New York · Nonprofit
ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC
ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,019,845 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($5,022,997). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Adirondack Land Trust Inc does
Mission
To forever conserve the forests, farmlands, waters and wild places that advance the quality of life of our communities and the ecological integrity of the adirondacks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land conservation program: the adirondack land trust's (alt) conservation program focuses on the efficient and effective conservation of lands that further our mission and ensure their long-term stewardship and well-being. Our program area covers nearly seven million acres centered in the adirondack park and includes northern clinton and franklin counties, the upper black river valley to the west, and the upper champlain basin to the east. Land protection efforts include the acquisition of lands for alt preserves or as additions to the public lands of the adirondack park as well as the acquisition of conservation easements to permanently protect private farms, forests and natural areas. (continued on schedule o) (continued) during the year ended june 30, 2025, the trust completed four fee simple land protection projects including the acquisition of a 67-acre tract on willsboro point in partnership with the town of willsboro, ny marking the organizations first municipal park partnership project. In addition, alt added an 80-acre tract to its preserve in westport, ny and purchased a 41-acre tract in wells, ny along the scenic griffin gorge as future addition to ny's forest preserve.…
$2,939,437 spent$60,477 earned by the program81% of program spendingOutreach and education program: the adirondack land trust (alt) outreach and education program focuses on educating the public about the value of land conservation in the adirondack region. It enables much of our land conservation work because it inspires and empowers landowners to take steps toward sustainable management and a sustainable future for their lands; publicizes the broad benefits of land conservation; builds partnerships with communities, state agencies, and other organizations; and promotes a land conservation ethic throughout the adirondacks. Accomplishments of the past year include educational field trips to protected lands to increase engagement in conservation and bolster nature appreciation; releasing a parkwide report on accessible wildland trails (continued on schedule o) (continued) that allow people with mobility disabilities to experience nature; partnering with local libraries to provide free birdwatching field kits that can be checked out like a book; finalizing a community-based effort to make major upgrades to a popular hiking trail in lake placid estimated to attract more than 15,000 hikers per year; refining a cultural due diligence process to…
$705,201 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,644,638.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $24M (+61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Michael Carr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 48 funders, grant income fell $4.6M → $2.6M.
11 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Columbus Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 45% · 2019 27% · 2020 17% · 2021 12% · 2022 39% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC?
- ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,019,845 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($5,022,997). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $13,019,845 in grants to ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $5,022,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 87 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing