North Carolina · Nonprofit
TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY
TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,217,818 to it, the largest being CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ($6,710,856). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Tar River Land Conservancy does
Mission
Tar River Land Conservancy preserves the natural and cultural resources of the tar river basin and surrounding areas by working in partnership with private landowners, public agencies and others to protect rural land, riparian corridors and ensure clean water.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Purchased fee simple title to 85.1 acres in person county, which land provides buffers to rock fork branch.
Received a donation of 595 acres in edgecombe county, which land provides buffers to swift creek.
Received a donation of a .35-acre parcel, which provides road access to the picture creek nature preserve located in granville county
Tar River Land Conservancy achieved its land protection mission through the following actions: 4)received a donation of 35.86 acres in nash county, which land provides buffers to meadow branch. 5)opened picture creek nature preserve located in the town of stem, in granville county, which provides 2.6 miles of hiking trails. 6)built and maintained hiking trails on nature preserves in granville county through the work of a crew of dedicated local volunteers and other groups. Trlc offers for public use 14.8 miles of hiking trails at five nature preserves in granville county. 7)trlc staff and volunteers hosted three guided hikes, which were available to the public, on trlc protected properties in granville and person counties. 8)monitored conservation easements and fee properties held by trlc. 9)monitored 64 conservation easements held by the state of north carolina. 10)worked to improve the water quality for fishing creek in halifax county by completing the close out of two animal waste lagoons, which are being converted them to fresh water ponds. The deq permit for the lagoons was rescinded. Also, a number of remaining buildings were demolished with the waste removed and the…
$1,302,162 spent$52,566 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,302,162.
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 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $25M (+41%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 56% · 2023 6% · 2024 44% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $173k → $30k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY’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
TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 49% · 2022 56% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Defense$3.3M
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 TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY?
- TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,217,818 to it, the largest being CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ($6,710,856). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $7,217,818 in grants to TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY?
- CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA is the largest funder on record, with $6,710,856 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAR RIVER LAND CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 12 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