Vermont · Nonprofit
Putney Mountain Association Incorporated
Putney Mountain Association Incorporated (Vermont) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,763 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($45,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $755k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Putney Mountain Association Incorporated does
Mission
Putney Mountain Association believes there is a vital link between humans and the natural environment. Our primary objectives are to strengthen that link by preserving undeveloped land in southeastern Vermont for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations and to protect the natural habitat and wildlife corridor of the area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Acquisition - In April 2025, PMA purchased a 159 acre parcel in Dummerson. Raised a total of 49,486 in private donations and grant awards of 476,465. A management plan was developed, the parcels boundaries were identified and marked, and it was enrolled in Vermonts UVA Program. The property is now permanently protected from development, wildlife and plant habitat is preserved and public access for outdoor recreation is guaranteed.
$44,210 spent66% of program spendingStewardship - Stewardship of 1,085 acres of forestland and wetlands. Two mechanical treatments of an 8-acre barberry infestation were conducted on a Westminster parcel. An ecological assessment of 160 acres in Brookline was completed including natural community mapping, invasive plant inventory and an inspection of water-bars and old skid roads. Fourteen white ash trees including Vermonts largest white ash were inoculated against emerald ash borer. Stewardship includes payment of all related property taxes, insurance and land management program.
$10,531 spent16% of program spendingTrails - Purchased, assembled, and installed a new solar charger to power the surface well water pump that provides water for sheep that graze on the Putney Mountain summit. A trail reroute project on the main summit trail one of the busiest trails in SE VT was completed. Sixteen interpretive signs aluminum laminate with text, PMA logo and graphics were placed on the Summit Loop and West Cliff Trail and have been very well received by hikers. Finally, PMA has purchased decking for a boardwalk on the Libbys Way trail. The decking was purchased from a local sawmill and the wood is naturally resistant without chemical treatments. The new trail will bypass a severely eroded road which is muddy in the spring and after rain and is near a wetland.
$11,966 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $66,707.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.1M (+49%).
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: 2018 68% · 2020 8% · 2021 52% · 2022 48% · 2024 63% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Putney Mountain Association Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Margaret Mott
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $7k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Putney Mountain Association Incorporated’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
Putney Mountain Association Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 Putney Mountain Association Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Putney Mountain Association Incorporated's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% 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
Putney Mountain Association Incorporated draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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
Putney Mountain Association Incorporated 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
Government funding Putney Mountain Association Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $996k on record.
- Grants$996k
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 Putney Mountain Association Incorporated
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Putney Mountain Association Incorporated?
- Putney Mountain Association Incorporated (Vermont) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,763 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($45,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Putney Mountain Association Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $192,763 in grants to Putney Mountain Association Incorporated, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Putney Mountain Association Incorporated?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $45,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Putney Mountain Association Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 9 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