Vermont · Nonprofit
BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS
BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,350 to it, the largest being OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Momentum Conservationshared funders
- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Societyportfolio match
- Pennsylvania Environmental Council Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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: 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $9k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS’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
BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Momentum Conservationshared fundersME · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Environmental Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Trail Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fair Ways Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weconservepaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Trust for North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Watershed Research & Training Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Trshared fundersPA · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $389k on record.
- Grants$389k
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 BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS?
- BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,350 to it, the largest being OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $194,350 in grants to BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS?
- OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing