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CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND

CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,665 to it, the largest being THE II CORINTHIANS 9-7 FOUNDATION - RBC TRUST ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$116k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$94k
Net assets
$5.0M
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Cheshire Land Preservation Fund does

Mission

Promote and encourage the preservation of open space in southern chester county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote and encourage the preservation of open space in southern chester county through the acquisition, management, and leasing of rural or undeveloped land threatened by excessive development

    $96,237 spent$64,791 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $96,237.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($367k) Expenses 100 ($187k) Net assets 100 ($4.4M)2018 Revenue 49 ($181k) Expenses 41 ($77k) Net assets 106 ($4.6M)2019 Revenue 35 ($127k) Expenses 39 ($72k) Net assets 107 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 40 ($148k) Expenses 43 ($80k) Net assets 109 ($4.8M)2021 Revenue 30 ($112k) Expenses 44 ($83k) Net assets 109 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue 44 ($161k) Expenses 37 ($70k) Net assets 111 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 33 ($122k) Expenses 34 ($63k) Net assets 113 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 30 ($110k) Expenses 31 ($57k) Net assets 114 ($5.0M)2025 Revenue 32 ($116k) Expenses 54 ($100k) Net assets 114 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (32)Expenses (54)Net assets (114)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.1M to $4.7M (−7%).

$4.9M
$5.1M
$4.7M
$4.8M
$4.8M
$4.9M
$4.9M
$5.0M
$5.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

14% of CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,639 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$180k
’17
$105k
’18
$55k
’19
$68k
’20
$29k
’21
$91k
’22
$59k
’23
$53k
’24
$15k
’25
142
months of
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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $39k → $52k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND’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

CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

36% 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 CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND.

53%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 100% · 2022 96% — 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

92% of CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’22
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve142.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

30%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND?
CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,665 to it, the largest being THE II CORINTHIANS 9-7 FOUNDATION - RBC TRUST ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $93,665 in grants to CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND?
THE II CORINTHIANS 9-7 FOUNDATION - RBC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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