Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION
PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,037 to it, the largest being FOX FOUNDATION INC ($215,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $569k
- Net assets
- $-30350
What Pinchot Institute for Conservation does
Mission
The Pinchot Institute for Conservation is a public benefit non-profit corporation. We are passionate about protecting nature and creating breakthroughs that result in more sustaianable ecosystems and economies. The institute is non-partisan and inclusive,and works in collaboration with partners in the public and private sectors on new thinking, policies, and actions that, in gifford pinchot's words, result in "...the greatest good, for the greatest number, in the long run."
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
U.s. Conservation easement program: work the institute carries out in cooperation with the u.s. Natural resources conservation service (nrcs) assists in the acquisition, assessment, monitoring, and protection of conservation easements throughout the u.s. The program has three components involving three senior staff members with expertise in all phases of the federal government's easement program. Their work helps assure that former and current working lands conserved through taxpayer investments, are appropriately valued, managed, and protected.
$542,364 spent$737,418 earned by the program92% of program spendingU.s. Forest service: a project was funded and commenced in 2024 to provide guidance to forest service officials by bringing stakeholders together for fire planning, response and restoration after the wildfire response. The objective is to improve communication and coordination on a geographic locality level, and achieve better integration of stakeholder needs and improve results.
$50,000 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $592,364.
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 2021 to 2022, from $450k to $316k (−30%).
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 54% · 2018 38% · 2019 85% · 2020 85% · 2021 80% · 2022 85% · 2023 91% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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 4 funders, grant income fell $155k → $35k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION’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
PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 50% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“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
10% of PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION'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
PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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.
Against its field
PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$7.7M
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 PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION: 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 PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION?
- PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,037 to it, the largest being FOX FOUNDATION INC ($215,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $569,037 in grants to PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION?
- FOX FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PINCHOT INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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