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THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC

THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,507 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$795k
Net assets
$4.5M
11/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What The Nebraska Land Trust Inc does

Mission

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Acquiring, holding and maintaining conservation easements and other interests in land located in nebraska.

    $847,079 spent$72,752 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $847,079.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($540k) Expenses 100 ($256k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 560 ($3.0M) Expenses 1033 ($2.6M) Net assets 117 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 57 ($309k) Expenses 98 ($252k) Net assets 118 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 431 ($2.3M) Expenses 845 ($2.2M) Net assets 138 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 174 ($941k) Expenses 106 ($270k) Net assets 189 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 109 ($590k) Expenses 135 ($346k) Net assets 180 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 912 ($4.9M) Expenses 1857 ($4.7M) Net assets 213 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 237 ($1.3M) Expenses 212 ($541k) Net assets 272 ($3.9M)2025 Revenue 249 ($1.3M) Expenses 367 ($937k) Net assets 310 ($4.5M)
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Revenue (249)Expenses (367)Net assets (310)Peer revenue range

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 $3.6M to $4.4M (+23%).

$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.3M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$3.6M
$4.4M
$4.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2023 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$285k
’17
$385k
’18
$57k
’19
$168k
’20
$671k
’21
$244k
’22
$180k
’23
$738k
’24
$407k
’25
11
months of
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

Jacob Alishouse

Executive director

Board chair

Joe Francis

Chair/audubon society

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1099999121614
Joined·+1+0+0+0+3+7+7+0
No longer listed·20003432
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $15k → $66k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC’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 NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC.

31%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 41% · 2019 57% · 2020 81% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 38% — 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

44% of THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

55% of THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

WI
NE
VA
SC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST 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 Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

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 NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC?
THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,507 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $794,507 in grants to THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC?
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 16 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