New York · Nonprofit
NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST
NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,692,259 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($20,543,266). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Natural Heritage Trust does
Mission
The purpose of the trust is to serve as a focal point for the receipt and administration of gifts, grants, devises and bequests of real and personal property to further conservation, outdoor recreation, historic preservation and waterfront and community revitalization.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o:the trust accomplishes its mission by accepting donations, raising funds, and through cooperative programs and projects with its agency partners: new york state office of parks, recreation and historic preservation (oprhp), department of environmental conservation (dec) and the department of state (dos). The trust also partners with a number of other public and private entities, not-for-profits and friends groups to secure and administer funding. The trust is dedicated to building and sustaining relationships with organizations that share mission compatible goals and purposes.the trust ensures the safekeeping of funds held in trust and invests funds prudently and in a manner consistent with the underlying gift, grant, or project agreement. Private funding endowed through the trust has supported a wide variety of cultural and recreational programs, capital projects and improvements, environmental and outdoor education, natural resource protection and restoration, and historic preservation throughout the state for over fifty years.
$11,636,554 spentof which $1,041,847 as grants$7,374,590 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,636,554.
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.
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 $46M to $54M (+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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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
Sally Drake
Executive director
Board chair
Kathy Moser
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $3.0M → $2.2M.
10 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 79% · 2019 36% · 2020 61% · 2021 82% · 2022 81% · 2023 37% — 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
35% of NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.
- Road Supplies and Materials$7k
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 NATURAL HERITAGE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATURAL HERITAGE 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 NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST?
- NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,692,259 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($20,543,266). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $36,692,259 in grants to NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,543,266 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 57 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