Colorado · Nonprofit
ORIENT LAND TRUST
ORIENT LAND TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,743 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($32,324). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Orient Land Trust does
Mission
For the education, enjoyment, and well-being of current and future generations, Orient Land Trust: --promotes a positive clothing-optional experience at all properties including valley view hot springs, orient mine, and everson ranch; --preserves the viewshed, including land acquisition; --protects natural, wild, agricultural, and historic resources in the northern san luis valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visitor services: in 2025, Orient Land Trust provided unique recreational opportunities for tens of thousands of day and overnight visitors, including lodging and camping services. Visitors enjoyed many attributes of the properties including soaking in hot springs, naturist clothing optional opportunities, hiking, viewing wildlife, geology and bat conservation. The hot springs property is a wonderful model for off-grid hydroelectric power. Volunteer camp hosts help visitors.
$1,230,429 spent$1,396,915 earned by the program90% of program spendingNatural resource conservation, protection and land stewardship: Orient Land Trust protects over 2200 acres of land including new lands acquired over the last few years. Olt protects riparian areas, indigenous species and eliminates invasive weeds. The reservoir and menders at the ranch are home protecting endangered species of fish.
$109,371 spentof which $1,950 as grants8% of program spendingEducational programs: olt provided educational tours with visitors participating in astronomy, bat, hydroelectric and geology programs. Thousands of guests participated in these programs in 2025.
$27,343 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,367,143.
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 $4.5M to $4.8M (+7%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 28% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of ORIENT LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Jon Florey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $111.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 ORIENT 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
ORIENT LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 ORIENT LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of ORIENT LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
89% of ORIENT LAND TRUST'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ORIENT LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ORIENT 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORIENT LAND 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 ORIENT LAND TRUST?
- ORIENT LAND TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,743 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($32,324). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORIENT LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $62,743 in grants to ORIENT LAND TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORIENT LAND TRUST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $32,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORIENT LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 8 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