Rhode Island · Nonprofit
AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST
AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST (Rhode Island) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,006,085 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($4,716,456). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Aquidneck Island Land Trust does
Mission
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the tax year, the organization launched a new resilience program. Through our aquidneck resilience team, we are partnering with the three island municipalities, naval station newport, and the broader community to prepare for and respond to increasing climate change related challenges, such as, stormwater pollution, flooding and coastal erosion.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
One property consisting of 13.01 acres was permanently protected on aquidneck island in the year ended september 30, 2025. Preserved parcels are strategically important based on clear conservation criteria. As of september 30, 2025, the land trust has preserved and protected 2,854.04 acres of land to date. Through our aquidneck resilience team, we are partnering with the three island municipalities, naval station newport, and the broader community to prepare for and respond to increasing climate change related challenges, such as, stormwater pollution, flooding and coastal erosion.
$1,018,497 spent66% of program spendingThe land trust assures responsible, perpetual stewardship for all conserved lands, driven by a commitment to protect each parcel to the highest possible standard in accordance with the conservation easement, a dedication to excellence and care in stewardship practices, and ardent defense of the land entrusted to them by grantors.
$269,254 spent17% of program spendingPublic access, education, and communication, primarily through membership services, bolster the land trust's land protection and stewardship objectives through targeted and sharply focused education and communication activities and balanced public access strategies that promote a land conservation ethic, create an understanding of the urgent need to conserve open spaces, and build broad-based public awareness and support of the land trust's mission and goals. Activities include lectures, property tours, newsletters, promotional materials, the annual report, and annual meeting.
$250,848 spentof which $10,148 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,538,599.
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 $19M to $26M (+33%).
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: 2021 0% · 2024 20% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST’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. 2 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
Terence Sullivan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $747k → $112k.
15 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 26% · 2019 29% · 2020 43% · 2021 73% · 2022 63% · 2023 224% — 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
54% of AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$2.0M
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 AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Three S Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: 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 AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST?
- AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST (Rhode Island) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,006,085 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($4,716,456). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $11,006,085 in grants to AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST?
- VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,716,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 78 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