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PRINCETON LAND TRUST

PRINCETON LAND TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$37k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$2.9M
1/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Princeton Land Trust does

Mission

The Princeton Land Trust was formed to preserve the natural beauty and rural character of the town of princeton.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The land trust cooperates with the town, land owners and others in providing suitable places for recreation and for conservation of land, water resources, plants and wildlife; preserves areas of conservational significance to the town; promotes responsible development of real estate and sound conservation practices in order to preserve the town's natural beauty; acquires by gift, purchase, or otherwise real property and uses the property in a way the trustees see fit to carry out our mission for the benefit of the town of princeton.

    $13,217 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,217.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($9k) Expenses 100 ($9k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 486 ($43k) Expenses 392 ($35k) Net assets 111 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 3777 ($335k) Expenses 188 ($17k) Net assets 124 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 420 ($37k) Expenses 76 ($7k) Net assets 125 ($2.9M)
2021202220242025
Revenue (420)Expenses (76)Net assets (125)

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 $2.3M to $2.5M (+11%).

$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$2.9M
2021202220242025
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.

2021
2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32
’21
$8k
’22
$318k
’24
$30k
’25
169
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.

2021202220242025
Listed13131515
Joined·+0·+0
No longer listed·0·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $500.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 PRINCETON 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

PRINCETON LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 PRINCETON LAND TRUST.

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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

87% of PRINCETON 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

’17
’18
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like PRINCETON 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

23% of spending goes to programs.

Program 23%Management 77%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 1 state

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRINCETON 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 PRINCETON LAND TRUST?
PRINCETON LAND TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PRINCETON LAND TRUST have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,000 in grants to PRINCETON LAND TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRINCETON LAND TRUST?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC 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 PRINCETON LAND 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.

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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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