Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC (Arizona) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,325,336 to it, the largest being THE QUERCUS FUND INC ($965,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc does
Mission
Arizona land and water trust has been a trusted partner to ranchers and farmers of southern arizona for over 40 years. The trust achieves its mission to protect land and water by working with private landowners (continued on schedule o)who are interested in voluntarily conserving their lands. The trust also works with public entities to develop local and community conservation plans and goals, and often serves as a bridge between public entities and private landowners. The trust is one of numerous conservation organizations qualified by state and federal regulations to accept conservation easements and charitable contributions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arizona land and water trust continued to advance its protection of biologically sensitive areas and working landscapes throughout fy25, producing a number of outreach and education community workshops on land and water protection options, and providing technical assistance on conservation, land use and policy-related issues. The trust maintained the protection of its existing easements and properties and made further progress on protecting new lands. The trust continued its innovative water conservation efforts, saving millions of gallons of water for the environment to date, and expanded its focus into the area of resiliency efforts on lands already protected by the organization.(continued on schedule o)as of 9/30/25, arizona land and water trust had protected nearly 72,000 acres to date with willing landowners and over 500,000 acres as a result of our policy work in land and water planning, habitat conservation and wildlife corridor mapping. Our conservation efforts and partnerships have leveraged upwards of $350,000,000 over the life of the organization for land and water conservation.during fiscal year 2025, arizona land and water trust continued to advance its protection of…
$551,448 spentof which $250 as grants$-92,008 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $551,448.
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 $12M to $19M (+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 63% · 2018 61% · 2019 27% · 2020 70% · 2021 78% · 2022 85% · 2023 64% · 2024 6% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of ARIZONA LAND AND WATER 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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $165k → $269k.
11 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 88% · 2019 54% · 2020 48% · 2021 38% · 2022 42% · 2023 37% — 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
38% of ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1000k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$20.9M
- Department of Agriculture$151k
- Department of the Interior$25k
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 ARIZONA LAND AND WATER 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA LAND AND WATER 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 ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC?
- ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC (Arizona) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,325,336 to it, the largest being THE QUERCUS FUND INC ($965,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $4,325,336 in grants to ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC?
- THE QUERCUS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $965,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 48 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