Connecticut · Nonprofit
Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc
Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,290,153 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($3,635,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inclocal
- Watersheds United Vermont Incportfolio match
- Connecticut Bar Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc’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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $464k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 39% · 2020 52% · 2021 67% · 2022 72% · 2023 86% — 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
30% of Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Community Foundation of Middlesex County InclocalCT · funds 56 organizations near you
- Watersheds United Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fields Pond Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alexander Host Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Summer Hill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John T and Jane a Wiederhold Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Middlesex United Way InclocalCT · funds 28 organizations near you
- Essex Foundation InclocalCT · funds 10 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $817k on record — $30k federal, $787k state.
- Department of Agriculture$30k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$775k
- State Aid Grants$5k
- sponsorship$4k
- Management Consultant Services$2k
- Fellowships & Stipends$400
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 Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc?
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,290,153 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($3,635,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $4,290,153 in grants to Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc?
- THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 22funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing