Tennessee · Nonprofit
FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY
FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,375 to it, the largest being OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ($725,438). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Foothills Land Conservancy does
Mission
Foothills Land Conservancy is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the lands and environments of the southern appalachian region and promoting the character of the land for the benefit of the general public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Acquisition of land and conservation easements in the southern appalachian region through donation by land owners whose goal it is to preserve and protect the natural and environmental attributes of their property. To monitor, inspect, handle violations and enforce conservation easements.
$1,664,753 spentof which $940,000 as grants$155,073 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,664,753.
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.
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 $12M to $18M (+47%).
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.
51% of FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
William Clabough
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $190k → $27k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Flc Properties Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of FOOTHILLS 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
FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 86% · 2019 88% · 2020 72% · 2021 99% · 2022 43% · 2023 62% — 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
43% of FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOOTHILLS 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Flc Properties Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOTHILLS 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 FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY?
- FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,375 to it, the largest being OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ($725,438). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,008,375 in grants to FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY?
- OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $725,438 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOTHILLS LAND CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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