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ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC

ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,225,646 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($730,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$8.9M
22/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Orange County Land Trust Inc does

Mission

The mission of the orange county land trust is to preserve water resources, critical habitat, rural and urban farmland, scenic viewsheds and ecosystems in and around orange county for the benefit of all who depend on them.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Issued "open space news" newsletter, obtained additional land. Sponsored educational conference and annual dinner. Continued to maintain land and easements.through the course of each year, orange county land trust works to protect farmland and open space.

    $532,541 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $532,541.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($503k) Expenses 100 ($436k) Net assets 100 ($7.1M)2018 Revenue 83 ($416k) Expenses 109 ($475k) Net assets 98 ($7.0M)2019 Revenue 177 ($891k) Expenses 116 ($504k) Net assets 105 ($7.4M)2020 Revenue 98 ($493k) Expenses 121 ($526k) Net assets 105 ($7.5M)2021 Revenue 186 ($935k) Expenses 120 ($524k) Net assets 110 ($7.8M)2022 Revenue 103 ($516k) Expenses 107 ($468k) Net assets 108 ($7.7M)2023 Revenue 231 ($1.2M) Expenses 163 ($712k) Net assets 116 ($8.2M)2024 Revenue 358 ($1.8M) Expenses 273 ($1.2M) Net assets 125 ($8.9M)
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Revenue (358)Expenses (273)Net assets (125)Peer revenue range

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 $7.7M to $10M (+36%).

$7.2M
$7.0M
$7.7M
$7.7M
$7.8M
$7.7M
$10M
$8.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2020 18% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’17
−$59k
’18
$388k
’19
−$33k
’20
$411k
’21
$48k
’22
$451k
’23
$610k
’24
4.2
months of
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

James Delaune

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2121202224181518
Joined·+3+0+3+3+1+0+4
No longer listed·3111731
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $280k → $378k.

8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

35% 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 ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC.

33%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 53% · 2019 29% · 2020 70% · 2021 36% · 2022 39% · 2023 40% — 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

40% of ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $484k on record.

Federal$484k
grants $484kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$484k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC?
ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,225,646 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($730,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,225,646 in grants to ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC?
THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC 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.

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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 31 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