Florida · Nonprofit
ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC
ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC (Florida) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,370,018 to it, the largest being RIVER BRANCH FOUNDATION ($2,570,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Alachua Conservation Trust Inc does
Mission
The mission of alachua conservation trust (act) is to protect the natural, historic, scenic and recreational resources in and around alachua county, florida. Act protects land through purchase, donation, and conservation easements.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land protection: in 2022, act continued its most robust land protection efforts. In 2021, act purchased the 94-acre telford spring property in suwannee county, which also helped protect more than a mile of river frontage on the suwannee river as well as the beautiful 2nd magnitude telford spring and spring run. In 2022, act sold the property to the suwannee river water management district to become part of the peacock springs conservation area. Also in 2021, act purchased the 160-acre inholding at river rise preserve state park. This parcel is critical to the management of the uplands for the state park. By acquiring this tract and selling it to the state of florida, act helped the park service avoid a future filled with management and restoration headaches. The sale was completed to the state of florida in 2022. Additionally, act sold a conservation easement on its 254-acre santa fe springs preserve in columbia county to the suwannee river water management district as a way to help offset the cost of acquiring this preserve in prior years. Act continued its outreach in 2022 to agricultural landowners to place conservation easements on farms located in the farmland preservation…
$554,687 spent31% of program spendingProperty management: act actively manages fourteen major preserves along with several smaller conservation properties across north central florida. Acts land management activities include forest, groundcover, and wetlands restoration, creating and maintaining public trails and informational kiosks, the application of prescribed fire, and exotic plant species control. Act benefits from the use of volunteers from the university of florida, santa fe college, middlebury college, emory university alumni, local businesses, and the community at large to help complete these management activities alongside staff. In 2022, acts women in the woods resource management internship program, which is specifically tailored for young women (but also includes young men) in an effort to improve their hiring prospects in this traditionally male oriented conservation career path, served 6 young women and 4 young men over the spring, summer, and fall semesters. In total, the program has served more than 46 young women and men since it began in 2017. In total, interns and volunteers contributed more than 6,600 hours of service to the organization. The annual tree fest event organized by swamp head…
$897,948 spent$168,001 earned by the program50% of program spendingEducation and outreach: act was able to host several select educational and outreach workshops at its preserves. Those events focused on volunteer engagement, preserve clean-ups and conservation activities to support the organizations mission and goals. Act resumed hosting many of its educational events about conservation, wildlife, and related topics in person. For many of these, act partnered with state and local agencies, individuals, and other local nonprofits. Act hosted several outdoor paddling outreach events on the santa fe river and tuscawilla prairie. Throughout the year, act continued its traditional outreach via its print newsletter, the gazetteer, and maintained a comprehensive website, which was updated regularly throughout 2022. Act also relied heavily on its social media channels and regular monthly emails, field notes, to provide educational content to the public and promote acts mission and work. These channels reached over 10,000 subscribers in 2022 on such topics as ecology, wildlife, organizational activities, staff notes from the field, natural history, and upcoming act virtual events. Finally, in 2022 act was again able to host all of its regular outreach…
$357,903 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,810,538.
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 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $33M (+31%).
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 33% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 20% · 2021 71% · 2022 40% · 2023 72% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $223k → $1.1M.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 50% · 2019 31% · 2020 40% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 2023 50% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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
ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record — $3.7M federal, $2.1M state.
- Department of the Interior$3.7M
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $2.1M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $169
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALACHUA CONSERVATION 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC?
- ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC (Florida) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,370,018 to it, the largest being RIVER BRANCH FOUNDATION ($2,570,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $11,370,018 in grants to ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC?
- RIVER BRANCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing