Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST
NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,097,231 to it, the largest being OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ($406,165). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $603k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What North Branch Land Trust does
Mission
The mission of nblt is to partner with landowners, communities, and stakeholders to conserve and care for northeastern pennsylvania's lands and waters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land conservation nblt holds 58 conservation easements on over 11,400 acres of natural land in bradford, columbia, lackawanna, luzerne, sullivan, susquehanna, wayne and wyoming counties of northeastern pennsylvania. Each easement requires annual monitoring to determine if any violations of restrictions provided for under the conservation easements have occurred on the land. Fee-owned lands nblt owns and manages several properties in our service area for the benefit of the public and for the protection of rare and endangered plant and animal species. Most of these lands are open to the public from dawn to dusk for passive recreation activities while some lands are closed or open by appointment only due to the fragile nature of the ecosystem found there. The land trust welcomes and accepts gifts of conservation land and other property providing that all land trust policies and procedures governing the acquisition of the land or other property are adhered to.
$364,875 spent100% of program spendingTransfer lands North Branch Land Trust will acquire land from time to time and transfer the land to a like-minded conservation organization. The trust will do this because sometimes other conservation organizations are better suited to manage the conservation values found on that land. During the prior year, the land trust received grant awards from the pennsylania department of conservation and natural resources for the acquisition of 1400 acres of natural lands in newport and hanover townships, luzerne county pennsylvania. The land was purchased and transferred to the bureau of forestry. The project protects endangered species and habitat, a cold water fishery, and scenic mountain highlands.
Outreach and education nblt sets out to ensure that the communities in which it operates understand and value the conservation of private and public land by broadly educating the community about the importance of land conservation and smart growth strategies.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $364,875.
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 $7.2M to $10M (+46%).
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 82% · 2018 39% · 2019 5% · 2020 17% · 2021 56% · 2022 10% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of NORTH BRANCH 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. 3 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 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $75k → $74k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 NORTH BRANCH 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
NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
57% 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 NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 88% · 2019 24% · 2020 68% · 2021 35% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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
53% of NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST's revenue fell 58% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST?
- NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,097,231 to it, the largest being OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ($406,165). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,097,231 in grants to NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST?
- OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $406,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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