Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST
THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,112,016 to it, the largest being THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION ($1,025,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatioshared funderslocal
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio match
- The Malcolm C Damuth Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income fell $63k → $49k.
8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 TRURO CONSERVATION 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
THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 90% · 2019 45% · 2020 95% · 2021 65% · 2022 45% · 2023 37% — 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
32% of THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
61% of THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $407k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatioshared funderslocalMA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Malcolm C Damuth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John S Kiewit Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fields Pond Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Summer Hill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Coalition of Land Trustsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Momentum Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Space Institute Land Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bafflin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST?
- THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,112,016 to it, the largest being THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION ($1,025,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,112,016 in grants to THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST?
- THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,025,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing