Iowa · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST
SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $645,809 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $539k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $646k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Sustainable Iowa Land Trust does
Mission
To permanently protect iowa land to grow healthy food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land protection: during 2024, silt's land protection program advanced four major conservation projects and strengthened its pipeline for future closings. The land acquisition committee reviewed 7 potential propertiesmost notably hauter (158 acres), fenimore (14.75 acres), nelson-vaux (5.7 acres), and tjark/steger (156 acres). While formal closings are slated for 20252026, staff also performed monitoring visits on all 16 existing properties and overhauled our sustainability guidelines, recordkeeping templates, and lease-agreement forms to ensure long-term stewardship and operational consistency.
$307,072 spent$49,664 earned by the program47% of program spendingGeneral outreach: silt broadened its reach in 2024 with a mix of signature events, publicationjs, and digital campaigns. -hosted silt fest 2024 at living history famrs, drawiing 150+ attendees for a fundraising dinner, live auction, and raffle prizes-published and mailed the 2023-24 annual report to 1,800 stakeholders and made it available online-issued monthly email updates to 3,200+ subscribers-revamped silt.org-introducing new forms, streamlined navigation, and updated farm profiles-garnering 8,500 unique vistors, a 20% increase year-over-year. -expanded social-media engagement: facebook reached up 395 %, interactions up 97 %, links clicked up 495 %, visits up 152 %, and followers up 75 %; paid ads delivered 682,409 impressions (an 894 % lift).-launched our inaugural corporate partners campaign
$271,468 spent42% of program spendingLandowner outreach in 2024, silt delivered hands-on education and direct assistance to landowners through consultations, farm events, and virtual programming:-regional coordinators conducted over 75 one-on-one meetings covering site visits, legal options, acep-ale, and farm-management planning.-organized five small farm summer open houses at silt and partner farms, featuring guided tours, cooking demonstrations, and easement seminars; turnout outpaced 2023 levels.-produced a "resources for sustainable food farmers" webinar attended by 68 participants; the recorded presentation was distributed via youtube and partner networks.-developed and shared outreach materialspamphlets for prospective farmers, recordkeeping checklists, and lease-agreement templatesto streamline landowner decision-making around permanent protection.
$70,303 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $648,843.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $3.5M to $4.1M (+17%).
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: 2019 7% · 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 40% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST’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. 2 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
Horsey Breanna
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $138k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST’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
SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 62% · 2020 73% · 2021 70% · 2022 49% · 2023 72% — 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
29% of SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.4M
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 SUSTAINABLE IOWA 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST?
- SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $645,809 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $645,809 in grants to SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE IOWA LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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