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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $661k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Bull Creek Common Lands does
Mission
To conserve land and provide public access. Benefit the innate ecological value of the land, specifically forest resiliency and biodiversity. Enhance the community's vitality by encouraging access to land for community-defined purposes including farming, foraging, recreation, affordable housing and education. Enhance the community's climate resilience and help to mitigate the effects of climate change via healthy forests, wetlands and shared environment. Conserve natural, cultural, historic, and agricultural landscapes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outdoor recreation and educational programs: collaborated with the grafton nature museum and athens brick meeting house to co-sponsor two educational events. An information kiosk was maintained at the trailhead. Over 74 hours of volunteer work constructed and maintained the hiking trails, bridge crossing and parking area. All materials for the information kiosk were donated by community members.
$2,583 spent21% of program spendingLand management and maintenance: maintenance of woods roads to prevent erosion. Removal of invasive plants and protection of native hardwood seedlings. Marking of boundary lines around the property and placement of boundary signs. Removal of trash. Inventory of vernal pool salamander and frog populations. Over 314 volunteer hours
$5,238 spent43% of program spendingNew land conservation: purchased and conserved 231 acres of ecologically critical land in the headwaters of the bull creek. The land highlights include 10-acres of wetlands, state-significant vernal pools, populations of the federally endangered northeastern bulrush and legacy red oak trees. Over 134 volunteer hours
$4,345 spent36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,166.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $403k to $1.0M (+159%).
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% · 2025 51%. 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 3 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
Hannah Regier
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
Against its field
BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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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.
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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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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