California · Nonprofit
MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,751,197 to it, the largest being THE LAKEVIEW FOUNDATION ($2,999,890). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Marin Agricultural Land Trust does
Mission
Malt's mission is to permanently protect marin's agricultural land for agricultural use. Malt's vision for marin county is a thriving and inclusive agricultural community in a healthy and diverse natural environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation easement program:since its inception, malt has acquired 98 agricultural conservation easements covering 58,917 acres. These easements prohibit development, subdivision, and uses or practices which would be destructive to the agricultural value of the land. After the easements are recorded, owners are bound by its terms in perpetuity. Malt purchased one conservation easement totaling $800,766 during the year ended june 30, 2025. Malt staff visit each easement annually to monitor conditions and ensure compliance.
$1,757,432 spent51% of program spendingOutreach:malt's community outreach programs include a variety of hikes and events on farms and ranches throughout marin county. These events connect people with the land that malt protects, the farming families who steward the land, and the celebrated local food grown and raised on it. Malt events highlight the importance of local farmland for the economy, environment, culture, recreation, and education.
$795,493 spent23% of program spendingStewardship assistance program:malt uses incentive-based grant programs to improve stewardship of natural and working lands on easement and non-easement agricultural lands.
$923,165 spentof which $478,069 as grants$7,645 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,476,090.
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 2018 to 2019, from $32M to $27M (−15%).
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 29% · 2018 50% · 2019 32% · 2020 0% · 2021 7% · 2023 43% · 2024 67% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND 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. 6 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
Lily Verdone
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 49 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.1M.
20 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 61% · 2019 37% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 32% · 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
53% of MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
71% of MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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
MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND 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 MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST?
- MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,751,197 to it, the largest being THE LAKEVIEW FOUNDATION ($2,999,890). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $20,751,197 in grants to MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST?
- THE LAKEVIEW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,999,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 102 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