIC HUDSON LAND TRUST | $350,000 |
| GENESEE VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $332,007 |
| LAND TRUST ACCREDITATION COMMISSION | $245,200 |
| MOHONK PRESERVE | $162,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $139,000 |
| MIANUS RIVER GORGE | $123,593 |
| GENESSEE LAND TRUST INC | $119,333 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC | $110,529 |
| RENSSELAER PLATEAU ALLIANCE | $106,248 |
| WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST INC | $106,155 |
| BUFFALO NIAGARA RIVER LAND TRUST | $104,750 |
| HUDSON HIGHLANDS LAND TRUST | $100,400 |
| BROOKLYN QUEENS LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL NEW YORK LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
178 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LTLAND TRUST ACCREDITATION COMMISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +1%
- LGLake George Land Conservancy Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $675k · revenue +366%
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $629k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TSTHE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +11%
- TSThe Scenic Hudson Land Trust Incone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -20%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc Group Returngraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Conservation and preservation of land.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…
To conserve and steward lands and waters of Westmoreland County that harbor ecological, cultural or recreational qualities to offer a healthier and more sustainable future for all.
The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
Dedicated to working cooperatively with landowners and public and private conservation partners to preserve and protect important natural areas and open spaces of the blue ridge foothills region, including watersheds, environmentally…
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…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
To protect the natural heritage and rural character of the greater Livingston County area by preserving quality natural areas and productive farmland. To promote an appreciation and understanding of the environment for the long term…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Valley Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
313 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. 313 of the 322 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 LAND TRUST ACCREDITATION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Lake George Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENBELT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Genesee Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Hudson Taconic Lands Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN AREA TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MIANUS RIVER GORGE INC ↗
- Who funds Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds Grassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Cazenovia Preservation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds North Coast Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRASSLAND BIRD TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TUG HILL TOMORROW LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Queens Land Trust ↗
- Who funds The Wetlands Conservancy Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Nature Conservancy · American Farmland Trust · Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Trust for Public Land · Ibm International Foundation · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts · Appalachian Trail Conservancy
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 Land Trust Alliance Inc 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.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Greenbelt Land Trust — 31% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Wetlands Conservancy Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — 18% of income from government
- Harford Land Trust Inc — 15% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wallowa Land Trust — 3% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Lower Nehalem Community Trust — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Agricultural Trust — 2% of income from government
- South Hero Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
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.