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RESTORING LANDS INC

RESTORING LANDS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,943,625 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($1,297,317). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.1M
Revenue FY2025
47
Funders on record
$3.9M
Grants received
$24M
Net assets
27/47 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

RESTORING LANDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin52% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($923k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 336 ($3.1M) Expenses 118 ($1.2M) Net assets 113 ($17M)2019 Revenue 227 ($2.1M) Expenses 113 ($1.2M) Net assets 119 ($18M)2020 Revenue 218 ($2.0M) Expenses 85 ($884k) Net assets 127 ($19M)2021 Revenue 125 ($1.2M) Expenses 85 ($881k) Net assets 130 ($19M)2022 Revenue 547 ($5.1M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 154 ($23M)2023 Revenue 201 ($1.9M) Expenses 361 ($3.7M) Net assets 142 ($21M)2024 Revenue 127 ($1.2M) Expenses 117 ($1.2M) Net assets 144 ($21M)2025 Revenue 551 ($5.1M) Expenses 234 ($2.4M) Net assets 161 ($24M)
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Revenue (551)Expenses (234)Net assets (161)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 59% · 2018 29% · 2019 15% · 2020 2% · 2021 20% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 42% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of RESTORING LANDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$115k
17
$1.9M
18
$924k
19
$1.1M
20
$276k
21
$4.0M
22
$1.9M
23
$38k
24
$2.7M
25
4.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $116k → $474k.

13 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)70% 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 RESTORING LANDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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

RESTORING LANDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

78% 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 RESTORING LANDS INC.

33%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 36% · 2019 41% · 2020 56% · 2021 39% · 2022 64% · 2023 31%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

41% of RESTORING LANDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

70% of RESTORING LANDS INC'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

NH
WI
NY
DC
TX

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

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 47 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 RESTORING LANDS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $451k on record.

Federal$451k
grants $451kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$246k
  • Department of Agriculture$205k

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 RESTORING LANDS INC

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 14%Fundraising 7%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESTORING LANDS 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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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 RESTORING LANDS INC?
RESTORING LANDS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,943,625 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($1,297,317). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RESTORING LANDS INC have?
IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $3,943,625 in grants to RESTORING LANDS INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RESTORING LANDS INC?
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,297,317 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RESTORING LANDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 47funders 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