Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST
LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,844,271 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,359,990). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Lancaster Farmland Trust does
Mission
To vigorously accelerate the permanent protection and stewardship of farmland.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lancaster Farmland Trust preserves and protects productive agricultural land; promotes good conservation practices through outreach and education; and supports and encourages public policy and actions that contribute to farmland preservation and good stewardship of the land. During the current year, Lancaster Farmland Trust permanently preserved 18 farms and 1,002 acres of the most productive, non-irrigated land in the united states. In addition, the trust was able to educate 1,570 farmers in the current year through educational workshops to instruct farmers in best management practices; events; and individual farm visits to promote good practices and assist in the implementation. The trust also provided education and outreach to municipal officials about policies that support preservation.
$8,738,843 spent$646,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,738,843.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.5M to $9.7M (+30%).
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 18% · 2018 13% · 2019 10% · 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2022 10% · 2023 19% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of LANCASTER FARMLAND 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.
Board chair
Lisa Horn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $671k → $1.4M.
17 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 32% · 2019 47% · 2020 30% · 2021 51% · 2022 40% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST'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
LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LANCASTER FARMLAND 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LANCASTER FARMLAND 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 LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST?
- LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,844,271 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,359,990). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $9,844,271 in grants to LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,359,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 48 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