Arizona · Nonprofit
CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY
CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being STEVEN C LEUTHOLD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $321k
What Chiricahua Land Conservancy does
Mission
The mission of the Chiricahua Land Conservancy clc is to conserve healthy diverse ecosystems within the upper san simon valley and surrounding mountains for the benefit of current and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Acquiring and stewarding land and conservation easements: one of our primary aims is to acquire ecologically and socially important land and conservation easements to protect in perpetuity for public benefit. Clc acquired its first conservation property in 2024 via donation from the owner, and we expect to acquire through donation and purchase several additional properties and conservation easements in 2026. In 2025 we spent funds on "due diligence" (title research, environmental assessments, real estate transaction costs, legal fees, etc.) for these potential acquisitions and for stewardship of our existing property.
$8,557 spent55% of program spendingCommunity outreach and education: our mission is to work with private landowners who want to conserve their lands long-term to provide open space, soil and water protection, and wildlife habitat. We also cooperate with other nonprofits, like the friends of cave creek canyon (foccc), to provide environmental education opportunities. In 2025, we completed a web re-design, updated and re-printed our postcard flyer, produced a new conservation easement brochure, staffed tables at a heritage days event in rodeo and the foccc garden party in portal, co-sponsored several educational events on our new preserve, and met with dozens of landowners to discuss how we can help them meet their conservation goals for their properties.
$4,730 spent30% of program spendingBuilding organizational capacity: building organizational capacity to better serve the public was a major focus in 2025. As a new land trust established in 2021 with no staff and an all-volunteer board of directors, we invested in training seminars sponsored by the nonprofit land trust alliance.
$2,295 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,582.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $279k to $321k (+15%).
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.
97% of CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% 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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY’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
CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 60% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY: 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 CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY?
- CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being STEVEN C LEUTHOLD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $73,500 in grants to CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY?
- STEVEN C LEUTHOLD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHIRICAHUA LAND CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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