Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST
LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,438,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust does
Mission
To improve the quality of life for the people of lowell through education and through the creation, conservation, and preservation of parks, open spaces, and special places.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The trust assists in the preservation of the historic & natural beauties in the city of lowell through education of the public and outdoor activities.
$966,117 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $966,117.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $3.4M (+66%).
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 10% · 2018 4% · 2019 10% · 2020 7% · 2021 12% · 2022 30% · 2023 7% · 2024 15% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jane Calvin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $76k → $261k.
5 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 39% · 2019 57% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 96% · 2023 48% — 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
38% of LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
90% of LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k 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
LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LOWELL PARKS & 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION 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 LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST?
- LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,438,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,438,412 in grants to LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWELL PARKS & 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.
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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 32 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