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ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST

ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,999 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($961,821). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$8.9M
Revenue FY2024
40
Funders on record
$2.8M
Grants received
$51M
Net assets
22/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%

Against its field

ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin94% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($316k) Net assets 100 ($40M)2020 Revenue 37 ($1.2M) Expenses 138 ($436k) Net assets 103 ($41M)2021 Revenue 76 ($2.4M) Expenses 109 ($345k) Net assets 106 ($42M)2022 Revenue 11 ($335k) Expenses 126 ($399k) Net assets 104 ($42M)2023 Revenue 21 ($668k) Expenses 180 ($568k) Net assets 106 ($42M)2024 Revenue 284 ($8.9M) Expenses 166 ($525k) Net assets 128 ($51M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (284)Expenses (166)Net assets (128)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 2% · 2022 25% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.8M
19
$729k
20
$2.0M
21
$64k
22
$100k
23
$8.3M
24
5.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $298k → $182k.

8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)70% 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 ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% 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 ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST.

35%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 44% · 2019 31% · 2020 67% · 2021 29% · 2022 52% · 2023 47%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

33% of ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

70% of ORLEANS CONSERVATION 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 $835k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states.

WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
KY
FL

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $373k on record.

State$373k
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22
24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$373k

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 ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 6%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORLEANS CONSERVATION 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST?
ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,999 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($961,821). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,760,999 in grants to ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $961,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing