Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC
FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,330,998 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($430,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Franklin Land Trust Inc does
Mission
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2025, flt assisted in the protection of 4 properties totaling 83 acres. At the close of fiscal year 2025, flt had completed 466 total projects, totalling 35,610 acres of conserved land throughout 36 towns in western massachusetts.flt's accomplishments in permanently protecting these lands benefits the public by providing wildlife habitat, clean air and water, productive farms and woodlands, and recreational opportunities. Support from flt members, donors, and foundations is critical to conserving these vital resources for future generations.
$1,366,528 spent$286,999 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,366,528.
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 $4.9M to $6.0M (+22%).
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: 2017 6% · 2020 42% · 2021 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC’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 9 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
Mary Lynn Sabourin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $230k → $203k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 29% · 2019 31% · 2020 29% · 2021 20% · 2022 57% · 2023 19% — 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
59% of FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC'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
61% of FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record — $219k federal, $3.6M state.
- Department of Agriculture$219k
- (NN) INFRASTRUCTURE:$2.1M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.5M
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 FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Massachusetts Woodlands Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANKLIN LAND TRUST 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC?
- FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,330,998 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($430,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,330,998 in grants to FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 42 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing