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SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC

SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,648 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($48,263). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$582k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$77k
Net assets
$542k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Southwest Conservation District Inc does

Mission

Water & soil conservation

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conservation and education info and workshops, pubs, books at nominal costs and district wide natural resource and conservation efforts, and provides technical personnel and guidance to landowners, municipalities, etc.

    $478,890 spent
    93% of program spending
  2. Sand and development program makes recommendations to owners of sites with sediment and erosion control problems and to storm water retro fit in impaired watersheds

    $25,739 spent
    5% of program spending
  3. Watershed planning and implementation

    $8,101 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $512,730.

02The 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 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($103k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 48 ($32k) Expenses 15 ($15k) Net assets 141 ($58k)2019 Revenue 301 ($201k) Expenses 31 ($32k) Net assets 549 ($226k)2020 Revenue 224 ($149k) Expenses 72 ($75k) Net assets 731 ($301k)2021 Revenue 390 ($260k) Expenses 201 ($208k) Net assets 858 ($353k)2022 Revenue 451 ($301k) Expenses 204 ($210k) Net assets 1078 ($444k)2023 Revenue 527 ($352k) Expenses 290 ($300k) Net assets 1204 ($496k)2024 Revenue 713 ($476k) Expenses 432 ($446k) Net assets 1277 ($526k)2025 Revenue 873 ($582k) Expenses 548 ($566k) Net assets 1317 ($542k)
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Revenue (873)Expenses (548)Net assets (1317)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $58k to $226k (+290%).

$41k
$58k
$226k
$301k
$353k
$444k
$496k
$526k
$542k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$37k
’17
$17k
’18
$168k
’19
$75k
’20
$52k
’21
$91k
’22
$52k
’23
$30k
’24
$16k
’25
11
months of
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.

Board chair

Maryrose Palumbo

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920212022202320242025
Listed557777
Joined··+2+1+0+0
No longer listed··0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC’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

SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC.

63%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.

CT
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve11.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC?
SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,648 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($48,263). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $76,648 in grants to SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC?
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,263 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 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