· Public charity
The Trust for Public Land
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 95 grants below total $10,501,337 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,592,318 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $141,090,981 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+9 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOST WORSHIPFUL PRINCE HALL GRAND LODGE OF GEORGIA | $2,525,000 |
| YES ON PROP 4 CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER & WILDFIRE | $1,142,174 |
| PATAWOMECK INDIAN TRIBE OF VA | $1,072,000 |
| WAIPA FOUNDATION | $319,187 |
| COBB COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION | $305,026 |
| CITY OF CONCORD | $275,982 |
| EAST CLEVELAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION | $275,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $251,272 |
| LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | $250,000 |
| TREASURER STATE OF MAINE | $246,728 |
| YES ON PROP 2 CALIFORNIANS FOR QUALITY SCHOOLS | $175,000 |
| ENDAZHI NITAAWIGING | $172,749 |
| CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST | $171,920 |
| COUNTY OF SUFFOLK | $150,000 |
| INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 286 BROOKLYN CENTER | $131,345 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those 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 +30% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.9M 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
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $7.0M · revenue +62%
- AKALA KAHAKAI TRAIL ASSOCIATION4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +10%
- MHMALAMA HULEIA2× · 2022–2025 · $700k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- RARIVERS AND MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- COCITY OF JOHNS CREEKone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- FOFRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARKone grant, 2023 · $800k · revenue +11% · 100% of their budget
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.
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Public land solutions is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive recreation planning and stakeholder coordination to support effective and sustainable public land solutions.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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.
To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Expedition Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
282 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. 282 of the 369 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MOST WORSHIPFUL PRINCE HALL GR LODGE FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS ↗
- Who funds ALA KAHAKAI TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON RANGELAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds MALAMA HULEIA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Coastal Corridor Alliance ↗
- Who funds Livable Hawaii Kai Hui ↗
- Who funds WAIPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED PARKS AS ONE ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FEATHER RIVER 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.
Open a dossier: The Nature Conservancy · Land Trust Alliance Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Patagoniaorg · Davis Conservation Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · National Recreation and Park Association · Gates Family Foundation · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · The Kresge Foundation
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 The Trust for Public Land 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.
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc — 100% of income from government
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Willamette Partnership — 76% of income from government
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Elderberry Wisdom Farm — 56% of income from government
- Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
- Urban Agriculture Cooperative — 2% of income from government
- In a Landscape — 0% 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.