Vermont · Nonprofit
STOWE LAND TRUST
STOWE LAND TRUST (Vermont) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,516,707 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,100,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Stowe Land Trust does
Mission
The Stowe Land Trust is dedicated to the conservation of scenic, recreational, and productive farm and forest lands for the benefit of the greater stowe community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Stewardship programin fy25, slt advanced major trail accessibility improvements at the mill trail, completing design, permitting, and key bridge and trail upgrades as part of phase 1 of a new universally accessible trail system. Slt also finished adaptive bike enhancements at kirchner woods and began planning a new connector trail at the adams camp connector property to link the stowe recreation path with the adams camp network.to support growing stewardship needs, slt engaged an americorps lands and trails steward and continued annual property monitoring, landowner engagement, and trail and habitat management. The stewardship program worked with 98 volunteers who collectively donated over 454 hours of their time to taking care of slt protected lands, completing monitoring, trail work, and invasive species management.slt also hosted a stewardship summer series which engaged 135 participants in 315 hours of educational programming focused on habitat, invasive species, and forest stewardship.land protection programslt completed the permanent protection of the 85-acre adams camp connector, strengthening wildlife habitat, riparian health, and regional trail connectivity. Slt also…
$1,146,880 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,146,880.
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 $5.5M to $7.5M (+37%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2024 13% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of STOWE LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Tom Rogers
Executive director
Board chair
Amy Stewart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $77k → $563k.
15 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 STOWE LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
STOWE LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 STOWE LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 48% · 2019 86% · 2020 27% · 2021 50% · 2022 42% · 2023 37% — 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
64% of STOWE LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
83% of STOWE LAND TRUST'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M 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
STOWE LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STOWE LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Grants$1.2M
- Other Grants$10k
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 STOWE LAND TRUST
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STOWE LAND TRUST: 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 STOWE LAND TRUST?
- STOWE LAND TRUST (Vermont) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,516,707 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,100,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STOWE LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $9,516,707 in grants to STOWE LAND TRUST, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STOWE LAND TRUST?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STOWE LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 53 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