New Jersey · Nonprofit
MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,881,705 to it, the largest being MONTECALVO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($406,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Monmouth Conservation Foundation does
Mission
Monmouth Conservation Foundation was organized in 1977 by a group of citizens for the following purposes: to acquire, hold, preserve and protect the open lands, historic areas and park and recreational areas of monmouth county, new jersey. Together with any buildings located thereon; to solicit and receive, including but not limited to gifts, bequests, legacies, conservation easements and conveyances of real and personal property in furtherance of the purposes aforesaid; to apply for, receive and administer grants from private and public sources, federal, state, and county in furtherance of the purposes aforesaid; and to exercise all the rights, powers, and duties conferred on non-profit corporations under the laws of the state of new jersey.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Land preservation highlights in august 2019, after years of negotiations, mcf and the nj department of enviromental protection's green acres program acquired 190-acres of natural habitat as an addition to allaire state park. Known as the mcdowell, the price tag on this rare, undeveloped tract in wall township cost 3,819,000. In september and october 2019 mcf preserved two farms located in colts neck, known as the degroot and druesne farms . Consisting of a collective 60 acres, this farmland is now forever protected from development into as many as 30 homes. These farmland preservation projects totaled 2.1 million and were made possible with the assistamce of colts neck township, monmouth county, and the nj department of agriculture. In november 2019 - acres, slated for a 9-home development, was purchased by neptune township with the help of the nj department of environmental protection's green acres program. Formerly known as the oliver/shark river hills estates property, this land which was acquired for 1,255,000 is surrounded by a residental area and adjacent to access to the shark river and a public maria, will be transformed into a neighborhood park. Advocacy highlights mcf…
$547,499 spent$4,160 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $547,499.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $11M (+180%).
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 22% · 2020 61% · 2021 23% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% · 2024 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
107% of MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’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. 3 of the last 8 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
William Kastning
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $54k → $212k.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.7M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 24% · 2019 46% · 2020 30% · 2021 49% · 2022 23% · 2023 47% — 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
30% of MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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 MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
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 MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: 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 MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,881,705 to it, the largest being MONTECALVO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($406,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $1,881,705 in grants to MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- MONTECALVO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $406,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 56 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