Alabama · Nonprofit
THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC
THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,329,062 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ($346,861). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $52M
What The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc does
Mission
The land trust leads regional and community collaborations that plan, preserve and provide stewardship for green space in north alabama. Our mission is to preserve and protect north alabama's scenic, historic, and ecological resources through conservation, advocacy, public recreation, and environmental education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During fy 2024, the land trust of north alabama (ltna) continued programs in furtherance of our mission to protect and preserve land and its legacies for conservation, public recreation, advocacy, and conservation education. The ltna conserved an additional 67 acres in 2024, bringing the total conservation properties to over 10,146 acres. Ltna also provided a wide range of nature-based education and recreation opportunities, including field trips, on-campus school programs, and guided hikes. All 10 of our nature preserves are open daily for people to enjoy activites including hiking, biking, wildlife viewing, photography, picnicking, bird watching, and fishing. Two of our nature preserves also allow horseback riding opportunities.
$1,000,934 spent$11,204 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,000,934.
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 2019 to 2020, from $30M to $36M (+19%).
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 17% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC’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. 0 of the last 8 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
Joseph Paull
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $17k → $232k.
12 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 35% · 2019 32% · 2020 39% · 2021 28% · 2022 35% · 2023 41% — 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 THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
59% of THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC'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 $546k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $783k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC?
- THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,329,062 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ($346,861). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,329,062 in grants to THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC?
- Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville is the largest funder on record, with $346,861 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing