North Carolina · Nonprofit
THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC
THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,057,141 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($8,416,247). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Three Rivers Land Trust Inc does
Mission
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ongoing procurement of land and placement of conservation easements to preserve farmland, scenic cooridors, historic areas, important habitat and water quality buffers. Ongoing monitoring of 34,757 acres of preserved land and 271 conservation easements.
$3,707,231 spent$145,342 earned by the program98% of program spendingProduced and distributed over 3,576 copies of newsletters informing and educating the public about past, present and future preservation efforts in the region.
$37,783 spent1% of program spendingEducated the public regarding land conservation by sponsoring workshops, producing videos, making presentations to civic clubs and organizing hikes and canoe trips to over 800 people during the year.
$31,669 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,776,683.
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 $33M to $39M (+18%).
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 25% · 2019 13% · 2020 48% · 2021 22% · 2022 41% · 2023 47% · 2024 53% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.2M.
14 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 62% · 2019 87% · 2020 83% · 2021 81% · 2022 88% · 2023 85% — 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
50% of THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
90% of THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST 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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of the Interior$300k
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 THREE RIVERS 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 THREE RIVERS LAND 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 THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC?
- THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,057,141 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($8,416,247). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $12,057,141 in grants to THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $8,416,247 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THREE RIVERS LAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 47 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