Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC
NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,010,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($990,229). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Native Plant Trust Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Horticulture - the horticulture program, based at garden in the woods and nasami farm, focuses on the management of garden in the woods, native plant garden design, ecological horticulture, and the production of native new england plants. Garden in the woods experience welcomed 19,322 visitors, a 9% increase over the prior year, in its 6-month open season. Horticultural staff added 13,722 plants and 57 species to the garden in 2024, all grown from seed; 64% of these were sourced from wild populations with permission from deed holders. Seed production plots with five species, established in 2022, yielded their third seed harvest. Nursery staff at nasami farm produced over 51,00 plants from seed, representing 177 species of local native plants. Combined, garden in the woods and nasami farm volunteers logged 856 hours of service.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $22M (+17%).
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 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 8% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 7 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 23 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $278k → $664k.
17 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 PLANT TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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 PLANT TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
53% 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 PLANT TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 36% · 2020 37% · 2021 24% · 2022 47% · 2023 23% — 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
54% of NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
51% of NATIVE PLANT TRUST 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 $2.5M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record — $722k federal, $317k state.
- Department of the Interior$590k
- Department of Agriculture$133k
- MA$242k
- VT$75k
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 PLANT 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIVE PLANT TRUST 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC?
- NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,010,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($990,229). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $5,010,714 in grants to NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $990,229 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVE PLANT TRUST 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 84 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