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PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC

PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,617,532 to it, the largest being EJK Foundation ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$1.1M
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation Inc does

Mission

The mission of the Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation is to increase the pace, quality, and permanence of voluntary land and water conservation in the Gulf of Mexico region.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Project Assistance Fund Program is a landscape-level approach to conservation that seeks to remove barriers to project development by aligning partner goals and resources to quicken the pace and permanence of land and water conservation while addressing upfront challenges and critical gaps in project execution.

    $367,291 spent$673,342 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  2. Reforestation Program (Arbor Day Foundation Grants) restores forested landscapes that provide ecosystem and climate resiliency, linking habitats to preserve species biodiversity and provide wildlife corridors. A watershed-scale or landscape approach, its focused on connecting and restoring a diversity of habitats for species and resource benefit while recognizing the economic importance and long silviculture across the region. Host to some of the highest biodiversity of terrestrial and aquatic species, these habitats aid in carbon sequestration, maintain natural hydrologic cycles, and improve water quality and quantity.

    $53,193 spent$53,193 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  3. Natural Disaster and Recovery Program (Hazard Fuel Load Reduction) works with our conservation members, federal, state, and local partners, and landowners to facilitate resource recovery. From land clearning, mulching, thinning, vegetation management, and installation of fire breaks, to reforestation effors, we partner with these organizations and provide the best possible support to our communities and landowners during their time of greatest need.

    $1,682,044 spent$1,794,456 earned by the program
    76% of program spending
  4. Capacity fund

    $123,974 spent$123,974 earned by the program
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,226,502.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($142k) Expenses 100 ($128k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2023 Revenue 737 ($1.0M) Expenses 746 ($958k) Net assets 349 ($119k)2024 Revenue 2131 ($3.0M) Expenses 2048 ($2.6M) Net assets 1479 ($506k)2025 Revenue 2014 ($2.9M) Expenses 1734 ($2.2M) Net assets 3304 ($1.1M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (2014)Expenses (1734)Net assets (3304)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 2023 to 2024, from $450k to $2.0M (+346%).

$34k
$450k
$2.0M
$3.2M
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 12% · 2024 58% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’22
$85k
’23
$386k
’24
$624k
’25
17
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

Vance Crain

Executive director

Board chair

Matt Singer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed131313
Joined·+0+5
No longer listed·05
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $300k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC’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

PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

43% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC.

37%
largest funder
87%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 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

PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

MD
DE

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

’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $700k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve16.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)172% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.

Federal$5.7M
grants $5.7Mcontracts $0
21
23
24
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$5.1M
  • Environmental Protection Agency$540k

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 PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC?
PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,617,532 to it, the largest being EJK Foundation ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,617,532 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC?
EJK Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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