Iowa · Nonprofit
BUR OAK LAND TRUST
BUR OAK LAND TRUST (Iowa) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,900 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($131,138). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $791k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $345k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Bur Oak Land Trust does
Mission
Advancing biodiversity in eastern iowa by protecting resilient landscapes and connecting people to nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Property stewardship: Bur Oak Land Trust owns and manages 13 local natural areas in iowa's johnson, muscatine and poweshiek counties, totaling 594 acres. The trust also holds 17 conservation easements, totaling 391 acres from private landowners who wish to protect their land from development in perpetuity. The trust has a conservation director and a stewardship director who develop management plans for each property in collaboration with americorps members and volunteers.
$605,566 spent100% of program spendingLand conservation and management: property management plans for fee-owned properties include identification of native and non-native species found on the properties, control of invasive species, and unique management requirements necessary for the protection of endangered, threatened, and species of special concern. Reduction of invasive species will allow for the reestablishment of a more resilient native ecosystem. In 2025, approximately 15,000 hours of active land management occurred on the trust's fee-owned properties, with a focus on habitat restoration and improvement. Management techniques and activities included prescribed fire, timber stand improvement and canopy reduction, mechanical removal of invasive species, native seed harvesting and seed spreading, and native shrub and tree planting.
Public awareness, education and support: Bur Oak Land Trust staff, board members, volunteers, and americorps members presented to diverse community groups promoting land conservation and providing educational opportunities. The trust hosted in-person and online educational and outreach events. The trust maintains a social media presence through numerous platforms, providing educational content and promoting opportunities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $605,566.
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.
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 $3.2M to $3.4M (+8%).
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: 2019 18% · 2020 25% · 2021 41% · 2022 23% · 2023 34% · 2024 32% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $40k → $40k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 BUR OAK 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
BUR OAK LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 BUR OAK LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 35% · 2019 55% · 2020 55% · 2021 40% · 2022 36% · 2023 51% — 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
50% of BUR OAK LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
68% of BUR OAK LAND 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 $110k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k 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.
Government funding BUR OAK LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Department of the Interior$6k
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 BUR OAK 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUR OAK 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 BUR OAK LAND TRUST?
- BUR OAK LAND TRUST (Iowa) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,900 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($131,138). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUR OAK LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $344,900 in grants to BUR OAK LAND TRUST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUR OAK LAND TRUST?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $131,138 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUR OAK LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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