Georgia · Nonprofit
ATHENS LAND TRUST INC
ATHENS LAND TRUST INC (Georgia) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,139,214 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($1,099,999). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Athens Land Trust Inc does
Mission
The athens land trust (alt) is both a conservation and community land trust, protecting and stewarding land for environmental, economic, and affordable housing purposes. Alt provides education opportunities for first-time homebuyers, youth through paid job training opportunities, and neighborhood residents through advisory board trainings. Alt supports new and beginning farmers through incubation, workshops, classes, and access to farmland.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Affordable housing program: athens land trust provides quality, affordable housing to low-to-moderate income residents of athens-clarke county, georgia by construction of new homes and renovation of existing homes. The program produces energy efficient homes that remain affordable by the use of ground leases agreements and the community land trust model. Alt also offers the young urban builders (yub) program which provides job skills training and education centered around residential construction and renovation to youth in athens-clarke county. Additionally, athens land trust is a hud approved housing counseling agency and provides both individual and group education services to clarke, oconee, barrow, jackson, elbert, madison, oglethorpe, walton and franklin counties.
$1,014,931 spent45% of program spendingOther community and conservation program: this program strives to support healthy, vibrant communities by protecting farmland and other natural resources, developing a sustainable local food system, strengthening the local economy at the neighborhood level, and building knowledge of local food issues and the benefits of eating fresh, local produce. Alt also offers the young urban farmers (yuf) program and young conservation stewards (ycs) program that provide job skills training and education centered around sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship and conservation practices to youth in athens-clarke county. Conservation easements - athens land trust permanently protects greenspace by accepting, monitoring, and enforcing permanent conservation easements that protect the land's conservation values.
$1,215,689 spent55% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,230,620.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.9M to $8.6M (+9%).
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 50% · 2018 36% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 38% · 2022 44% · 2023 48% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of ATHENS 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 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 12 funders, grant income rose $235k → $238k.
6 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ATHENS LAND TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
ATHENS LAND TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 40% · 2020 54% · 2021 47% · 2022 71% · 2023 42% — broadly stable.
“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
35% of ATHENS LAND 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
ATHENS LAND TRUST INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ATHENS LAND TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ATHENS LAND TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$6.1M
- Department of Energy$1.2M
- Environmental Protection Agency$120k
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 ATHENS 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 2 related entities
- Alt Farms LLC · disregarded
- Alt-Fsv Subsidiary Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATHENS LAND 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 ATHENS LAND TRUST INC?
- ATHENS LAND TRUST INC (Georgia) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,139,214 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($1,099,999). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATHENS LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,139,214 in grants to ATHENS LAND TRUST INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATHENS LAND TRUST INC?
- The Kendeda Fund is the largest funder on record, with $1,099,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATHENS LAND TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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