Virginia · Nonprofit
NEW RIVER LAND TRUST
NEW RIVER LAND TRUST (Virginia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,688 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT ($277,446). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What New River Land Trust does
Mission
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Each year the New River Land Trust, in partnership with the virginia outdoors foundation, other state and federal government agencies, and other conservation organization, works with landowners from elliston in montgomery county west to cox's chapel in grayson county to save large tracts of land and family farms in the new river region. A conservation easement is a voluntary agreement by a landowner that protects his or her land from intensive development in perpetuity. Conservation easements protect working forest lands and vital regional water resources for human, wildlife, and aquatic species. The landowner continues to own the farmland or forest and can pursue all traditional uses of the land, such as agricultural and timbering. In exchange for protecting the land's conservation values, the owner receives generous state and federal tax incentives. In 2020, the New River Land Trust helped three landowners with 716 acres under conservation easements and 229 acres in fee simple conservation projects. The easements included a state funded project on extremely high value forest with notable water, natural heritage, and scenic resources in giles county. The land trust did two fee…
$224,425 spent86% of program spendingPublic outreach: the New River Land Trust provides outreach, education, facilitation, and implementation services to landowners with an interest in conserving rural land and its associated natural and/or cultural resources. We have a particular focus on the new river region, although over the years we have worked with people out of state and in many virginia counties.
$35,129 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $259,554.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $1.9M (+85%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 6% · 2020 20% · 2021 6% · 2022 61% · 2023 61% · 2024 40% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of NEW RIVER LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $84k → $78k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 NEW RIVER LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
NEW RIVER LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 NEW RIVER LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 82% · 2019 47% · 2020 49% · 2021 62% · 2022 77% · 2023 20% — 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
46% of NEW RIVER 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
71% of NEW RIVER LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NEW RIVER LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NEW RIVER LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of the Interior$100k
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 NEW RIVER 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW RIVER LAND TRUST?
- NEW RIVER LAND TRUST (Virginia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,688 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT ($277,446). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW RIVER LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,058,688 in grants to NEW RIVER LAND TRUST, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW RIVER LAND TRUST?
- VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $277,446 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW RIVER LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 22 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