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LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN

LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN (Mississippi) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,442,517 to it, the largest being ANGELA J BOWEN CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION ($2,630,570). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.5M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$24M
10/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain does

Mission

To conserve, promote, and protect the open spaces and green places of ecological cultural or scenic significance in the counties of the mississippi coastal plain.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To conserve, promote, and protect the open spaces and green places of ecological cultural or scenic significance in the counties of the mississippi coastal plain.

    $411,449 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $411,449.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($794k) Net assets 100 ($31M)2018 Revenue 45 ($539k) Expenses 88 ($700k) Net assets 100 ($31M)2019 Revenue 257 ($3.0M) Expenses 95 ($756k) Net assets 107 ($33M)2020 Revenue 127 ($1.5M) Expenses 162 ($1.3M) Net assets 70 ($22M)2021 Revenue 49 ($576k) Expenses 97 ($772k) Net assets 69 ($22M)2022 Revenue 48 ($566k) Expenses 103 ($819k) Net assets 69 ($21M)2023 Revenue 87 ($1.0M) Expenses 59 ($470k) Net assets 71 ($22M)2024 Revenue 214 ($2.5M) Expenses 70 ($557k) Net assets 77 ($24M)
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Revenue (214)Expenses (70)Net assets (77)Peer revenue range

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 $34M to $22M (−34%).

$31M
$31M
$34M
$22M
$22M
$22M
$22M
$24M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 63% · 2019 15% · 2020 72% · 2021 65% · 2022 102% · 2023 67% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$393k
’17
−$162k
’18
$2.3M
’19
$224k
’20
−$196k
’21
−$253k
’22
$562k
’23
$2.0M
’24
3.8
months of
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

Sara M Araoz

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed1413141311111112
Joined·+2+1+6+1+7+2+3
No longer listed·3073722
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $104k → $12k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN’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

LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 87% · 2019 47% · 2020 49% · 2021 40% · 2022 65% · 2023 83% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 7 states in all.

WA
NY
AR
SC
DC
MS
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin78% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.

Federal$3.8M
grants $3.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$3.1M
  • Department of the Interior$664k

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 LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN

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In Mississippi

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 20%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MS

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN?
LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN (Mississippi) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,442,517 to it, the largest being ANGELA J BOWEN CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION ($2,630,570). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,442,517 in grants to LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN?
ANGELA J BOWEN CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,630,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 12 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