Alaska · Nonprofit
BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST
BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST (Alaska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,699,051 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($18,903,576). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $205k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust does
Mission
Conservation through holding land and conservation easements in trust, conservation education, preservation of habitat in the watersheds of Bristol Bay, Alaska and scientific research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Code 90099 - During the year the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust continued to pursue measures and scientific research to protect the conservation values of lands and waters of Bristol Bay Alaska. The Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust continued to pursue conservation protection through the acquisition of conservation easements or fee title. During the year the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust continued to sponsor educational services that create awareness of the Bristol Bay region and promote conservation in the Bristol Bay region. Among these services is the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy that promotes conservation while providing young adults employable skills in the recreational fishing community of Bristol Bay. The amount shown as grants includes contributions, government and other grants, and donations designated by the donors for educational services.
$154,781 spentof which $108,750 as grants$205,451 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,781.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $1.9M (+41%).
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 27% · 2021 33% · 2022 40% · 2023 22% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE 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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Timothy Troll
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $333k → $64k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 49% · 2019 38% · 2020 58% · 2021 40% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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
23% of BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $474k 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
BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $990k on record.
- Department of the Interior$920k
- Department of Commerce$60k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE 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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE 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 BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST?
- BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST (Alaska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,699,051 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($18,903,576). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $19,699,051 in grants to BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST?
- THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,903,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRISTOL BAY HERITAGE LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 15 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