New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Five Rivers Conservation Trust
Five Rivers Conservation Trust (New Hampshire) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,323 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($344,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $774k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $779k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Five Rivers Conservation Trust does
Mission
To sustain healthy communities by connecting people to nature and conserving land forever in the capital region of new hampshire. We envision productive farms and forests, clean water, thriving wildlife habitats, and climate-resilient landscapes throughout our regioncontinued on schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Five rivers conserves land by land acquisition or perpetual conservation easements. Conservation is often achieved by donation from the owner of the property, but may also include payment to the landowner for part or all of the value of the property. In fy25, conservation efforts protected five properties totaling 730 acres layne property 134 acres, dunbarton by donation of a conservation easement, potter farm 90 acres, concord by purchase of a conservation easement, foster meadow farm 90 acres, boscawen by donation of a conservation easement, joseph and barbara colby conservation area 309 acres, boscawen by donation of a conservation easement, and blue moon berry farm 106 acres, warner by purchase of a conservation easement. Five Rivers Conservation Trust conserved properties include 82 conservation easements backup holder on an additional 4 easements and 3 properties owned. Five rivers ensures the land remains conserved by monitoring all conserved properties at least annually. Five rivers also uses conserved properties for public education and conservation.
$340,153 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $340,153.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $2.7M to $3.0M (+12%).
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: 2022 13% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Short
Executive director
Board chair
Jamie Robertson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $82k → $63k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 Five Rivers Conservation 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
Five Rivers Conservation Trust leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 Five Rivers Conservation Trust.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 96% · 2019 46% · 2020 90% · 2021 63% · 2022 64% · 2023 53% — broadly stable.
“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
43% of Five Rivers Conservation Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
54% of Five Rivers Conservation 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 $358k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k 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.
Organizations like Five Rivers Conservation 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 Five Rivers Conservation 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 Five Rivers Conservation Trust?
- Five Rivers Conservation Trust (New Hampshire) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,323 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($344,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Five Rivers Conservation Trust have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $779,323 in grants to Five Rivers Conservation Trust, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Five Rivers Conservation Trust?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $344,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Five Rivers Conservation Trust 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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