Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY
THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $471,100 to it, the largest being Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation ($171,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $471k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County does
Mission
To ensure the perpetual preservation and stewardship of open space, natural resources, historic sites, and agricultural lands throughout southern chester county
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Effective april 29, 2022 the assets of the organization were merged with the assets of brandywine red clay alliance - see schedule n
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Land conservation, historic preservation and stewardship. Approximately 1,500 acres preserved.
$130,014 spent98% of program spendingTlc offers year-round educational programming and community outreach events. Environmental education programs for children and adults, regardless of age, ability, or socioeconomic status take place primarily on our partner preserve, the bucktoe creek preserve. Program offerings include: full moon owls prowls, wild foraging series, drop in on nature, free time adventures in nature, hawk watch, edible and medicinal plant walks, astronomy nights and girl scout and cub scout badges.workshops and classes on sustainability take place at our new leaf sensory garden. This is a demonstation site for home composting, bee keeping and vegetative bio swales. Community outreach fundraising events are held at our stateline woods preserve. Events include our annual run 4 conservation, solstice celebrations, and the wild and scenic film festival. Education outreach and events serve allmembers of a diverse community.
$2,000 spent$1,731 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,014.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $0 (−100%).
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 45% · 2018 72% · 2019 81% · 2020 8% · 2021 9% · 2022 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Ed Camelli
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $101k → $5k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY’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
THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 66% · 2019 36% · 2020 35% · 2021 42% · 2022 99% — 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
29% of THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 FY2022, 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
73% of THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY
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 Pennsylvania
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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
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: 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 THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY?
- THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $471,100 to it, the largest being Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation ($171,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $471,100 in grants to THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY?
- Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $171,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 19 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