Connecticut · Nonprofit
MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,526 to it, the largest being The Summer Hill Foundation ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $228k
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Manchester Land Conservation Trust Inc does
Mission
To engage in and otherwise promote the benefit of the general public the preservation and conservation of the natural resources in the greater manchester, connecticut area, including water resources, swamps, woodlands and other spaces, and the plant and animal life. To engage in and otherwise promote the scientific study of local natural resources, including plants, animals, birds, and other wildlife. To use all property held or controlled by the corporation for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the general manchester area and exclusively for the conservational, recreational, educational, scientific and historical purposes for which the corporation is formed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Payment for materials and labor to maintain properties. Most labor is performed by volunteers.
$21,757 spent$41,397 earned by the program49% of program spendingPayment for materials and labor to maintain properties. Most labor is performed by volunteers.
$22,864 spent51% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,621.
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.
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 $6.6M to $8.5M (+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: 2022 63% · 2024 87% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $35k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC’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
MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
13% of MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC's funders are still giving 2 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
78% of MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$300k
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 MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC?
- MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,526 to it, the largest being The Summer Hill Foundation ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $227,526 in grants to MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC?
- The Summer Hill Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANCHESTER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 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