Connecticut · Nonprofit
KENT LAND TRUST INC
KENT LAND TRUST INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,147 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($95,360). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $336k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $524k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Kent Land Trust Inc does
Mission
To promote, for the benefit of the general public, the conservation of land and water natural resources principally in, but not limited to, the town of kent, connecticut.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation property stewardship: the organization is a leader in enhancing public access to outdoor recreation, supporting scientific research and analysis to inform educational programming and land management, and providing excellent stewardship of its conservation properties through restoration of native wildlife and plant habitat. It maintains several miles of recreational and nature trails on its preserves. The organization monitors and enforces the conservation restrictions on its properties in accordance with its obligations under federal and state law.
$192,537 spent60% of program spendingConservation education and outreach: the land trust conducts public education, outreach, and community service events throughout the year, drawing on the support of community volunteers to organize hikes, scout service projects, educational presentations, and other events. It typically hosts a town-wide community conservation picnic with family-oriented activities and displays encouraging conservation. It publishes an e-newsletter and shares conservation information via social media. Kent land trust leases property to a local organic vegetable farmer and manages a community garden on land trust land. An active partner of the chamber of commerce and to kents municipal commissions, the land trust promotes food security through donations of fresh produce to the local food bank, and hosts community concerts and the local farmers market on its land adjoining the village center.
$100,862 spent32% of program spendingConservation acquisition: the organization protects conservation resources including water, wetlands, forest, and farmland through direct ownership and conservation easements.
$26,120 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,519.
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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $15M (+13%).
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 1% · 2022 6% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of KENT LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Connie Manes
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Cl Hallows
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $52k → $56k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $141k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kent Land Trust Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KENT LAND TRUST INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KENT LAND TRUST INC’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
KENT 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
37% 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 KENT LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 20% — 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
58% of KENT LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
KENT LAND TRUST INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
KENT LAND TRUST INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding KENT LAND TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$35k
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 KENT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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
- Kent Land Trust Foundation Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENT 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 KENT LAND TRUST INC?
- KENT LAND TRUST INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,147 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($95,360). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENT LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $524,147 in grants to KENT LAND TRUST INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENT LAND TRUST INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $95,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENT LAND TRUST 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.
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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 30 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