Minnesota · Nonprofit
BELWIN CONSERVANCY
BELWIN CONSERVANCY (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,139,591 to it, the largest being SMIKIS FOUNDATION ($900,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Belwin Conservancy does
Mission
To inspire connection and engagement with the natural world
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ecological restoration/environmental education - restoration of natural communities that once flourished in the st. Croix valley, but are now endangered due to habitat fragmentation, development etc. Visitors of all ages come to walk the 9 miles of trails of natural landscape on more than 1500 acres. More than 10,000 students, comprised of every 3rd and 5th grader in the st. Paul school district, as well as high school students,visit the Belwin Conservancy each year where they are instructed by professional environmental educators. As well as recreation - belwin offers the community two types of recreational activities. The lucy winton bell athletic fields with soccer, baseball and football fields covers 50 acres. It is primarily for children participating in the programs run by the st. Croix soccer club and st. Croix valley athletic association. The high quality fields were opened in 1999 after community leaders asked belwin to participate in providing facilities that were not otherwise available to the community. Passive hiking trails are available to the public and maintained by belwin in numerous places on its property adjacent to the lucy winton bell athletic fields.
$705,911 spent57% of program spendingArt, science and nature - belwin provides high quality, diverse art (and science) programming, both participatory and observatory that will in all cases include an environmental message that leaves participants delighted with the experience and enlightened to environmental issues.
$537,523 spent43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,243,434.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $17M to $21M (+23%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 16% · 2023 6% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $143k → $924k.
13 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 BELWIN CONSERVANCY’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
BELWIN CONSERVANCY 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 46% · 2019 50% · 2020 45% · 2021 29% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% — 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
57% of BELWIN CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
92% of BELWIN CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $671k 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.
Organizations like BELWIN CONSERVANCY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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
- Belwin Supporting Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELWIN CONSERVANCY: 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 BELWIN CONSERVANCY?
- BELWIN CONSERVANCY (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,139,591 to it, the largest being SMIKIS FOUNDATION ($900,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELWIN CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,139,591 in grants to BELWIN CONSERVANCY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELWIN CONSERVANCY?
- SMIKIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELWIN CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing