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Weconservepa

WECONSERVEPA helps people protect, wisely use, and enjoy what nature offers.

$234k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$932kArts & Culture$28k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $177,567 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $234,039 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,472 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $149k
$11,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVAN$39,868
FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST$30,591
WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY$24,000
CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY$16,000
BERKS NATURE$15,926
WESTERN PA CONSERVANCY INC$11,500
FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE FORESTS$11,500
FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERV$9,350
TINICUM CONSERVANCY$7,500
HERITAGE CONSERVANCY$6,000
NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST$5,332
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY: $12k → 6%HERITAGE CONSERVANCY: $12k → 6%CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $15k → 8%LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY: $16k → 9%FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $48k → 9%BERKS NATURE: $16k → 11%ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $16k → 11%WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $24k → 11%LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $9k → 11%MANADA CONSERVANCY: $34k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE FORESTS: $12k → 14%NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST: $15k → 15%CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY: $16k → 16%CAMBRIA COUNTY CONSERVATION & RECRE: $10k → 16%CHESTNUT HILL CONSERVANCY: $11k → 22%HERITAGE CONSERVANCY: $9k → 6%CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $12k → 8%LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY: $12k → 9%FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $32k → 9%BERKS NATURE: $15k → 11%ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $15k → 11%WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: $15k → 11%MANADA CONSERVANCY: $14k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE FORESTS: $12k → 14%CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY: $16k → 16%LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY: $9k → 9%FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $31k → 9%BERKS NATURE: $15k → 11%MANADA CONSERVANCY: $12k → 12%CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY: $15k → 16%LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY: $9k → 9%FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $30k → 9%BERKS NATURE: $13k → 11%CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY: $12k → 16%FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERV: $19k → 6%FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $24k → 9%WESTERN PA CONSERVANCY INC: $12k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $16k → 12%FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERV: $11k → 6%TINICUM CONSERVANCY: $15k → 6%FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $24k → 9%BERKS COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $18k → 11%WESTERN PA CONSERVANCY INC: $12k → 11%FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERV: $9k → 6%TINICUM CONSERVANCY: $13k → 6%FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST: $24k → 9%BERKS COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $12k → 11%PA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$900k · 17 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +166% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$900k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+166%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • FN
    FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST OF YORK CO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +386%
  • BN
    BERKS NATURE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +167%
  • MC
    MANADA CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +395%

Funded once

  • PE
    PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • CC
    CAMBRIA COUNTY CONSERVATION & RECRE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TL
    THE LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +4%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Westmoreland Conservancy

The westmoreland conservancy is an accredited non-profit land trust located in murrysville about 20 miles east of pittsburgh in westmoreland county. the organization was founded in 1991, and has always been run by community volunteers. the…

Environment
2
Montgomery County Lands Trust Inc

Land Conservation and Preservation.

Environment
3
Independence Conservancyinc

Preserving open space by acquisition, easement or deed restriction to protect wildlife habitat, natural and cultural resources, scenic views and quality of life; providing stewardship of watersheds in southwestern pennsylvania through…

Environment
4
Penns Valley Conservation Association

To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…

Environment
5
Lancaster County Conservancy

The mission of the lancaster county conservancy is "providing wild and forested lands and clean waterways for our community forever". the charitable purposes of the lancaster county conservancy include preservation of natural lands,…

Environment
6
Westmoreland Land Trust

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.

Environment
7
Natural Lands Trust Inc

Saves open space, cares for nature, and connects people to the outdoors. (See schedule O)

Environment
8
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc

The mission of the Willistown Conservation Trust is to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities, and to share these…

Environment
9
New River Land Trust

To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.

Environment
10
Montgomery Creek Preserve
Philanthropy
11
Earth Conservancy

Earth conservancy is a nonprofit organization committed to the reclamation and return of over 16,000 acres of former coal company-owned land to the region. it collaborates with local communities, government agencies, education…

Environment
12
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr18%45%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr17%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr14%54%35–55yr17%15%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
10%
3,478/33,810

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST OF YORK CO — $212,523 · EnvironmentFARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST OF YORK COBERKS NATURE — $96,471 · EnvironmentBERKS NATUREMANADA CONSERVANCY — $66,767 · EnvironmentMANADA CONSERVANCYTHE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC — $65,434 · EnvironmentTHE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INCNORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $51,368 · EnvironmentNORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC — $46,500 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INCLAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC — $46,371 · EnvironmentLAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY INCFRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $44,778 · EnvironmentFRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INCALLEGHENY LAND TRUST — $44,411 · EnvironmentALLEGHENY LAND TRUSTTINICUM CONSERVANCY — $35,862 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY INC — $33,093 · EnvironmentWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $30,500 · Environment+5 more — $54,754 · Environment+5 moreHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $37,750 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE …Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $27,803 · Arts & CultureBrandywin…Chestnut Hill Conservancy — $16,954 · Arts & CultureChestnut …THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,800 · OtherCAMBRIA COUNTY CONSERVATION & RECRE — $9,634 · OtherThe Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc — $23,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$828,832Arts & Culture$82,507Other$25,434Philanthropy$23,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST OF YORK CO — $212,523 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetBERKS NATURE — $96,471 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMANADA CONSERVANCY — $66,767 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetTHE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC — $65,434 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $51,368 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC — $46,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC — $46,371 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetFRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $44,778 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST — $44,411 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $37,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTINICUM CONSERVANCY — $35,862 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY INC — $33,093 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $30,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $27,803 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc — $23,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST — $19,920 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetChestnut Hill Conservancy — $16,954 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC — $9,334 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN LAND TRUST — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Foundation for Pennsy…The William Penn Foun…The Nature ConservancyOpen Space Institute …Pennsylvania Environm…Land Trust Alliance I…Ppl FoundationNational Fish and Wil…Natural Lands Trust I…Pennsylvania Trout IncPa Cleanways IncAppalachian Trail Con…
Foundation for Pennsylvania WatershedsPA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · The William Penn Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc · Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Ppl Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Natural Lands Trust Inc · Pennsylvania Trout Inc · Pa Cleanways Inc · 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 Weconservepa 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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