Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST
LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,608 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($220,225). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $279k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Lincoln Land Conservation Trust does
Mission
To preserve the rural character of lincoln, to acquire and maintain undeveloped lands in town, to develop trails therein, to establish sound conservation practices, and to encourage preservation, enjoyment, education and scientific study of lincoln's natural areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: llct educational events in 2025 included 32 in-person trail walks, workshops, or other outdoor land-based programming, five virtual or in-person lectures and six events for families and children. All were free and open to the public.the llct walks included five spring birding walks, a moth walk, a plant identification walk, and a fern identification walk. Llct also expanded its popular noticing walk series to include six walks in the spring and eight in the fall.lectures included talks on recent research on the role of forests in carbon sequestration, protecting the forest canopy, sustainable planting for the future, and the effect of light pollution on wildlife. Also, leila philips spoke about her recently published book, beaverland.family events included three children's programs on water cycles, insects and leaf identification, a vernal pool walk, a nature-themed scavenger hunt, and a planting craft and story time at the lincoln public library.llct continued to sell its current trail map and its two books: the nature of lincoln and a guide to conservation land in lincoln. The pocket naturalist guide wild about lincoln was reprinted and distributed to members,…
$86,316 spent$2,971 earned by the program34% of program spendingStewardship: llct staff worked with volunteers, fieldwork assistants, and town of lincoln conservation staff to manage and maintain deeded conservation land and over 80 miles of public trails. Llct staff also monitored llct's deeded conservation land and conservation restrictions, as well as conservation land and restrictions owned or held by the town of lincoln.trail maintenance included removing downed trees blocking trails, pruning vegetation, and repairing duckboards and bridges. In addition, new duckboards and bridges were constructed where needed, including at the beaver pond and farrington conservation properties. A new boat launch was constructed at beaver pond, and new water bars were installed in an area of flint's pond to prevent erosion.llct worked with volunteers, summer staff and town of lincoln conservation staff to remove and control invasive plants, including garlic mustard, water chestnut, buckthorn, burning bush and japanese knotweed. Throughout the spring and summer, llct staff and volunteers monitored activity at bluebird boxes in chapman pasture, the pollinator meadow, and stony brook south.work also continued on the pollinator action plan. Llct staff,…
$45,751 spent18% of program spendingAcquisition: a generous lincoln resident donated a 1.78 acre building lot on page road (parcel id 145 13 0) to llct in december 2025.
$121,062 spentof which $100,000 as grants48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $253,129.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $1.9M (−17%).
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST’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
Geoff Mcgean
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Stevenson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $42k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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: $109k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rural Land Foundation of Lincoln). These are real filings, and they are not money LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION 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
LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 99% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 54% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% — 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
80% of LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
88% of LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION 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 $40k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST 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
Organizations like LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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
- Rural Land Foundation of Lincoln · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST?
- LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,608 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($220,225). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $329,608 in grants to LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $220,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 16 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