Georgia · Nonprofit
SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY
SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,415 to it, the largest being NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $578k
What Sandy Springs Conservancy does
Mission
Build partnerships that create, conserve and connect parks and greenspace in sandy springs, georgia. Our actions to further our mission connect people to nature and each other for enhanced physical and mental health. Our board of directors interacts with city officials and key staff, other like-minded nonprofit organizations (path, trust for public land), garden clubs, neighborhood groups and homeowners' associations, developers and property owners to ideate, identify and act on opportunities for new greenspace, civic spaces and trail connectivity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sandy Springs Conservancy creates: in 2024, the Sandy Springs Conservancy allocated 20,000 to advance projects that will provide outdoor enjoyment for the community for years to come. Specific actions include: creating a construction grant for the springway trail investment in improvements at abernathy greenway south funding and mobilizing volunteer workers for garden renovations at the sandy springs library and other groups through micro grants ss conservancy continued steering the implementation of the sandy springs trail master plan. At year end segment 2a of the springway trail was close to completion. This segment will be a community catalyst for continued investment in and construction of our trail system. It is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2025. Focused involvement includes: community representative for chattahoochee riverlands focused on increasing access via trails and new parks to the chattahoochee river. Participation in creating old riverside park with natural amenities along the river. Allen road park from 3 to 4.5 acres to enhance walking trails and playing fields.
$40,048 spent45% of program spendingSandy Springs Conservancy conserves and preserves: while actively involved with seeking, designing, and negotiating property acquisitions and rights of way for parks, trails, and greenspace, we provide seed monies for research and planning new community assets. We hold of our assets for future contributions towards additional trail segments, park acquisition, or expansion, these funds will be depolyed as the need for major construction funds are identified.
$21,349 spent24% of program spendingSandy Springs Conservancy educates: the conservancy creates knowledge and enthusiasm for parks, trails, and greenspace. We encourage community involvement with our thought leaders dinner, park app, website, newsletters, and social media messaging. We also conduct a trail blazers program. Our 2024 trail blazer program brought close to 195 walkers to 9 different parks in sandy springs, led by guides who shared their knowledge and expertise. Promote city of sandy springs and other local organizations, non-profits and events through participation in sandy springs roundtable. Annual mailer, impact report 2024, sent in november as a community educational tool and review of accomplishments. Thought leaders dinner with the theme of "a springway celebration". We conducted guided tours of segment 2a and morgan falls overlook park. Community involvement through events, volunteering, interaction with the city of sandy springs, businesses and service organizations. We had two opportunities to share information about parks and trails at our city's farmers markets.
$27,598 spent31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,995.
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 $584k to $535k (−8%).
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.
71% of SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY’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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $11k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Sandy Springs Society Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY’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
SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 95% · 2019 45% · 2020 58% · 2021 96% · 2022 80% · 2023 90% — 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
25% of SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
88% of SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY holds deeper cash reserves 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 SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY?
- SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,415 to it, the largest being NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $64,415 in grants to SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY?
- NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANDY SPRINGS CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 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