Michigan · Nonprofit
LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY
LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY (Michigan) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,260,231 to it, the largest being THE CARLS FOUNDATION ($682,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Legacy Land Conservancy does
Mission
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2024-2025 Legacy Land Conservancy protected an additional 701 acres of farmland and natural areas through 6 conservation easements; bringing our total over a 50-year history to more than 11,243 acres of land protected. In total we hold 5,363 acres in conservation easements of which there are 110, and have protected, both solely and in partnerships, 11,243 acres through 170 projects. Protecting these lands safeguards access to clean water for drinking and recreation, conserves natural spaces to support public recreation, protects wildlife habitat, mitigates carbon release, and supports the continued vitality of our local working farms. It is important that we continue to increase the pace of conservation in order to secure a land base for future generations and enhance our region's quality of place.
$4,016,040 spent$185,825 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,016,040.
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 $9.6M to $12M (+28%).
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 9% · 2018 24% · 2019 12% · 2020 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 7% · 2023 32% · 2024 4% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY’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. 3 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
Diana Kern
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $351k → $194k.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 41% · 2019 41% · 2020 45% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 41% — 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
54% of LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
95% of LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $595k 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
LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY: 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 LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY?
- LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY (Michigan) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,260,231 to it, the largest being THE CARLS FOUNDATION ($682,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $3,260,231 in grants to LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY?
- THE CARLS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $682,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 41 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