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Farmington Land Trust

Farmington Land Trust (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,121 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($128,690). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$499k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$414k
Net assets
$7.4M
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Farmington Land Trust does

Mission

The Farmington Land Trust Inc protects open space in the town of Farmington CT through the acquisition of open space, stewardship of acquired land, education of the public about the importance of open space and advocacy that ensures protection of Farmingtons natural resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organization provided stewardship of 300 Acres of open space for the benefit of the public.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

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 ($114k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 100 ($5.2M)2018 Revenue 127 ($145k) Expenses 140 ($121k) Net assets 100 ($5.2M)2019 Revenue 132 ($150k) Expenses 142 ($122k) Net assets 103 ($5.4M)2020 Revenue 341 ($389k) Expenses 116 ($100k) Net assets 112 ($5.9M)2021 Revenue 523 ($597k) Expenses 197 ($169k) Net assets 125 ($6.5M)2022 Revenue 240 ($273k) Expenses 318 ($274k) Net assets 120 ($6.3M)2023 Revenue 336 ($384k) Expenses 207 ($178k) Net assets 131 ($6.8M)2024 Revenue 303 ($345k) Expenses 216 ($186k) Net assets 137 ($7.2M)2025 Revenue 437 ($499k) Expenses 510 ($439k) Net assets 142 ($7.4M)
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Revenue (437)Expenses (510)Net assets (142)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 2020 to 2021, from $5.9M to $6.5M (+11%).

$5.2M
$5.2M
$5.4M
$5.9M
$6.5M
$6.3M
$6.9M
$7.2M
$7.4M
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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

109% of Farmington Land Trust’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
$24k
’18
$28k
’19
$289k
’20
$428k
’21
−$300
’22
$206k
’23
$160k
’24
$60k
’25
4.3
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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Listed141515171414161617
Joined·+9+0+4+2+4+3+2+2
No longer listed·80254121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $6k → $120k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Farmington Land Trust’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

Farmington Land Trust has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

63% 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 Farmington Land Trust.

31%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 50% · 2022 62% · 2023 25% — 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

50% of Farmington Land Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

53% of Farmington Land Trust'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 $194k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
CT
NM
NC
FL

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

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’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Farmington Land Trust runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Farmington Land Trust receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.

State$200k
25
26
Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$200k

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 Farmington Land Trust

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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 18%Fundraising 19%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Farmington Land Trust: 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 Farmington Land Trust?
Farmington Land Trust (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,121 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($128,690). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Farmington Land Trust have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $414,121 in grants to Farmington Land Trust, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Farmington Land Trust?
HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $128,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Farmington Land Trust 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.

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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 15 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