Indiana · Nonprofit
CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED
CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED (Indiana) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,064,440 to it, the largest being JEAN AND BERNAS DOWNING CHARITABLE TRUST ($6,253,615). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated does
Mission
The central indiana land trust, inc. Preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The central indiana land trust, inc. (cilti) preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage. Cilti owns 2,304 acres. Cilti also has 2,944 acres under conservation easement. In addition, cilti has provided assistance in protecting partner properties, making our total acres protected throughout the region 8,051 acres. In 2023, cilti protected 570 acres of unbroken forest in putnam county, known as fern station. We conserved 200 acres west of sugar mill creek in beautiful parke county through conservation easement. We expanded both betley woods at glacier's end and callon hollow, increasing habitat for sensitive species like broad-winged hawks, hooded warblers, & eastern box turtles. We planted trees in a former farm field adjoining meltzer woods, buffering the old growth forest. Another tree planting at the wallace f. Holladay preserve at ameriplex also moved us closer to our million tree goal.
$1,101,835 spentof which $30,000 as grants$805 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,101,835.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $31M to $36M (+19%).
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: 2017 0% · 2019 5% · 2020 8% · 2021 0% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED’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. 0 of the last 8 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
Clifford R Chapman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $118k → $1.0M.
14 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED’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
CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 70% · 2019 49% · 2020 72% · 2021 47% · 2022 62% · 2023 52% — 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
70% of CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
99% of CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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
- Citli - Oliver Woods LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED: 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 CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED?
- CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED (Indiana) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,064,440 to it, the largest being JEAN AND BERNAS DOWNING CHARITABLE TRUST ($6,253,615). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $14,064,440 in grants to CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED?
- JEAN AND BERNAS DOWNING CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,253,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing