Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE
PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,839 to it, the largest being THOMAS O BROWN FOUNDATION ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports 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.
- National Park Foundationshared funders
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Page Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 8% · 2021 20% · 2023 23% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $10k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE’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
PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 46% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 304 organizations that share them.
- National Park Foundationshared fundersDC · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Page Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Yellowstone Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- EJK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Defenders of Wildlifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The New-Land Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 444s Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earthshareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Lands Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
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 PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.5M
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 PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE: 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.
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 PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE?
- PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,839 to it, the largest being THOMAS O BROWN FOUNDATION ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $211,839 in grants to PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE?
- THOMAS O BROWN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC LANDS ALLIANCE 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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