Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN
RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,096 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($131,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Rural Land Foundation of Lincoln does
Mission
The preservation of the natural beauties and rural character of the town of lincoln, ma through land conservation and the protection of open space.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, rlf continued exploring land conservation initiatives in the town of lincoln, including monitoring land of conservation interest, developing and maintaining relationships with land owners, developing land planning solutions for open space protection and the location of public trails, and supporting initiatives to educate the town of lincoln about land conservation. Specific rlf accomplishments in 2025 include:acquisition: in may 2024, rlf signed an amended purchase and sale agreement with farrington memorial, inc. For the purchase of 7.6 acres of land in lincoln for $825,000. This land was deeded to rlf in december 2025. Rlf also reached preliminary agreement with farrington on terms for the purchase and conservation of approximately 60 additional acres of land owned by them. A purchase and sale agreement is expected to be signed in the spring of 2026 with closing shortly thereafter. Rlf intends to conserve the land as open space through conservation deed transfers and conservation restrictions.as part of the larger farrington conservation project, rlf signed an option agreement in october 2024 for the purchase of the 20-acre panetta property off page road and cambridge…
$839,651 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $839,651.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.6M to $7.1M (−7%).
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 4% · 2021 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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.
Chief executive
Geoff Mcgean
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Stevenson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $27k → $46k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lincoln Land Conservation Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN raised.
From the IRS filings of RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN’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
RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 78% — diversifying over time.
“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
76% of RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Rural Land Foundation Lincoln Station LLC · disregarded
- Lincoln Land Conservation Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN: 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 RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN?
- RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,096 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($131,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $207,096 in grants to RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $131,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL LAND FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN 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.
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 4 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