Colorado · Nonprofit
THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC
THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,600 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($43,100). 3 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
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $23k
What The Trust for Land Restoration Inc does
Mission
The mission of the TLR is to conserve and protect significant scenic sites and historic landscapes in the San Juan Mountains of SW Colorado, specializing in the restoration, conservation, and protection of ecologically significant properties that have been degraded by human activity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Consulted with private landowners, government entities and other non-profit land trusts to plan for new conservation easements, including a conservation easement for the Marble Wetlands Preserve with the Aspen Valley Land Trust and to monitor conservation easements held by the Trust for Land Restoration.
$4,558 spent29% of program spendingPerformed environmental analysis, liability management, planning, public outreach and public education to aid property owners and government agencies to achieve restoration of 54 acres of wetlands adjacent to the Town of Marble.
$10,119 spent64% of program spendingServe as the County of Ouray's agent to: negotiate donation of Idarado Houses to the County by the Idarado Mining Company; negotiate a Special Use Permit with the United States Forest Service; and oversee stabilization and preservation activities at the Houses and other historic preservation sites; coordinate additional conservation acquisition opportunities.
$1,153 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,830.
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 2023 to 2024, from $30k to $338k (+1018%).
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.
96% of THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patrick Willits
Executive Director
Board chair
Bob Risch
Chair Pro-Tem
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $12k.
2 of 7 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 TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION 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 TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 63% · 2022 65% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION 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 $44k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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
THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC: 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 TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC?
- THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,600 to it, the largest being WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($43,100). 3 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 TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $108,600 in grants to THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC?
- WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $43,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TRUST FOR LAND RESTORATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 7 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