Kansas · Nonprofit
Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc
Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,828 to it, the largest being Kansas Livestock Association ($245,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $345k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $901k
What Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc does
Mission
To preserve Kansas' ranching heritage and open spaces for future generations through the conservation of working landscapes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ranchland Trust of Kansas, Inc., (RTK) was created and governed by working ranchers to provide voluntary conservation tools, primarily easements which limit building development or conversion, through the lens of working agriculture. In partnership with voluntary landowners, RTK currently protects 17,440 acres of working landscapes for future generations. RTK maintains a multi-year waitlist of voluntary landowners wishing to protect working landscapes from development and loss of grazing habitat. Ranchland Trust of Kansas works to ensure the easement goal of each landowner and grant remains intact through annual onsite visits. RTK also conducts public outreach through various print and digital media outlets, public events and conservation award activities.
$81,498 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $81,498.
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 2019 to 2020, from $501k to $906k (+81%).
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 27% · 2021 64% · 2022 51% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Barth Crouch
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $98k → $28k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc’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
Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 91% — 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
50% of Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
94% of Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$15.2M
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 Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kansas Livestock Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc: 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 Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc?
- Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,828 to it, the largest being Kansas Livestock Association ($245,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $339,828 in grants to Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc?
- Kansas Livestock Association is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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