New Hampshire · Nonprofit
CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY
CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,307 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($231,197). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $728k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $475k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Chocorua Lake Conservancy does
Mission
To preserve the ecosystem and pristine waters of chocorua lake, protect the natural resources and conservation values of the chocorua lake basin, maintain trails on mount chocorua and surrounding lands, and provide welcoming access to chocorua lake for nearby residents, visitors, and future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public lake access, management of conservation properties & water quality monitoring - managed 800 acres across 17 properties owned by Chocorua Lake Conservancy (clc) in the chocorua lake basin, including three public lake access recreational areas open to all and visited more than 100,000 people yearly. Staff inspected these areas twice-daily, seven days a week, from may through october to keep them clean of trash. Provided three portable toilets for use by visitors. Recruited, trained, and managed 90 volunteers to help maintain clc public access areas - spreading wood chips to protect tree roots, removing invasive plants, creating wildlife habitat, mulching native plantings, and maintaining 24 miles of hiking and walking trails on mount chocorua, mount paugus, and clc conservation lands. Monitored water quality in chocorua lake bi-weekly from may to october.
$91,607 spent20% of program spendingEducation, outreach, and membership - organized more than 50 educational and community outreach events attended by over 1,400 people. Engaged 170 volunteers who contributing 1,400 hours toward fulfilling clc's mission. Held outdoor nature explorations and workshops on diverse topics in ecology and natural history, including regular programs aimed at children 3 to 9 years of age. Published two print newsletters sharing information about clc's work and stewardship of the chocorua lake basin, along with monthly e-news to 1,900 subscribers. Held 'winter fest' community outreach event attended by 140 people. Broadened base of financial support to 706 households and local businesses across 81 new hampshire towns and 32 states.
$88,490 spent$14,416 earned by the program20% of program spendingLand conservation visited 94 privately-owned properties covering 2,500 acres protected by clc perpetual covenants, conservation easements, and deed restrictions. Trained 20 volunteer land stewards and monitors to help maintain 17 clc-owned conservation properties. During 2024, clc successfully implemented the first phase of a shoreline restoration project on the eastern side of chocorua lake. This project will prevent erosion and increase resiliency against intense storm events. Also during 2024, clc began the process of repairing the 63-year-old concrete dam at the outflow of little chocorua lake.
$273,547 spent60% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $453,644.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.3M to $3.7M (+13%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $16k → $115k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 CHOCORUA LAKE 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
CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 66% · 2019 74% · 2020 48% · 2021 75% · 2022 66% · 2023 35% — 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
29% of CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
77% of CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY'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 $111k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHOCORUA LAKE 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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
- Chocorua Lake Conservation Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY?
- CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,307 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($231,197). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $475,307 in grants to CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $231,197 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOCORUA LAKE CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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