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NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC

NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,534,508 to it, the largest being Common Counsel Foundation ($5,060,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$6.5M
Revenue FY2024
34
Funders on record
$14M
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
11/34 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin91% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve55.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)82% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($322k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($641k)2020 Revenue 23 ($75k) Expenses 466 ($79k) Net assets 99 ($637k)2021 Revenue 420 ($1.4M) Expenses 403 ($68k) Net assets 414 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 1813 ($5.8M) Expenses 1240 ($209k) Net assets 1292 ($8.3M)2023 Revenue 1211 ($3.9M) Expenses 2577 ($435k) Net assets 1847 ($12M)2024 Revenue 2008 ($6.5M) Expenses 3272 ($552k) Net assets 2791 ($18M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (2008)Expenses (3272)Net assets (2791)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$305k
19
$4k
20
$1.3M
21
$5.6M
22
$3.5M
23
$5.9M
24
55
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $138k → $6.2M.

10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)94% 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 NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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

NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% 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 NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC.

37%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 26% · 2022 87% · 2023 80%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

50% of NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

94% of NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $826k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 8 states.

ME
VT
WA
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

20
21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $724k on record.

State$724k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$524k
  • (NN) INFRASTRUCTURE:$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 NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 31%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC?
NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,534,508 to it, the largest being Common Counsel Foundation ($5,060,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $13,534,508 in grants to NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC?
Common Counsel Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIVE LAND CONSERVANCY INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 34funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing