New Hampshire · Nonprofit
AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST
AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST (New Hampshire) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,907,080 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($838,285). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust does
Mission
Serving the towns of andover, bradford, danbury, goshen, grantham, new london, newbury, springfield, sunapee, sutton, warner & wilmot - the mission of the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust is to preserve and protect the rural character of the region for the public benefit through land conservation, stewardship, community engagement and organizational integrity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land protection: aslpt has been implementing it's 2022 conservation plan by discussing important properties in the focus areas at the lands committee level. Aslpt will also be meeting with the local towns to discuss introductions with landowners. Aslpt protects properties through both conservation easements and fee simple acquisition. Land protection includes review, evaluation, and detailed research before proceeding with the protection of a property. Aslpt insures that every transaction is legal, proper, and appropriate to the goals of the land trust and the requirements of the land trust accreditation commission. For each conservation project, we prepare a baseline documentation report that provides a detailed representation of the property and its condition at the time of its transfer.
$68,928 spent12% of program spendingCommunity relations and education: aslpt is proactive in building community relations and educating its members, landowners, conservation partners, government leaders, and the public. Our goal is to be recognized as a trusted resource for land protection expertise in the mount kearsarge/ragged/lake sunapee region of new hampshire. We sponsor and offer conservation related events, meetings, and workshops aimed at building close ties with the community in the twelve towns we serve, around land protection issues, growth/development challenges, and conservation priorities. Additionally, our outreach efforts include hosting a semi-annual conservation commission chairperson's roundtable discussion to exchange information, resources, and experiences throughout the region. We utilize numerous communication resources including a twice-yearly printed newsletter, mailings, fact sheets, e-blasts, website, in-person events held on conservation properties, speaking engagements to civic groups, and neighborhood gatherings.
$384,846 spent67% of program spendingStewardship & monitoring: stewardship is the overall management and oversight of all ausbon sargent conservation easements and fee-owned properties. Stewardship includes, but is not limited to, monitoring and defending easements, record keeping, building landowner relationships, providing educational material and events for landowners, volunteers, members, and staff, reviewing amendment requests and reserved rights inquiries from landowners on properties on which we hold a conservation easement. Monitoring is the annual periodic property inspections by our trained volunteer monitors or staff, as well as the preparation of documents for the inspection and documentation and follow-up of the inspection. Monitoring serves as a regular reminder that the landowner is legally bound to keep the property in the condition as defined in the conservation easement. All monitoring reports are reviewed by staff and in the event of a compliance issue, aslpt staff carries out an investigation and works to resolve the issue.monitoring is done by volunteers; however, we generally aim to have staff visit 20 of these properties with volunteer monitors each year. These visits vary in length depending…
$120,624 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,398.
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 $6.1M to $9.8M (+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.
88% of AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION 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.
Board chair
Robert Zeller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $60k → $371k.
18 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
66% 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 AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 54% · 2019 64% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 21% · 2023 34% — 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
64% of AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
66% of AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $989k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION 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 AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST?
- AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST (New Hampshire) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,907,080 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($838,285). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,907,080 in grants to AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $838,285 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 50 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