Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY
OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,875 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($24,259). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Open Land Conservancy of Chester County does
Mission
Our mission is to preserve open space. The conservancy continually seeks undeveloped land remaining in the valley creek watershed. High priority are lands contiguous to existing preserves and easements as well as environmentally sensitive areas. Board members meet regularly with landowners, developers, and township officials. Purchases are made possible by contributions from members and corporations, county, state and foundation grants, "bargain" sales, and gifts of land by owners. The preservation of open space, protecting the environment and managing our preserves for wildlife and passive recreation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization continued management of preserves in chester county, pa totaling 391 acres in fee and 93 acres in easement. The organization also provided educational work in conservation and ecology including newsletters and nature walks. The organization will continue to manage the preserves and provide educational work in future years. The organization's membership includes approximately 240 members.
$91,564 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $91,564.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.1M to $5.5M (+8%).
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.
79% of OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY’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. 0 of the last 8 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $125 → $24k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY’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
OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY: 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 OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY?
- OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,875 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($24,259). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $37,875 in grants to OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY?
- Chester County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $24,259 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY 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.
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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 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing