North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC
THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,025 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $810k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What The Working Lands Trust Inc does
Mission
To sustain north carolina's food and fiber supply - from the appalachians to the outer banks - through the conservation of our working farms and forests
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ongoing procurement of conservation easements to preserve farmland, scenic corridors, historic areas, important habitat and water quality buffers. Ongoing monitoring of 20 plus conservation easements covering more than 1,000 acres of preserved land
$712,195 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $712,195.
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 2021 to 2022, from $22M to $632k (−97%).
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 98% · 2018 9% · 2019 66% · 2020 66% · 2021 81% · 2022 86% · 2023 96% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC’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. 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
Mark Megalos
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $125k → $26k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 WORKING LANDS 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 WORKING LANDS TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 WORKING LANDS TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 71% — 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
THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k 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 WORKING LANDS TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.8M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$20.0M
- Department of Agriculture$14.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE WORKING LANDS 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 WORKING LANDS TRUST 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 WORKING LANDS TRUST INC?
- THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,025 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $810,025 in grants to THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WORKING LANDS TRUST INC?
- IMPACTASSETSINC 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 WORKING LANDS TRUST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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