New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire (New Hampshire) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,554,398 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($3,667,422). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire does
Mission
To protect and sustain the significant lands in our community for clean water, fresh food, outdoor recreation, healthy forests, and wildlife.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
LAND CONSERVATION SELT conserved or assisted in the protection of 1,706 acres of land through 19 projects in 2025. Conservation work continued to focus on four key areas Living Landscapes, Clean Drinking Water, the Pawtuckaway to Great Bay Greenway initiative, and Farmland for the Future. Projects include acquisition of fee lands and easements and several assists for partners. Under our Living Landscapes initiative, SELT completed ten projects. Highlights included the donation of 100 acres in Deerfield as an addition to the Robert Rix Family Forest, and the donation of several conservation easements, including one in Kingston and Hampstead on 36 acres and another on 18 acres in Madbury and Durham. In Portsmouth SELT completed a conservation easement know as Portsmouths 100-acre Woods, which was a 94-acre project conserving the largest privately owned un-conserved tract within the City. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O
$5,908,181 spent84% of program spendingLAND MANAGEMENTAt the end of 2025, SELT owned 47 distinct fee-owned properties, an increase of two over the prior year, with additional acreage added to two existing fee-owned properties, bringing the total acreage owned to 12,166. SELT focused on installation of new trail systems, maintenance of existing trails, maintaining fields, invasive plant removal, wildlife habitat, forest health, and addressing trespasses and encroachments. Some of the projects completed include Commercial timber harvests at Stonehouse Forest in Barrington, Ahl Memorial Forest in Kingston, and Piscassic Greenway in Newmarket and Newfields to increase forest species diversity and health as well as wildlife habitat. An All-Persons trail was created at Birch Ridge Community Forest in New Durham, providing a nearly 4,000-foot long packed-gravel surface with a gentle slope, allowing people of all abilities to enjoy a walk in the woods and mountain views, including Mt. Washington. Approximately four acres of young forest was re-cleared at the Pawtuckaway River Reservation CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O.
$401,911 spent$123,470 earned by the program6% of program spendingOUTREACH EDUCATION In 2025, SELT continued the All-Terrain Learning Adventures ATLAS program, a nature-based education initiative designed to connect children aged 5-12 to the natural world through partnerships with the Epping and Raymond school districts and the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. SELT provided over 900 students from Epping Middle School, Epping Elementary School, and Lamprey River Elementary School opportunities for child-led wild play, allowing room to creatively discover a passion for the natural world while encouraging an evergreen love of nature and cultivating the next generation of conservationists. SELT also hosted the inaugural Camp ATLAS for two weeks serving 40 youth. SELT continued its intentional expansion of engagement programming with over 3,900 attendees at over 90 volunteer workdays, field trips, programs, and major events hosted at SELT properties and the Mathey Center. Major events included the Wild Scenic Film Festival, TrailFest, and the Annual Meeting and Conservation Celebration. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O
$423,922 spent6% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 235,858, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 2,220 EASEMENT STEWARDSHIP SELT monitored all 238 conservation easements held at the beginning of the year to ensure continued protection of the natural resources of these conserved lands. We also worked with our partners to support their monitoring of the 44 easements for which we hold the executory interest back up to the primary easement holder. Monitoring was completed through a combination of site visits and the use of remote imagery. SELT also hosted three tailored workshops and published a semi-annual Everlasting newsletter for easement landowners. SELT remains committed to addressing all trespasses or violations, no matter how small or large, in an amicable way to ensure a successful resolution where a positive relationship remains between us, the landowners and neighbors. One major violation was identified during 2025 and is being addressed in cooperation with the landowner. Program Service Expenses 34,929, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 FOREVER FARMS LLC Forever Farms LLC, a single member limited liability company for which SELT is the sole member, owns a house and 236-acres of farmland and forests…
$324,656 spent$2,220 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,058,670.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $28M to $33M (+20%).
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 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 54% · 2023 32% · 2024 17% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Brian Hart
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $777k → $1.4M.
15 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 44% · 2019 50% · 2020 47% · 2021 65% · 2022 35% · 2023 60% — 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
48% of Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
72% of Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.4M
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 Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Forever Farms LLC · disregarded
- Flexibility for the Future LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire: 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 Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire?
- Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire (New Hampshire) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,554,398 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($3,667,422). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $8,554,398 in grants to Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,667,422 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 49 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