Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LIVING LANDS TRUST
LIVING LANDS TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,128,472 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($6,823,472). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Living Lands Trust does
Mission
Living Lands Trust's mission is to protect land and constructed spaces from the speculative marketplace. Living Lands Trust's stewardship redefines ownership, use, and community within the framework of association and cultural practice. We recognize entrepreneurial destiny paths. Living Lands Trust makes it possible for biodynamic and regenerative farmers, ranchers, and other social entrepreneurs to access productive de-commodified places. Living Lands Trust's sustaining purpose is to foster the development of place-based regional economies that reflect the richness of a just and human culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Living Lands Trust continued its work to protect and steward lands and places that ennoble the human being and the earth. Our wisconsin woods property continues to be an important place for quiet contemplation, or for educating children about nature. We also remain grateful for the opportunity to work with thoughtful property owners, communities, and other public and private partners to protect the sanctuaries of the future. These places serve as important sources of physical and spiritual nourishment. In support and furtherance of our mission, we assist with and carry out all manner of land program activities, such as: conservation, stewardship, restoration, regeneration, renewal, protection, evaluation, planning, access, disposition, transition, and transfer.
$571,411 spentof which $22,000 as grants$408,943 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $571,411.
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 $12M to $21M (+74%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of LIVING LANDS TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
David Outman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.8M.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 LIVING LANDS 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
LIVING LANDS TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 LIVING LANDS TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 95% · 2023 91% — 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
75% of LIVING LANDS TRUST's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
96% of LIVING LANDS 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 $265k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M 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
LIVING LANDS TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIVING LANDS 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- High Hope Ranch LLC · disregarded
- Texas Living Lands LLC · disregarded
- Rsf Social Finance Inc · exempt
- Biodynamic Demeter Alliance Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING LANDS 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 LIVING LANDS TRUST?
- LIVING LANDS TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,128,472 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($6,823,472). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVING LANDS TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $7,128,472 in grants to LIVING LANDS TRUST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING LANDS TRUST?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,823,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING LANDS 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.
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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing