Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA LAND TRUST
MINNESOTA LAND TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,416,775 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($584,340). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Minnesota Land Trust does
Mission
The Minnesota Land Trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Minnesota Land Trust engages in three primary strategies to accomplish its mission. Protect: protect important natural habitats through conservation easements and fee title transactions. Restore: partner with governmental entities on recovering the ecological functions of the st. Louis river estuary and help landowners restore their protected lands to native habitat. Engage: invest in efforts designed to engage current and future generations of minnesotans in the great outdoors in order to maintain minnesota's great conservation ethic. See schedule o for more details.protection: the land trust works with landowners and local communities to protect and restore minnesota's cherished but increasingly threatened lands and waters primarily through establishing, creating, and monitoring perpetual conservation easements. 760 land protection projects have been completed since 1991, totaling 79,131 acres and 3,000,000 feet of shoreline. Restoration: the land trust has partnered with local, state, federal and tribal entities on restoration work in the st. Louis river estuary, a unique, 12,000-acre wetland complex between duluth, mn and superior, wi. The restoration program also helps…
$19,130,694 spentof which $24,930 as grants$35,175 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,130,694.
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 2024 to 2025, from $19M to $27M (+40%).
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 70% · 2018 58% · 2019 71% · 2020 66% · 2021 87% · 2022 83% · 2023 88% · 2024 87% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MINNESOTA LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Kris William Larson
CEO
Board chair
Pete Vorbrich
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $506k → $732k.
18 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MINNESOTA LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
MINNESOTA LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
45% 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 MINNESOTA LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 14% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 8% — 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
51% of MINNESOTA LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
73% of MINNESOTA LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
MINNESOTA LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 210 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MINNESOTA LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.3M
- Department of Agriculture$200k
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 MINNESOTA 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA 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 MINNESOTA LAND TRUST?
- MINNESOTA LAND TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,416,775 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($584,340). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $6,416,775 in grants to MINNESOTA LAND TRUST, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA LAND TRUST?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $584,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 94 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