Colorado · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC
SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,564,662 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($730,903). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Southern Plains Land Trust Inc does
Mission
The mission of the southern plains land trust is to create and protect a network of shortgrass prairie preserves which ensure a future for all native animals and plants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land acquisition and management: manage lands, maintain fences, restore and protect wildlife on splt preserves.
$4,638,569 spentof which $4,040,000 as grants$3,334,600 earned by the program96% of program spendingAnimal management expenses: related to the management of bison, wild horses, donkeys and longhorn cattle on heartland ranch.
$113,091 spent2% of program spendingOutreach activities including education programming on splt preserves and participation in area festivals and conferences.
$74,461 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,826,121.
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 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $4.5M (−78%).
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 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 42% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC’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. 0 of the last 5 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 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $27k → $347k.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
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 SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 66% · 2019 43% · 2020 51% · 2021 42% · 2022 42% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC has grown faster than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST 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 SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC?
- SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,564,662 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($730,903). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,564,662 in grants to SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $730,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 35 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