Maryland · Nonprofit
PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR
PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,278 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $850k
What Patuxent Tidewater Land Tr does
Mission
Patuxent Tidewater Land Trust preserves rural lands for current and future generations through conservation easements, monitoring activities, and environmental stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Easement Acquisition: PTLT continued to acquire new easements to protect property in Southern Maryland in perpetuity. Two new easements were established in 2025 protecting 240.58 additional acres of land and bringing our total land protected to 7,115.65 acres. PTLT continues to work with the State of Maryland's Rural Legacy (RL) Program, St. Mary's County, and the Department of Defense Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program to fund projects. PTLT continued working with landowners to place easements on properties within the Huntersville Rural Legacy Area in mid St. Mary's County Maryland. Five easements projects are in work and scheduled to close by December 2026.
$74,134 spentof which $18,000 as grants84% of program spendingEasement Monitoring: PTLT uses a volunteer team of monitors under the oversight of a volunteer Monitoring Coordinator and the Executive Director. This group identifies and evaluates potential issues on existing easements and completes, files, and distributes monitoring reports for each property. These reports are submitted to the easement co-holders and sponsors. This labor-intensive effort, while not consuming significant funding, is critical to ensuring that the conservation value of the properties is maintained and no easement violations occur. The Maryland Rural Legacy program grants PTLT funds to monitor properties for which they are co-holders.
$2,475 spent3% of program spendingEasement Compliance: Due in part to our thorough monitoring program, PTLT has had few easement compliance issues and tries hard to resolve these amicably with landowners. Our volunteer board members investigate, document, and resolve each issue. PTLT holds reserve funds received from the Rural Legacy program in a restricted account and holds insurance to address any violations that would require legal or technical expertise. PTLT continues to follow up with landowners on potential easement issues to help them address emerging problems in a timely manner. PTLT has a policy of requiring easement properties to be free of dumping prior to closing. This ensures our monitors can spot dumping changes on the properties easier. As part of easement compliance, PTLT is also keeping notes on inland erosion which has become an increasing issue in the Huntersville area after Hurricane Isaias in 2020. Examples of compliance issues that have been successfully addressed are vegetative buffer restoration, erosion remediation, and removal of material in violation of dumping restrictions.
$11,545 spent13% of program spendingPTLT received the Rural Legacy administrative fee from 4 easement completions in 2025, totaling $75,016.72. This is to be used for future acquisition, monitoring, compliance, and administrative costs.
$0 spent$75,017 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,154.
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 2022 to 2023, from $419k to $2.0M (+385%).
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: 2017 95% · 2018 96% · 2019 90% · 2020 99% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 80% · 2024 3% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200 → $35.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR’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
PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 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
91% of PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR?
- PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,278 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,278 in grants to PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 4 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