South Carolina · Nonprofit
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,790,023 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($833,000). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Lowcountry Land Trust Inc does
Mission
To protect land and water forever, nurture relationships between people and place, and connect conservation to community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land protection: during fy25, lowcountry land trust participated in fifteen conservation transactions. This includes ten new conservation easements protecting 1,295 acres, four fee-simple purchases protecting 146 acres, and one deed restriction on a .7-acre property. Fy25 land protection projects expanded across coastal south carolina, from the ace basin to the santee basin. On the outskirts of walterboro, a 561- acre tract was placed under a conservation easement, demonstrating the commitment of private landowners, nonprofits, and state government agencies to preserving cultural history and natural resources. The project helped create a contiguous protected landscape in colleton county, contributing to the quickly growing area's ecological integrity and aligning with lowcountry land trust's recently identified high-resilience zone near cottageville. In addition to acquiring 94 acres of vital farmland on johns island that will soon become publicly accessible via walking trails, field trips, farm stands, and educational programs about sustainable farming practices and land stewardship, lowcountry land trust bought, protected, and transferred three properties for community use and…
$9,849,525 spentof which $4,991,651 as grants$162,935 earned by the program95% of program spendingLand stewardship: in fy25, lowcountry land trust monitored 100% of its over 550 protected properties, including conservation easements, deed restrictions, and fee simple projects. Lowcountry land trust staff utilizes various monitoring methods, including on-the-ground, drone, satellite, and aerial monitoring, to meet its stewardship obligations. Lowcountry land trust staff continue to communicate with landowners and property managers during monitoring visits as well as throughout the year to maintain strong working relationships and provide them with relevant educational, land management, and conservation easement resources.
$525,246 spent5% of program spendingCommunity outreach: lowcountry land trust, as part of its soul of the lowcountry program, hosted a series of community outreach events in fy25 that encouraged all ages of environmental enthusiasts to engage in conservation. Free opportunities to immerse oneself in nature and learn about the importance of land protection and stewardship included events such as cleanups and yoga at the future angel oak preserve, wildlife samplings and oyster reef builds with the scdnr, nature walks and birding outings on protected and stewarded sites, and a kayak cleanup along the banks of the land trust's first-ever protected property. The organization also convened over 50 local conservation partners to host its third-annual lowcountry earth month, raising awareness about the various conservation initiatives/methods in the region.
$13,171 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,374,771.
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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $30M (+35%).
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% · 2019 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 11% · 2023 42% · 2024 18% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $400k → $1.3M.
20 of 96 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 LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 62% · 2019 23% · 2020 41% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 18% — 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
54% of LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $929k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 45 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $124k on record.
- Department of the Interior$124k
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 LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 19 related entities
- Wadmacon LLC · disregarded
- Bacons Bridge LLC · disregarded
- Ashem LLC · disregarded
- Angel Oak LLC · disregarded
- Quemby Barony LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC?
- LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,790,023 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($833,000). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $5,790,023 in grants to LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC?
- GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $833,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 96 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