Ohio · Nonprofit
KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST
KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,081 to it, the largest being WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($73,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $634k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Killbuck Watershed Land Trust does
Mission
To acquire and hold agricultural and conservation easements, encourage land preservation and assist individuals in creating agriculture andconservation easements. During 2025 the organization incurred approximately 432875 dollars restoring the preserves wetland property the work supported wetland restoration wildlife habitat water quality and long term conservation of the property
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
At the end of the 2025 tax year the Killbuck Watershed Land Trust held a total of 87 easements totaling 10612 acres five properties were owned by the organization one property of 114 acres is woods and native prairie and four properties of wetlands and woods make up of 27 acres 157 acres 194 acres and 91 acres during the 2025 tax year three new easements were received none of the easements which are currently held by the organization fall into any of the following categories encumberment of a golf course within or adjacent to residential development or housing subdivisions acquired under purchase of real property from charitable organization in notice 2004 41 all 87 current easements were periodically reviewed and monitored by various board members board members spend an average of
$432,875 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $432,875.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+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.
90% of KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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
Tate Emerson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $23k → $29k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 KILLBUCK WATERSHED 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
KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 39% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of KILLBUCK WATERSHED 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 $74k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KILLBUCK WATERSHED 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 Ohio
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
91%
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 KILLBUCK WATERSHED 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 KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST?
- KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,081 to it, the largest being WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($73,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $207,081 in grants to KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST?
- WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $73,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 8 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